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  2. Fear of flying - Wikipedia

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    Fear of flying is a specific phobia classified as such in the DSM-5. [5] The diagnosis is clinical. It is often difficult to determine if the specific phobia of fear of flight should be the primary diagnosis, or if fear of flying is a symptom of a generalized anxiety disorder or another anxiety disorder such as agoraphobia or claustrophobia. [7]

  3. Entomophobia - Wikipedia

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    Entomophobia may develop after the person has had a traumatic experience with the insect(s). It may develop early or later in life and is quite common among animal phobias. Typically, one has a fear of one specific type of insect. However, in some cases, this fear may encompass all organisms of the phylum Arthropoda. Entomophobia leads to ...

  4. Hodophobia - Wikipedia

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    Hodophobia is an irrational fear, or phobia, of travel. [2] [3] Hodophobia should not be confused with travel aversion. [4] [5] Acute anxiety provoked by travel can be treated with anti-anxiety medication. [6] [7] The condition can be treated with exposure therapy, which works better when combined with cognitive behavioral therapy. [6] [7]

  5. Little-known eating disorder nearly starved a 9-year-old: 'It ...

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    ARFID, or Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder, is defined by the Cleveland Clinic as a condition that limits a person’s food intake. It is recognized in the DSM-5 (the Diagnostic and ...

  6. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g ...

  7. DSM-5 - Wikipedia

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    A revision of DSM-5, titled DSM-5-TR, was published in March 2022, updating diagnostic criteria and ICD-10-CM codes. [52] The diagnostic criteria for avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder were changed, [ 53 ] [ 54 ] along with adding entries for prolonged grief disorder , unspecified mood disorder and stimulant-induced mild neurocognitive ...

  8. Specific phobia - Wikipedia

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    The DSM-5 that the fears should be out of proportion to the danger posed, compared to the ICD-10 which specifies that the symptoms must be excessive or unreasonable. [11] Minor differences have persisted between the ICD-11 and DSM-5. [12] In the DSM-5, there are several types which specific phobia can be classified under:

  9. Emetophobia - Wikipedia

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    [5] It is not clear that this should be termed "anorexia", however. In cases such as this, many emetophobes may also have avoidant/restrictive food intake disorder (ARFID), which is characterized by a general disinterest in food, sensory issues with food (taste, texture, look, smell) or a fear of adverse consequences from eating (vomiting or ...