The immensity of the universe becomes a little more encompass able in the sky, but even so it always remains impossible to assimilate. We reflect on the immensity because it is one of the most frequent causes of phobias and is clearly reflected in astraphobia or fear of celestial bodies. Everything we find in the sky when we […]
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We tend to think that phobias are generated by specific and well-defined stimuli such as spiders, enclosed spaces, crowds, or blood. However, there are also phobias in which the abstract and subjectivity come into play and for this reason they are more difficult to detect. Discover in our dictionary of phobias what is cacophobia or the fear
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The world of phobias never ceases to amaze us with excessive reactions to the most varied stimuli. Although the phobia of spiders is more familiar to us, there are others that seem implausible to us, but they do exist. This is the case of chlorophobia or fear of the color green, a disorder that can make your life very
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Animals can be the stimulus that causes. We have seen it on many occasions with spiders, with snakes or even with birds. And it also happens with the fear of fish if you suffer from ichthyophobia. Animals that in principle do not seem to be in any danger, but for people with ichthyophobia they can be a reason for panic. We
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There are phobias that can go unnoticed, but others are very limiting and disabling. This is the case of hafephobia or fear of physical contact with other people. Be careful, because we have all ever felt that feeling of discomfort when they invade our personal space, but it is not always a phobic disorder. We tell you
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New technologies trigger fears of novelty and, therefore, the unknown. But it is not only about new technologies, but about anything that we have to do for the first time. Neophobia is the fear of the new and it is curious that we fear all those new things so much that they are actually the ones
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You are waiting in a public space and suddenly a person sits next to you. You notice how he has a very strong body odor, you think he hasn’t showered in several days and you find it most unpleasant. This is not a phobia, it is something that happens to everyone, but what if this situation causes you
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Fear is an instinct that is useful because it alerts us to danger, but sometimes we overstep the barrier of logic and let fear paralyze us. Fear is the number 1 enemy of happiness and it makes us more vulnerable, but can fear be avoided? At the moment we don’t have the magic cure, but we do have
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There are phobias related to places or spaces. If some are afraid of heights, others are afraid of closed spaces. And also those place that for some are paradise and for others hell, as is the case of fear of the sea when you suffer from thalassophobia. If you are terrified of going to the beach or you cannot
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Sometimes phobic disorders, especially phobias of some animals, seem to have an ancestral origin, more related to biology and survival than to cultural factors. But chiroptophobia or fear of bats belongs to the second group, since it is evident that there is no risk in an encounter with this type of animal. Even so, chiroptophobia needs adequate
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