By Tere Ruiz
Very often we turn on the TV and watch the news, read the newspaper or talk to a person who brings bad news about the world or the neighborhood or the country we live in (do you happen to know somebody like that?). After listening to this news or comments about a specific situation, we start to feel fear about what we heard or were told and think of all the horrible things that might happen. Then we wait for the next newscast, or go to internet to research about it. Later we call or meet somebody and tell them what we heard and researched, and that person tells us what he or she has heard about the same topic. Suddenly we realize how worried, fearful, nervous and stressed we are feeling.
Has this ever happened to you? It is very common. Some people call this Collective Fear; everybody talks about something horrible that is happening, it is on TV, in the newspapers, on the internet, in every conversation you have, and every time you hear more and more about it, you feel even worse.
