Sarah Frankel

Psychology 100 003

Blog Assignment #1

5 February 2014

Psychodynamic studying means focusing on the unconscious and early development of people. This is the modern term for psychoanalysis, which takes a look into the early mind. It is the belief that childhood experiences greatly influence the development of later personality. Psychoanalysis emphasizes unconscious conflict and past events and early childhood trauma.

Every since I was young, loud noises such as music at a concert, fire drills, and thunderstorms had always bothered me. I would start to scream and cry whenever I heard any of those noises. No one else growing up with me had these issues and I would get made fun of for this. I feared the days in school when we had routine fire drills and even when there was a small chance for a thunderstorm I would refuse to go outside. This had a huge impact on my life and did not really go away until I got older. I remember my first ever concert. I was four years old and I had no idea what to expect from it. The second the concert started I started to freak out and cry. My dad had to take me outside of the venue and we ended up missing the entire show. That’s what started it all. I did not like being surprised by loud noises. At school I would want to be warned before a fire drill and when there was a thunderstorm, I go into the basement of my home to try and prevent myself from hearing it.

Growing up, this fear I had became a part of me and affected my personality. One moment I could be totally fine, the next I would be panicking. It really affected the people around me too. They would have to constantly worry if I was okay or not. My parents even made me go to therapy to try and get rid of my fear but it did not work out. As I got older I was able to actually grow out of most of these fears. I matured as I got older and realized that there wasn’t anything to be afraid of. Thunderstorms still scare me but not to the extent to which it did when I was younger. When I know a storm is coming, a little piece of me still gets anxious. This is from all of the fear that I had when I was younger and how some of it still stuck with me.

This psychology theory applies to the fears and traumatic events I’ve had when I was little and how even today it is still a part of my life. Maybe as I get older the fear will completely disappear, but I do believe that some of it will still stay with me because that is how my mind perceives it. I was affected by my fears so early on in my life that it is imbedded into my thought processes.