Psychiatry

Psychiatry

The practice or science of diagnosing and treating mental disorders

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Psychiatry

Acousticophobia is best defined as the fear of sound or noise. Typical treatment for this type of phobia may take months or years, and patient might be required to be repetitively exposed into their ...

acrophobia

Health care; Psychiatry

Acrophobia is defined as a fear of heights. Unlike a specific phobia like aerophobia -- fear of flying -- and other specific phobias, acrophobia can cause a person to fear a variety of things related ...

aerophobia

Health care; Psychiatry

Aerophobia, or fear of flying, may be associated with numerous other phobias. Sometimes it appears on its own. The fear of flying is estimated to affect as many as 25% of people, although a ...

aeroacrophobia

Health care; Psychiatry

Aeroacrophobia is also known as an abnormal fear of open high places. Symptoms for this phobia often include excessive perspiration, dyspnea, jolt, sick feeling, incapacity to speak and think ...

aeronausiphobia

Health care; Psychiatry

Aeronausiphobia is also known as the fear of vomiting secondary to sickness. Sufferers of this type of phobia tends to fall sick and majority of treatments or therapies available for aeronausiphobic ...

agateophobia

Health care; Psychiatry

Agateophobia is also known in various names such as maniaphobia, fear of insanity, dementophobia, fear of becoming insane, fear to be alienated and feared madness, and this problem can severely ...

agliophobia

Health care; Psychiatry

Agliophobia is known as an abnormal fear of pain. We all know that pain causes fear, and fear is distressful and can eventually cause pain. This is considered as a vicious cycle. When you are feeling ...