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- Author: Lissa Rankin M.D.
- ISBN: 1401944272
- Language: English
- Genre: Christian Self Help, Emotional Mental Health, Healing,
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- Page: 336
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The PHYSIOLOGY
of FEAR
The only thing we have to fear is fear itself.
— FRANKLIN D. ROOSEVELT
Eight-year-old April heard glass shattering down the hall of
the single-wide trailer. She knew it was just the beginning of
yet another one of those nights when Mom got out of control,
as did the men she liked to drink with. April tried to run away,
out into the woods in front of her house. But her lungs
clamped down, and she was so short of breath before she even
started running that she knew she had already lost this fight.
The next thing she knew, a strange man was coming toward
her, and her body was wracked with indescribable pain.
April doesn’t remember anything else from that night. But
she does remember that, soon afterward, her mother vanished.
No explanation. No apologies. No good-bye. April tried to
convince her little brother that their mother wasn’t ever
coming back, but he stood at the back of the couch and
watched the door for weeks.
After her mother walked out, fear began to dominate April’s
life even more. She stopped trusting even close friends and
social workers who tried to help. She lay awake at night,
terrified that one day someone would take her away and
separate her from her brother. Sleep eluded her. On the rare
occasions when she did sleep, imaginary men chased her in
her dreams. No matter how creative she got with her hiding
places, the dream invaders always captured her.
Soon April’s body began to decompensate as well. She
passed out often and shook a lot, almost as if she was having
seizures. Specialists ordered lab work, neurologists ordered
brain scans and EEGs, and a cardiologist, who diagnosed a
heart murmur, hooked April up to a portable heart monitor she
wore 24 hours a day. She was officially diagnosed with
“reactive airway disease”—a variant of asthma—and
prescribed half a dozen breathing medications meant to help
with her light-headedness. But in spite of a variety of
diagnostic tests and treatments, her symptoms persisted,
baffling her doctors.
As April got older, she continued to live in a constant state
of fear, immersing herself in seven different forms of martial
arts, obsessed with becoming strong enough to protect herself.
Fear convinced her to seek specialized protection training in a
facility that focused on weapons instruction, evacuation
scenarios, and hand-to-hand combat. She learned how to get
into the minds of dangerous people, so she could protect others
as a high-security bodyguard.
Every day, she strapped on a gun to go to work, willingly
throwing herself in the line of fire on behalf of her clients. But
even though April had become a highly skilled “executive
protection agent,” the fear didn’t go away. If anything, she
only grew more fearful, constantly looking over her shoulder,
afraid to turn her back to anyone, certain that danger followed
wherever she went.
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