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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Blood-injection-injury type phobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

According to the DSM-IV classification of mental disorders blood-injection-injury type phobias constitute a subtype of specific phobias. It includes fear of blood (hemophobia), injury phobia and fear ...

Acousticophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Acousticophobia, or Phonophobia is a fear of loud sounds. It can also mean a fear of voices, or a fear of one's own voice. For example, listening to a CD that starts with a minute of silence and then ...

Ablutophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Ablutophobia (from Latin ablutere 'to wash off") is the persistent, abnormal and unwarranted fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning. This phobia is a situational specific phobia. Ablutophobia tends to ...

Batrachophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

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

Coprophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Coprophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of faeces (bowel waste). Sufferers of coprophobia experience anxiety even though they realise their fear is irrational. They go out of their way to ...

Chronophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Chronophobia is described by Pamela Lee as the fear of time. There are three categories of phobia including agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias which includes spiders, snakes, dogs, ...

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 ...