Fear is the state of mind denoted by a painful emotion.
A frightened person feels his energies drain away by apprehension of a real or imaginary danger which affects his physiological working adversely, and he becomes depressed, dwarfed and degraded. Unfortunately, they are highly susceptible to manipulation, and thus the quality of individual and social life comes to depend on the will of manipulators. To understand their significance, we ought to look at their major features. Fear, as a general rule, is debilitating. By its depressive effect, it lowers one's normal level of thinking and acting.