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Plane accidents such as the collision above Reagan National Airport can trigger aerophobia, the fear of flying. Here’s how to manage the phobia. A flying phobia affects more than 25 million ...
An Iberia 747-200. Fear of flying is the fear of being on a flying vehicle, such as an airplane or helicopter, while it is in flight.It is also referred to as flying anxiety, flying phobia, flight phobia, aviophobia, aerophobia, or pteromerhanophobia (although aerophobia also means a fear of drafts or of fresh air).
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 ...
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]
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A clinically diagnosed extreme fear of flying, known as aerophobia or aviophobia, is rare: Some estimates put it as low as 2.5% of the population. But as much as 40% of people say they have ...
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Epic! is an American kids subscription-based reading and learning platform. It offers access to books and videos for targeted at children ages 12 and under. [1] The service can be used on desktop and mobile devices. [2] Epic! was founded in 2013 by Suren Markosian and Kevin Donahue [3] and launched in 2014. [4]