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  2. Claustrophobia - Wikipedia

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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 ...

  3. Hodophobia - Wikipedia

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    Hodophobia is an irrational fear, or phobia, of travel. [2] [3]Hodophobia should not be confused with travel aversion. [4] [5]Acute anxiety provoked by travel can be treated with anti-anxiety medication.

  4. 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 ...

  5. Death anxiety - Wikipedia

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    Death anxiety is anxiety caused by thoughts of one's own death, and is also known as thanatophobia (fear of death). [1] This anxiety can significantly impact various aspects of a person's life. [2] Death anxiety is different from necrophobia, which refers to an irrational or disproportionate fear of dead bodies or of anything associated with ...

  6. Anxiety threshold - Wikipedia

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    Social anxiety disorder is one of the most frequent anxiety disorders. Both threshold and sub-threshold social anxiety disorders are associated with a higher risk for many other disorders. [ 4 ] Anxiety sensitivity is a characteristic that can be described as the fear of anxiety.

  7. Submechanophobia - Wikipedia

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    To qualify for a diagnosis of a specific phobia such as submechanophobia, subjects must display several symptoms and fulfill a list of requirements. [3] [5] [6] Unreasonable and excessive fear; Immediate anxiety response; Avoidance/extreme distress; Life-limiting; 6+ month duration of fear; Not attributable to another disorder

  8. Panic attack - Wikipedia

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    Panic attacks are associated with many different symptoms, with a person experiencing at least four of the following symptoms: increased heart rate, chest pain, palpitations (i.e. feeling like your heart is pounding out of your chest), difficulty breathing, choking sensation, nausea, abdominal pain, dizziness, lightheadedness (i.e. feeling like ...

  9. Phobophobia - Wikipedia

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    Phobophobia comes in between the stress the patient might be experiencing and the phobia that the patient has developed as well as the effects on their life, or in other words, it is a bridge between anxiety/panic the patient might be experiencing and the type of phobia they fear, creating an intense and extreme predisposition to the feared ...