Do you like the kisses? Kissing is an act of love and affection. It might seem that everyone likes kisses, giving them and receiving them, but it is not so. There are people who suffer from filemaphobia, which is nothing more than an irrational and excessive fear of kissing. Such people try by all means to avoid what other people so […]
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When we talk about some phobias, it is common to hear comments in a joking tone, but a phobic disorder is no joke. It happens, for example, with ergophobia or fear of work, a horrible problem that goes far beyond not liking your job or that your boss makes your life impossible every morning. Do you want to know
I have a horrible fear of work, do I suffer from ergophobia? Read More »
What are you afraid of? We can be afraid of many things, including that general fear of uncertainty in which we live. That fear can lead to an anxiety disorder and can also lead to more than one. Anxiety, fear and phobia are closely related but they are not the same. As anxiety is already an old acquaintance, we
Differences between phobia and fear: are you suffering from anxiety or a basic emotion? Read More »
Many phobias are difficult for us to understand because the stimulus, even if it is specific, goes outside the sphere of the usual. This is the case of agate phobia or the fear of going crazy or madness. Who hasn’t ever felt panic at the idea of going crazy? Who has not thought in a moment of mental confusion that
Agateophobia is the fear of going crazy. Read More »
There are phobias that seems more logical to us than others, although some are very curious and we didn’t even know they existed. This is the case of vicaphobia or fear of witches, a fear that has certain logic until it becomes a phobic disorder that complicates your life. What is vicaphobia? Vicaphobia is the fear of witches, witchcraft,
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What are you afraid of? The world of phobias is sometimes very surprising to us, although it seems almost normal to be afraid of spiders, of flying, of snakes, or we even normalize disorders such as agoraphobia. However, other phobias are more difficult for us to understand. This is the case of xanthophobia or fear of
Xanthophobia or fear of the color yellow: Are you afraid of the color of ‘bad luck’? Read More »
Did you know that 96% of families have at least one mobile phone? And that 77% of people who access the Internet do so through this device? This is confirmed by the National Institute of Statistics with its data. However, it is not just that we have a mobile phone: we have become addicted to it. As a result of this addiction,
How long could you be without a mobile? Nomophobia and its symptoms Read More »
The Chinese community has been installed in our country and throughout the world for years and they continue to arouse certain suspicions. Now more, because the fact that the first news we had of the coronavirus was in China has made chino phobia spread faster than the. The Chinese are in the crosshairs and, although it is
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It is clear that all human beings cause some anguish and uncertainty about the end of life, but when this anguish is extreme and irrational it can become a mental disorder. If, for example, you notice a lot of anxiety when attending a funeral or your heartbeat skyrockets when you see on television that there has
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