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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agrizoophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Agrizoophobia is a common term used to describe a fear of wild animals. Many people suffer from agrizoophobia, especially those who were raised in isolated urban areas. This is particularly true of ...

autophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Autophobia, is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated. Sufferers need not be physically alone, but believe that they are being ...

bacteriophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Bacteriophobia, or Mysophobia is a term used to describe a pathological fear of contamination and germs. Someone who has such a fear is referred to as a mysophobe. The term was introduced by Dr. ...

batrachophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Fear of amphibians. The term batrachophobia has also been recorded in a 1953 psychiatric dictionary.

chaetophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Chaetophobia is fear of hair. Sufferers fear may be associated with human hair and / or animal hair. They fear people / animals with an excess amount of hair. They may also fear the hair on their own ...

catoptrophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Catoptrophobia, or Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, "ghost") is a kind of specific phobia involving a morbid fear of mirrors and one's own reflections. Catoptrophobia ( form the word catoptric ...

chemophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Chemophobia literally means "fear of chemicals". It is most often used to describe the assumption that "chemicals" (i.e., man-made products or artificially concentrated but naturally occurring ...