Arachnophobia, claustrophobia, trip phobi. You will have heard of all these irrational fears and, in fact, it is possible that you suffer from them too. These types of disorders, which can manifest in very different ways, are more common than one might think at first. But how does a phobia develop? How do you get to the point of […]
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Do you like wine? It is one of the most appreciated drinks and they say that it has many health benefits, as long as you do not drink it in excess. But there are people who fear wine. Yes, as you read, the fear of wine exists and it is called oenophobia. Do you want to
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What for some is a pleasure, for others is an unpleasant moment characterized by anxiety. Some phobias can be very surprising, adding the misunderstanding of others to the problems that any phobic disorder already causes. On this occasion we talk about coitophobia or fear of sex. What is coitophobia? Coitophobia is the fear of sex, of having
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Animals are often the object of phobia. There are specific phobias towards a specific animal and there is also a more general phobia towards all kinds of animals such as zoophobia. In the case of agrizoophobia, the stimulus is wild animals, which is still a rare disorder due to the scarce presence of these animals
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Phobias aroused by some animals are frequent and they do not surprise us too much, but it is convenient to distinguish between phobia and repulsion, because being disgusted by spiders is not the same as being afraid of them. The same occurs with mice and rats, which sometimes cause rejection and other times fear in what
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Some phobias can be let go because they do not complicate the daily life of the person who suffers from them too much, but there are others who must be tried to be overcome as soon as possible. This is the case of those phobias that are related to meteorological phenomena, circumstances that we can in no way
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Who has not ever felt overwhelmed by the immensity of the infinite? While some phobias develop from a specific object, animal or situation, others can arise from feelings or abstract ideas, making them more difficult to identify. In our phobia dictionary we tell you everything about apeirophobia or fear of infinity. What is apeirophobia? Apeirophobia is the fear of infinity.
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Situational phobias arise in certain situations that generate a great deal of anxiety and fear in us. This is the case of testophobia or fear of exams, a disorder of which we can perfectly understand the origin, but not so much its development or its consequences, since testophobia can paralyze you. We tell you everything about this
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Is there anything more natural than the fear of death? Thanatophobia is one of those phobias that do not surprise us because to a greater or lesser extent we all have a certain fear of the idea of dying. However, the fact that this fear of death becomes a phobia means that we are facing a disorder
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Nobody believes that this Friday the 13th Jason will appear to end the lives of those who are in his path. But the truth is that the well-known movie “Friday the 13th” perfectly reflects the fear that some people feel on this very particular day. Friday the 13th is a terrifying day for many people who suffer from: collaphobia.
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