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The term scopophobia comes from the Greek σκοπέω skopeō, "look to, examine", [2] and φόβος phobos, "fear". [3] Ophthalmophobia comes from the Greek ὀφθαλμός ophthalmos, "eye". [4] Another, lesser known, term for this disorder is spotligectophobia, a humorous blend of the spotlight effect and the combining form -phobia ...
Asking for help when you're struggling is hard, but courageous, writes Heather Loeb in her Mental Health Matters column. MENTAL HEALTH MATTERS: If struggling, don't fear asking for help. You'll be ...
The people you reach out to aren't saying "No, I won't help you." Your. Shutterstock By Hannah Morgan It's time you toughen up a bit. Rejection is something we are all afraid of! Seldom will you ...
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 ...
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 ...
Sure, it gets the job done as far as a check-in, but sometimes we want more out of an interaction with a friend. According to psychologists, the problem is that this rote exchange sometimes stands ...
Selective mutism (SM) is an anxiety disorder in which a person who is otherwise capable of speech becomes unable to speak when exposed to specific situations, specific places, or to specific people, one or multiple of which serve as triggers.
Psychological projection is a defence mechanism of alterity concerning "inside" content mistaken to be coming from the "outside" Other. [1] It forms the basis of empathy by the projection of personal experiences to understand someone else's subjective world. [1]