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Avoidance of situations where eye contact, touching the eye, or having the eyes touched is likely or required. While this can work in short-term situations, long-term avoidance can worsen ommetaphobia by providing a justification for the fear. In some cases, an ommetaphobe may try to actively prevent a triggering situation from happening. [2]
Tell me thou lov’st elsewhere; but in my sight, Dear heart, forbear to glance thine eye aside: What need’st thou wound with cunning, when thy might Is more than my o’er-press’d defense can bide? Let me excuse thee: ah, my love well knows Her pretty looks have been mine enemies; And therefore from my face she turns my foes,
And circled in the midst of all was the blank-eyed face of the Gorgo (Gorgon) with her stare of horror, and Deimos (Dread) was inscribed upon it, and Phobos (Fear). Homer, Iliad 15. 119 ff:"So he [Ares] spoke, and ordered Deimos (Dread) and Phobos (Fear) to harness his horses, and himself got into his shining armour."
Gorgons were dread monsters with terrifying eyes. A Gorgon head was displayed on Athena 's aegis , giving it the power both to protect her from any weapon, and instill great fear in any enemy. Gorgon blood was said to have both the power to heal and harm.
The term scopophobia comes from the Greek σκοπέω skopeō, "look to, examine", [21] and φόβος phobos, "fear". [22] Ophthalmophobia comes from the Greek ὀφθαλμός ophthalmos, "eye". [23] Another, lesser known, term for this disorder is spotligectophobia, a humorous blend of the spotlight effect and the combining form -phobia ...
Dry eyes. You might blame dry eyes on mundane things like the weather, but in reality inflammation may be the culprit. Specifically, it could be inflammation in the cornea or certain glands ...
"Wash me well, hold me to your breast, protect me from the earth (lying against) your breast." [5]— Ḫattušili I, Hittite king (17th century BCE), probably addressing his wife or favorite concubine and expressing his fear of death while being gravely ill.
In 2001, an 18-year-old committed to a Texas boot camp operated by one of Slattery’s previous companies, Correctional Services Corp., came down with pneumonia and pleaded to see a doctor as he struggled to breathe.