Have you ever left your mobile phone at home? If this has been the case, how did you feel when you put your hand in your bag and see that your mobile phone is not with you? You may have just gotten angry and forgotten after a few minutes, but for many people, this can be […]
Nomophobia: are you afraid of not taking your mobile with you? Read More »
The world of phobias is sometimes complicated when related to other health disorders. This is the case of obesophobia, a problem closely linked to eating disorders such as anorexia or bulimia that can cause very serious consequences. It’s not just fear; it’s the entire sociocultural context that rejects extra pounds. In our dictionary of phobias we tell you everything
Obesophobia, the irrational fear of gaining weight or fat people Read More »
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.
When the idea of infinity scares you: do you have apeirophobia? Read More »
Fear is a universal and adaptive emotion, which protects us from dangers and allows us to adapt to the environment in which we live. However, when that fear is paralyzing, too intense, disproportionate and/or irrational, we no longer speak of fears but of specific phobias. You can develop a phobia of practically any situation or object
Eisoptrophobia or fear of looking in the mirror: how do you know if you have it? Read More »
The mind is so complicated that many times it surprises us with unsuspected phobias. There are more common phobias and rare phobias; there are phobias that are better understood and phobias for which you cannot find any explanation, but all of them must be made visible because it is an important emotional disorder. On this
Clinophobia: the irrational fear of sleeping Read More »
It is necessary to go to the dentist regularly to guarantee good oral health. It is not merely a matter of aesthetics but of health, so it is important. However, some phobias such as Dentophobia can cause us to postpone or even avoid going to the dentist out of fear. Or out of panic. We tell you everything about Dentophobia
Dentophobia: Are you afraid of the dentist? Read More »
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
Fear of taking a test or an exam: testophobia and its consequences Read More »
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 »
Among the rare and curious phobias, ephebiphobia or ephebophobia has called our attention, a fear of adolescents and young people whose origin is found in social and cultural stereotypes. Adolescents can inspire many things in you, but are young people so dangerous that they inspire terror and have to be avoided? There is much to say about this disorder that
The fear of adolescents exists and it is called Ephebiphobia (how to overcome it) 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 »
