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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taphophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Taphophobia is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead. The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as ...

telephone phobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Telephone phobia (telephonophobia, telephobia) is reluctance or fear of making or taking phone calls, literally, "fear of telephone". Telephone phobia is also considered to be a type of Social Phobia ...

thalassophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Thalassophobia is an intense and persistent fear of the sea. Thalassophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. Symptoms for ...

thanatophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Thanatophobia, also known as Necrophobia, is the abnormal fear of dead things (e.g., corpses) as well as things associated with death (e.g., coffins, tombstones). With all types of emotions, ...

traumatophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

According to the DSM-IV classification of mental disorders, the injury phobia, or traumatophobia, is a specific phobia of blood/injection/injury type. It is an abnormal, pathological fear of having ...

turophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Turophobia is the fear of cheese. Sufferers may fear a specific type of cheese or fear cheese all together.

workplace phobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

According to the general definition of specific phobias in DSM-IV or ICD-10, workplace phobia can be stated when an actual or imagined confrontation with the workplace or certain stimuli at the ...