There are people who love winter and enjoy the snow, but there are other people who find the cold quite uncomfortable and reject them. And others directly suffer from Cryophobia or an irrational and excessive fear of cold. It is a disorder closely related to those phobias to meteorological phenomena that can greatly limit the life of […]
Cryophobia or phobia of cold: winter is coming Read More »
Do you like the color purple? It may be that you are a person in love with purple, violet or purple that you usually dress in that color, that your accessories always have a violet touch or that purple is the protagonist of your home decoration. Or maybe you can’t see this color even in
Porphyrophobia: characteristics of the fear of the color purple Read More »
What are you afraid of? You may suffer from a phobia or you may have heard of the most frequent ones. But the world of phobias is full of surprising fears that leave us wondering about the possible consequences of this problem. This is the case of koumpounophobia or fear of buttons, which we talk about in our dictionary of phobias.
The uncontrollable fear of buttons is called koumpounophobia Read More »
All phobias are to be taken seriously, even though some of them seem impossible to us. Suffering from a phobic disorder is more than just having certain hobbies, it is a problem that can greatly condition your life and that is why you have to try to overcome them as soon as possible. In our
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Phobic disorders related to eating are especially dangerous since their consequences also extend to the field of health. This is the case of food Neophobia or the fear of trying new foods, a disorder that is very common in childhood but can reach adulthood if not treated in time. We tell you everything about food Neophobia in our
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There are many phobias related to death, with the idea of eternity and with everything related to the sacred, which is why uranophobia or fear of heaven does not surprise us so much. Understanding heaven as that paradise we arrive at when we die, we can understand that the idea can terrify some people or, at least,
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We worry about phobias because they are obstacles to a healthy and happy life. Emotional disorders are misunderstood by people who do not suffer from them, and many phobias are considered hobbies or whims. However, these disorders can make your life very complicated. Discover what is aerophobia or the fear of traveling by plane. If you
Are you afraid of traveling by plane? Maybe you suffer from aerophobia Read More »
Phobias do not cease to amaze us and there is no shortage of those who take it as an excuse to joke. But phobias are not a joke and they can complicate the life of the person who suffers from them. On this occasion, we discover what ablutophobia or fear of washing is and how
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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
Astraphobia (fear of celestial bodies): when the sky gives you panic Read More »
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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