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Phobias - What are you afraid of?
The word "phobia" is a term that refers to a group of symptoms brought
on by feared objects or situations.
A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear that causes a person to feel
intense anxiety.
People develop phobias about many things like darkness, social
situations, spiders, or blood. Agoraphobia, one of the most common
phobias, involves the fear of open places. A person with agoraphobia
feels anxious in places where it would be hard to escape, like being
in a crowd, standing in line, being on a bridge or traveling in a car.
In extreme cases, they are so immobilized by fear that they become a
prisoner in their own home.
Phobias are the most common form of anxiety disorders, which affect
people of all ages, at all income levels and in all geographic
locations, according to a study by American the National Institute of
Mental Health (NIMH), between 5.1 and 21.5 percent of Americans suffer
form Phobias. Broken down by age and gender, the NIMH study found
phobias were the most common psychiatric illness among women in all
age groups and the second most common illness among men older than 25.
In some people, the response to a phobia can be fairly mild. For
example, a person who has a phobia about flying might simply avoid
airplanes. In other people, the phobia causes, or arises from,
full-blown panic attacks with symptoms such as shortness of breath,
sweating, irregular heartbeats and the shakes. Just why a person
develops a particular phobia is not always clear. There appear to be
both biological and psychological reasons. Psychologists classify
phobias with other anxiety-caused problems and theorize they are a
response to separation or loss. Heredity appears to play a role, and
so does brain chemistry.
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ablutophobia: washing or bathing
acarophobia: itching
acerophobia: sourness
achluophobia: darkness
acousticophobia: noise
acrophobia: heights
aeroacrophobia: open high places
aeronausiphobia: vomiting secondary to airsickness
aerophobia: drafts, air
aeruophobia: flying
agliophobia: pain
agoraphobia: open spaces
agraphobia: sexual abuse
agrizoophobia: wild animals
agyrophobia: streets or crossing the street
aichmophobia: needles or pointed objects
ailurophobia: cats
albuminurophobia: kidney disease
alektorophobia: chickens
algophobia: pain
alliumphobia: garlic
allodoxaphobia: opinions
altophobia: heights
amathophobia: dust
amaxophobia: riding in a car, or vehicles
ambulophobia: walking
amnesiphobia: amnesia
amychophobia: scratches or being scratched
anablephobia: looking up
ancraophobia: wind
androphobia: men
anemophobia: air drafts or wind
anginophobia: angina, choking or narrowness
Anglophobia: England, English culture, etc
angrophobia: becoming angry
ankylophobia: immobility of a joint
anthophobia: flowers
anthrophobia: people
anthropophobia: people or society
antlophobia: floods
anuptaphobia: staying single
apeirophobia: infinity
aphenphosmphobia: being touched
apiphobia: bees
apotemnophobia: persons with amputations
arachibutyrophobia: peanut butter sticking to the roof of the
mouth
arachnophobia: spiders
arithmophobia: numbers
arrhenphobia: men
arsonphobia: fire
asthenophobia: fainting or weakness
astraphobia: thunder and lightning
astrophobia: stars and celestial space
asymmetriphobia: asymmetrical things
ataxiophobia: ataxia (muscular incoordination)
ataxophobia: disorder or untidiness
atelophobia: imperfection
atephobia: ruin or ruins
athazagoraphobia: being forgotten or ignored
atomosophobia: atomic explosions
atychiphobia: failure
aulophobia: flutes
aurophobia: gold
auroraphobia: northern lights
autodysomophobia: one that has a vile odor
automatonophobia: ventiloquist dummies or wax statues
automysophobia: being dirty
autophobia: being alone or of oneself
aviophobia: flying
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