Whether fear itself can be feared?

❌ Objection 1 : It would seem that fear cannot be feared. For whatever is feared, is prevented from being lost, through fear thereof: thus a man who fears to lose his health, keeps it, through fearing its loss. If therefore a man be afraid of fear, he will keep himself from fear by being afraid: which seems absurd.

❌ Objection 2 : Further, fear is a kind of flight. But nothing flies from itself. Therefore fear cannot be the object of fear.

❌ Objection 3 : Further, fear is about the future. But fear is present to him that fears. Therefore it cannot be the object of his fear.