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  2. Ochlophobia - Wikipedia

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    Ochlophobia ("Fear of Crowds") [1] and demophobia ("Fear of Unruly Mobs") are terms for types of social phobia or social anxiety disorder whose sufferers have a fear of crowds. Sufferers may offer various rationalizations of the phobia, such as the fear being trampled in a crowd, getting a deadly disease from people within the crowd, getting ...

  3. Claustrophobia - Wikipedia

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    Claustrophobia is a fear of confined spaces. It is triggered by many situations or stimuli, including elevators, especially when crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and hotel rooms with closed doors and sealed windows.

  4. Agoraphobia - Wikipedia

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    Agoraphobia is also defined as "a fear, sometimes terrifying, by those who have experienced one or more panic attacks". [11] In these cases, the patient is fearful of a particular place because they have previously experienced a panic attack at the same location. Fearing the onset of another panic attack, the patient is fearful or avoids a ...

  5. 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 ...

  6. Doctors Say This Nighttime Behavior Can Be A Sign Of Dementia

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    Here's how to distinguish "sundowning"—agitation or confusion later in the day in dementia patients—from typical aging, from doctors who treat older adults.

  7. Phobia - Wikipedia

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    A phobia is an anxiety disorder, defined by an irrational, unrealistic, persistent and excessive fear of an object or situation. [7] [8] [9] [1] Phobias typically result in a rapid onset of fear and are usually present for more than six months. [1]

  8. Stadiums are more than a symbol. They are built to exclude ...

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    The new book 'The Stadium' chronicles the interaction of people, places and ideas, segregation both legal and de facto, mingling and isolation, money and power. Stadiums are more than a symbol.

  9. Moral Injury: The Grunts - The ... - The Huffington Post

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    It is not fear but exposure that causes moral injury – an experience or set of experiences that can provoke mild or intense grief, shame and guilt. The symptoms are similar to PTSD: depression and anxiety, difficulty paying attention, an unwillingness to trust anyone except fellow combat veterans.