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"What are you afraid of? If your name is &amp;quot;S.M.&amp;quot; a woman documented only by her initials in medical journals has baffled the scientific community because a brain injury has left her with no fear--zero, zilch. How would your life change without fear? Researchers are baffled by a woman known only as &amp;quot;S.M.&amp;quot; who, after a rare brain injury, cannot experience fear. She feels other normal emotions like happiness, sadness and joy, but when she&amp;#x27;s watching a scary movie or sees a rat scurry across the sidewalk or a creepy guy coming toward her--things that might spook the rest of us out--she merely shrugs. You see, nothing scares her. Of course, fear is a normal and healthy thing to experience in moderation--it&amp;#x27;s why we don&amp;#x27;t go running out into the middle of the street or make choices that might be dangerous. And yet, I can&amp;#x27;t help but wonder what life would truly be like without it! Freeing? More exciting? For a lot of people who are paralyzed by fear, the answer could be yes. And perhaps by studying this woman&amp;#x27;s rare conditions, docs can help understand fear better and give us better ways to deal with it. Be honest: If you couldn&amp;#x27;t feel fear, how would your life change? For the better or worse? More reading: *Are you afraid of childbirth? *Are you afraid of the dentist? Apparently many women are! *What&amp;#x27;s your phobia? Here&amp;#x27;s mine... More Ways to Get Glamour Visit Shopglamour.com for cute stuff starting at just $10! Enter the latest Glamour sweepstakes! Follow us on Twitter Add us to your iGoogle homepage Photo: Rex Features"^^<http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema#string>
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