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Claustrophobia is the fear of being closed into a small space. It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in a rather severe panic attack. It is also sometimes confused with Cleithrophobia (the fear of being trapped). [13] Diagnosis of claustrophobia usually transpires from a consultation about other anxiety-related ...
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 ...
The major symptoms of ENS include a sensation of suffocation, nasal dryness, nasal burning, nasal crusting, and an impaired sense of airflow through the nose in patients who have had surgery or injury to nasal turbinates. [13] ENS can greatly reduce a patient's quality of life and many patients struggle to complete activities of daily living.
An experiment with S.M. revealed no fear in response to exposure and handling of snakes and spiders (including tarantulas), a walk through a haunted attraction (Waverly Hills Sanatorium, specifically), or fear-inducing film clips (e.g., The Blair Witch Project, The Shining, and The Silence of the Lambs), eliciting instead only interest, curiosity, and excitement, though she expressed emotions ...
The caregiver accused of suffocating a 5-year-old boy in her care and dumping his body in a sewage drain made her first appearance in Franklin County Municipal Court Thursday morning.. Pammy Maye ...
Death anxiety can mean fear of death, fear of dying, fear of being alone, fear of the dying process, etc. [29] Different people experience these fears in differing ways. There continues to be confusion on whether death anxiety is a fear of death itself or a fear of the process of dying. [30]
Fisher-Price said Thursday it's recalling more than 2 million of its Snuga Swings due to the risk of babies suffocating if the seats are used for sleep. Between 2012 and 2022, ...
No criminal charges will be filed over the death of a 12-year-old boy who suffocated at a North Carolina wilderness camp after staff mandated he stay overnight in a fully enclosed sleeping sack ...