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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 ...
Similarly, someone with chiroptophobia, or fear of bats, might also likewise have nyctophobia due to their association with the night or dark spaces. [citation needed] Exposure therapy can be very effective when exposing the person to darkness. With this method a therapist can help with relaxation strategies such as meditation.
57. Caligynephobia: fear of beautiful women 58. Carcinophobia: fear of cancer ... Chiroptophobia: fear of bats 69. Cholerophobia: fear of anger ... 277. Scelerophibia: fear of bad men, burglars ...
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Many women may get "the ick" from men's actions or appearance. Scientists say the phenomenon is related to a primal instinct to protect women's health that naturally occurs in other primate species.
Women can internalize bias and express it against other women in their workplace, while some might believe that there's not enough room at the top for more than a few women, the researchers noted.
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]
The Huffington Post and YouGov asked 124 women why they choose to be childfree. Their motivations ranged from preferring their current lifestyles (64 percent) to prioritizing their careers (9 percent) — a.k.a. fairly universal things that have motivated men not to have children for centuries.