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  2. Phobia - Wikipedia

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    Other symptoms can include fainting, which may occur in blood or injury phobia, [1] and panic attacks, often found in agoraphobia and emetophobia. [6] Around 75% of those with phobias have multiple phobias. [1] Phobias can be divided into specific phobias, social anxiety disorder, and agoraphobia.

  3. The Ultimate List of 350 Surprising and Common Phobias ... - AOL

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    Research suggests that phobias can occur from a variety of things. They can be caused by a person’s genetics; they can be a result of environmental factors and they can also come about from ...

  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. Blood-injection-injury type phobia - Wikipedia

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    This can lead to health issues in phobic individuals as a result of avoidance of hospitals, doctors' appointments, blood tests, and vaccinations, or of necessary self-injections in those with diabetes [6] [3] and multiple sclerosis (MS). [7] Due to frequent avoidance of phobic triggers, BII phobics' personal and professional lives may be limited.

  6. Nosophobia - Wikipedia

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    Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia [1] or illness anxiety disorder, [2] is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia.Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), [3] pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), [4] sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), [5] cancer (carcinophobia ...

  7. Blood phobia - Wikipedia

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    Blood phobia is often caused by direct or vicarious trauma in childhood. [3] Though some have suggested a possible genetic link, a study of twins suggests that social learning and traumatic events, rather than genetics, is of greater significance. [4] Blood-injection-injury phobia (BII) affects about 4% of the population in the United States. [5]

  8. Mysophobia - Wikipedia

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    Mysophobia, also known as verminophobia, germophobia, germaphobia, bacillophobia and bacteriophobia, is a pathological fear of contamination and germs. [1] It is classified as a type of specific phobia, meaning it is evaluated and diagnosed based on the experience of high levels of fear and anxiety beyond what is reasonable when exposed to or in anticipation of exposure to stimuli related to ...

  9. Scopophobia - Wikipedia

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    Spotligectophobia is unique among phobias in that the fear of being looked at is considered both a social phobia and a specific phobia, because it is a specific occurrence which takes place in a social setting. [5] Most phobias typically fall in either one category or the other but scopophobia can be placed in both.