Phobias

Phobias

A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος,phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding despite the fear, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational.

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tokophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Tokophobia, or fear of childbirth or pregnancy, is a form of specific phobia. Other terms for the condition include tocophobia and parturiphobia.

triskaidekaphobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Triskaidekaphobia (from Greek tris meaning 'three,' kai meaning 'and,' deka meaning 'ten' and phobia meaning 'fear' or 'morbid fear') is fear of the number thirteen; it is a superstition and related ...

trypanophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Trypanophobia is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.

xenophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Xenophobia is defined as the "hatred or fear of foreigners or strangers or of their politics or culture"

ailurophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Ailurophobia is a type of specific phobia - the persistent, irrational fear of cats.

apiphobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Apiphobia (from Latin apis for "honey bee"), melissophobia (from Greek melissa for "honeybee" and occasionally misspelt as melissaphobia), is a fear of bees and a kind of specific phobia.

chiroptophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Fear of bats, sometimes called chiroptophobia, may refer both to a specific phobia associated with bats and to common negative stereotypes and fear of bats stemming from prejudices and ...