Shock!

If you kept watching horror films, would you eventually stop jumping at every moment they catch you off guard?

I want to cut down the amount of times I get shocked by things.

Wasps. When i was a kid I was stung bad, and swole up big. I generated a fear from that.

Now I get shook every time I hear something buzz by my ears.
The wasp itself is not scary, but the noise by my ears I cannot handle.

If I kept listening to buzzing noises and wasps videos, do you think I could get over that?

Is that a way to get over being shocked and shook by stuff?

You gota embrace your fears.
When I was younger, like.. 10? A girl hit me in the head with a stick, and ofcourse I ran all the way home crying n shit thinking my head was busted. I had developed a intense fear of sticks and anyone wielding one in their hand, but then I grew out of it.

I used to be afraid of guns as well, I remember my brother had pulled out his pistol to show it to me, I felt edgy and tense and kept moving away or in circles. until I got one myself then the fear just kinda went away by itself.


As for movies, if you really want to stop getting spooked and jumpy, just memorize the camera angles for when shit happens. The industry pretty much uses the same angles.. that sideways angle for when something comes from behind..etc. The only movie that really creeps me out is ones with high gore though, like saw. **** that.

My dad(not exactly a great role model) let me watch things like texas chain saw massacre when I was around 10. It has led me to be less easily disturbed by "scary" things. I suppose exposure would help you jump less.

Fear of just any buzzing noise due to a traumatic event when you were younger, huh?

There are a few ways you can work towards getting rid of it...You can either try and work through it yourself, or you'll need to make appointments with a psychologist/therapist.

If you plan to work through it yourself, I'd suggest looking at some different types of therapy, such as -> http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exposure_therapy

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The technique involves the creation of a program of steadily escalating steps or challenges (a hierarchy), which can be explicit ("static") or implicit ("dynamic" - see Method of Factors), that work towards a final goal representing a "non-phobic" response. The patient then voluntarily moves through the steps, with a means of terminating each step which is under voluntary control.

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If you want that in English, it's basically a ladder type process where you gradually expose yourself to the thing you're afraid of (such as maybe starting with looking at a picture of a wasp, and continue to do so for a few minutes a day every day until you no longer get a reaction from it, then go one step further. On and on until you're no longer afraid of wasps.)

Now, if you're talking about scary movies and making yourself "immune" from jump scares, it's possible if you watch the same movie over and over to the point where your body knows when and what will happen. You won't be able to make yourself completely immune, because your body gets into a "ready" state when something happens SUDDENLY AND WITHOUT WARNING as a defensive mechanism, so it would be dangerous to completely get rid of that, but you'll be able to lessen the effects for mundane things.