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Spotligectophobia, scopophobia, scoptophobia or ophthalmophobia is an anxiety disorder characterized by an excessive fear of being stared at in public or stared at by others. [1] Similar phobias include erythrophobia, the fear of blushing. Scopophobia is also commonly associated with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Often ...
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 ...
Chromophobia (also known as chromatophobia [1] or chrematophobia [2]) is a persistent, irrational fear of, or aversion to, colors and is usually a conditioned response. [2] While actual clinical phobias to color are rare, colors can elicit hormonal responses and psychological reactions.
Sacrebleu or sacre bleu is a French expression used as a cry of surprise, irritation or displeasure. It is a minced oath form of the profane sacré Dieu (holy God), which, by some religions, is considered profane, due to one of the Ten Commandments in the Bible, which reads "Thou shalt not take the name of the Lord thy God in vain."
The individual must feel this fear every time they are exposed to deep or open water; The individual either avoids the ocean or other open bodies of water or endure them with intense fear; The individual's fear of large bodies of water limits and interferes with their normal functioning; The individual's fear has been present for six months or ...
Blue light causes people to feel relaxed, which has led countries to add blue street lights in order to decrease suicide rates. [24] A railroad company in Japan installed blue lighting on its stations in October 2009 in an effort to reduce the number of rail suicide attempts, [ 25 ] although the effect of this technique has been questioned. [ 26 ]
Sean “Diddy” Combs’ case might be more damning than the one that saw sex cult leader Keith Raniere sentenced to 120 years imprisonment because of video evidence, experts told The Post.
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]