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Tonitrophobia

Anxiety Attacks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:19:16 +0000

Tonitrophobia is basically defined as the fear of thunder. This is actually a phobic condition in which there is great, irrational fear of thunder and associated lightning even though there is just a little or no real threat at all. Typically, the victims of tonitrophobia…

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Tachophobia

Anxiety Attacks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:17:59 +0000

Tachophobia or the fear of speed is actually one of the extraordinary, most common phobias affecting or afflicting countless people nowadays. Tachophobia, just like some other phobias, can badly affect any human life in particular. Normally, a person with tachophobia experiences great fear and some…

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Suriphobia

Anxiety Attacks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:16:46 +0000

Suriphobia is the term normally used to refer to the fear of mice. At times, it is used along with some other terms as musophobia from the Latin word mus for “mouse” and murophobia from the the taxonomic adjective “murine” for the Muridae family associated…

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Snakephobia

Anxiety Attacks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:15:09 +0000

Snakephobia indeed refers to the irrational, persistent fear of snakes. In some cases, it is also called as Ophidiophobia. Typically, the person with snakephobia manifests and experiences his or her irrational, persistent fear in various ways and duration. At times, the fear is there at…

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Scoleciphobia

Anxiety Attacks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:12:51 +0000

Scoleciphobia is basically the irrational, persistent and unwarranted fear of worms. Normally, the fear involved is accompanied by some other unlikely feelings of anxiety, panic, and alarm, but depending on the severity of the condition. And though there is just a little or no actual…

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Phobophobia

Anxiety Attacks — Tue, 25 Mar 2008 19:11:23 +0000

There are actually a good number of people who do not believe until now that there is such thing or condition as fear of phobias. Well, those people may believe it or not, but fear of phobias or simply called as phobophobia is really existing…

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Nyctophobia

Anxiety Attacks — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:33:54 +0000

Nyctophobia is actually the irrational, persistent and unwarranted fear of the dark or of night. Normally, the sufferers of this phobic condition are the children. Well, there are also some young adults out there (but not that much), who despite their age are still afraid…

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Hypsiphobia

Anxiety Attacks — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:32:47 +0000

Hypsiphobia generally refers to the irrational, persistent and unwarranted fear of height. Just like in most phobias, the fear and other similar emotions involved in hypsiphobia like alarm, fright, terror, etc. have a great tendency for an outburst even though there is just a little…

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Hoplophobia

Anxiety Attacks — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:30:42 +0000

Literally, Hoplophobia means irrational fear of firearms, for hoplon actually means weapon and phobia means irrational fear. Normally, for a person to be called a hoplophobic, he or she should possess some signs and symptoms associated with the intense fear of something like a firearm…

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Herpetophobia

Anxiety Attacks — Mon, 24 Mar 2008 11:29:24 +0000

Basically, Herpetophobia is the fear of reptiles and of some other similar creepy, crawly creatures and things. As of the present, herpetophobia is one of the most common phobias afflicting a lot of individuals, particularly children and adolescents. Normally, sufferers do not immediately realized they…

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