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Approximately 2–5% of the general population has acrophobia, with twice as many women affected as men. [39] A related, milder form of visually triggered fear or anxiety is called visual height intolerance (vHI). [40] Up to one-third of people may have some level of visual height intolerance. [40]
Tokophobia is a significant fear of childbirth. [1] It is a common reason why some women request an elective cesarean section. [3] Factors often include a fear of pain, death, unexpected problems, injury to the baby, sexual problems and a lack of self-belief of the capacity to birth a child. [4]
Specific phobia is an anxiety disorder, characterized by an extreme, unreasonable, and irrational fear associated with a specific object, situation, or concept which poses little or no actual danger. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] Specific phobia can lead to avoidance of the object or situation, persistence of the fear, and significant distress or problems ...
Generalized Anxiety Disorder 7 (GAD-7) [4] [5] Hamilton Anxiety Scale (HAM-A) [6] [7] Hospital Anxiety and Depression Scale; Panic and Agoraphobia Scale (PAS) Panic Disorder Severity Scale (PDSS) PTSD Symptom Scale – Self-Report Version; Screen for child anxiety related disorders; Social Phobia and Anxiety Inventory-Brief form; Social Phobia ...
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 ...
In this study of 50 hydrophobic children around the mean age of 5½ the results were as follows: [2] 2% of parents linked their child's phobia to a direct conditioning episode. 26% of parents linked their child's phobia to a vicarious conditioning episodes. 56% of parents linked their child's phobia to their child's very first contact with water
The Bahamas has “firmly rejected” President-election Donald Trump's proposal to fly deported immigrants out of the U.S. and into the small island nation about 100 miles southeast of Florida ...
Fear of roller coasters, also known as veloxrotaphobia, is the extreme fear of roller coasters.It can also be informally referred to as coaster-phobia. [1]Such a fear is thought to originate from one or more of three factors: childhood trauma, fear of heights, and parental fears that “rub off” on their children. [2]