There are phobias that are related to traffic, but it is not necessary that you are driving the car to suffer from it. As a pedestrian, you may also experience an irrational fear when crossing a street. And if they run over you? In our phobia we talk about agyrophobia or the fear of crossing […]
Are you afraid to cross the street? Causes of agyrophobia Read More »
We need good sleep to have restful sleep and for the cycle of our life to continue. We need a good sleep to wake up the next day with all the energy and this need is well known by people who suffer from insomnia and cannot sleep. But there is a group of people that it is
Somniphobia or when sleeping is a nightmare Read More »
The world of phobias sometimes surprises us with very particular fears and it is very tempting to take it as a joke. This is the case of penteraphobia or fear of the mother-in-law, a phobic disorder with very negative consequences for the life of the person who suffers from it and which many people find unlikely. In our dictionary of phobias
Penteraphobia: Are you afraid of your mother-in-law? Read More »
There are phobias whose stimulus can be an animal, an object, an environmental situation or even a feeling. Actually, everything can be a reason for phobia, since it is a disorder in which any stimulus is considered dangerous. We are surprised by atazagoraphobia, which we talk about in our dream dictionary and which is the fear of oblivion. What is
The fear of being forgotten or being forgotten is called atazagoraphobia. Read More »
They say that fear is free, but in reality most of the time it is an anxiety disorder. We are talking about phobias, that irrational and excessive fear that can condition your life and cause you more problems than it might seem at first. And the world of phobias is so wide that fear can arise from
Herpetophobia (fear of reptiles and amphibians): more common than you think Read More »
There are many animals that you would not have at home as pets. There are animals that cause you a certain rejection, respect or fear and that you would prefer to have far away and, luckily, you do not find them every day. Zoophobia encompasses a set of phobias specific to animals and one of them is Selacophobia. What
Selacophobia: the surprising explanation for the fear of sharks Read More »
Who is not afraid of pain? Some phobias surprise us because they stimulate fear, because we find it curious and because in many cases we don’t see any danger or reason to fear it. This is not the case with algophobia, since we can perfectly understand the fear of pain and, in fact, it is
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Not all the terms that include the word phobia are phobic disorders; some are prejudices and excessive rejection towards something or, more frequently, towards someone. This is the case of Aporophobia or fear of the poor, an increasingly frequent social problem that happens not only by ignoring the most disadvantaged people, but also by despising them. A
Aporophobia: hate, rejection and fear of the poor Read More »
For many people it is unthinkable, but chromatophobia or the fear of colors exists. This is the case of Melanophobia, a disorder in which the color black acquires prominence and the character of extreme danger. It is true that we are dealing with a color that is culturally associated with the unfortunate, but it does
Melanophobia: this is the fear of the color black Read More »
Many phobias are related to food and that adds more dangers because to the psychological consequences of any phobic disorder is added the physical risk of eliminating a certain food from the diet. Can you live without eating meat? Vegans do it that way, but in that case it is not a phobia. We tell you everything about Carnophobia
Carnophobia (fear of meat): a very common gastronomic phobia Read More »
