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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 ...
Oikophobia (Greek: oîkos, 'house, household' + phóbos, 'fear'; related to domatophobia and ecophobia [1]) is an aversion to a home environment, or an abnormal fear of one's home [2] and also a tendency to criticize or reject one's own culture and praise other cultures.
A safety pin. Aichmophobia (/ ˌ eɪ k m ə ˈ f oʊ b i ə /) is a kind of specific phobia, the morbid fear of sharp things, [1] such as triangles, stars, squares, pencils, needles, knives, darts, prickly plants (like thistles and similar weeds), cactus trees, pine needles, broken glass, broken porcelain, sharp pieces of wood, a pointing finger, hexagons, or even the sharp end of an umbrella ...
When people see the blueprint pattern of their behaviors and try to figure them out. When people set boundaries with them. When they are called out and held accountable for their actions.
Any irrational fear that keeps one from going outside can cause the syndrome. [13] People with agoraphobia may experience temporary separation anxiety disorder when certain individuals of the household depart from the residence temporarily, such as a parent or spouse, or when they are left home alone. These situations can result in an increase ...
The goal was to see if objects that looked or sounded like they were getting closer would elicit fear within a group of test subjects. And they did. All of them.
Oikophobia - Irrational fear or hatred of one's home, home country, or home culture; Homophobia – Irrational fear or hatred of homosexuality or people who identify or perceived as being lesbian, gay, bisexual or transgender [69] Islamophobia – Irrational fear or hatred of Islam; Hinduphobia – Irrational fear or hatred for Hindus or Hinduism.
A Bellingham child was injured in an alleged hate crime as a group of students returned from a field trip Wednesday afternoon in downtown Bellingham, police and school officials said.