Fear is an instinct that helps us manage self preservation. It is mostly an unconscious feeling. You feel it when your body is trying to warn you about something you must have encountered previously, and had associated it with some level of pain or hurt.

As infants, people come with only a few basic fear instincts, for example the fear of a sudden loud sound, the fear of falling. Much of the other kinds of fears are learnt during the course of life.

Broadly, fears are of two types: external fears and internal fears.

External fears are those whose sources are from the outside of people. For example: fear of animals (including insects), plants, things, fear of spaces (heights, enclosures) etc.
Internal fears are fears that are influenced by external events, but which create internal belief systems. Internal fears have to-some-extent been referred to as low self-esteem issues.

The quality of self esteem a person has is associated with the type of exposures or treatment the person received during the critical period of character development; which is within early childhood and during teenagehood. Those timeframes are mostly spent with parents or guardians. Fears created by parents or guardians in children can be stored in their nonconscious minds all their lives. For example, if a child got much more rebukes and criticisms than praises for tasks accomplished, the child can grow up with a sense of inadequacy, poor confidence (inferiority complex in essence).

However, a behavior that is learned can also be unlearned. To unlearn such, it would be necessary to understand what caused the learning in the first place. Also, to consider if the cause is still active and within proximity etc.

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