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Numerophobia. Numerophobia, arithmophobia, or mathematics anxiety is an anxiety disorder, involving fear of dealing with numbers or mathematics. [1][2][page needed] Sometimes numerophobia refers to fear of particular numbers. [3][4] Some people with this condition may be afraid of even numbers, odd numbers, unlucky numbers, and/or lucky numbers.
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 ...
Arithmomania. Arithmomania (12 letters) (from Greek arithmós, "number", and maníā, "compulsion") is a mental disorder that may be seen as an expression of obsessive–compulsive disorder (OCD). [1] Individuals experiencing this disorder have a strong need to count their actions or objects in their surroundings.
4. “I’m here for you.”. This phrase is more than a version of the Friends theme song; it’s one of the most common things to say to lift someone’s spirits. In some ways, this phrase is ...
Problematic social media use is associated with various psychological and physiological effects, [15] such as anxiety and depression in children and young people. [ 16 ] A 2022 meta-analysis showed moderate and significant associations between problematic social media use in youth and increased symptoms of depression, anxiety, and stress. [ 17 ]
Rational-emotive therapy significantly improved scores on all dependent measures (cognition, self-concept, self-esteem, anxiety) except behavior. Results for the subliminal stimulation group were similar to those of the placebo treatment except for a significant self-concept improvement and a decline in self-concept-related irrational cognitions.
People with certain health conditions are advised to be careful with caffeine. “For people dealing with anxiety and other mental issues, caffeine can possible make the symptoms worse since it ...
Shyness affects people mildly in unfamiliar social situations where one feels anxiety about interacting with new people. Social anxiety disorder, on the other hand, is a strong irrational fear of interacting with people, or being in situations which may involve public scrutiny, because one feels overly concerned about being criticized if one ...