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FOMO. No, it's some new cereal or chocolate drink. And it's making millennials freak out and desperately try to avoid it. It's Fear of Missing Out . And this new behavior angst is quickly taking a toll on Generation Y—and it’s probably causing damage to your own life, according to newswise.com. Do you have trouble sitting through a movie without obsessively checking your phone? Does your family complain about your constant social media habit? If you panic at the thought of not having a window to the world, you may be experiencing FOMO—which was added to the Oxford English Dictionary in 2013. Living our lives through this virtual filter isn’t really living at all—it only fuels an anxious mindset that we must be ‘missing out,' the web site reports. But it's not just limited to millennials.  I find myself panicking, too, when I can't get to my email or my texts.   With at least 24 percent of teenagers online ‘almost constantly,’ it’s no sur...

In college, when you had an exam coming, did you back away? Or how about when you were about to get married, did you feel the need to move off? According to scientists, these are very natural reactions, at least, initially.  Newswise.com reports that whenever we see something coming that feels threatening , even if just for a moment, we tend to, well, back away. "In our long struggle for survival, we humans learned that something approaching us is far more of a threat than something that is moving away," the Web site explains. This makes sense, since a tiger bounding toward a person is certainly more of a threat than one that is walking away. Though we modern humans don't really consider such fear, it turns out that it still plays a big part in our day-to-day lives. "In order to survive, humans have developed a tendency to guard against animals, people and objects that come near them," newswise.com quotes University of Chicago Booth School of Busine...