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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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 ...

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 ...

Spectrophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

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 meaning using a ...

Stygiophobia

Psychiatry; Phobias

Stygiophobia is the fear of Hell. The word is derived from the Greek words Stygios meaning hell, which is derived from the River Styx over which souls were carried into the underworld, and phobos ...

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 ...

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 ...