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Acrophobia, also known as hypsophobia, is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort, that share similar causes and options for treatment.
fear of trees [20] [21] Dental fear, odontophobia: fear of dentists and dental procedures: Dentophobia: fear of dentists: Diagraphephobia: fear of deleting files or an extreme fear of losing your computer data. [22] Domatophobia: fear of houses: Driving phobia, driving anxiety fear of driving: Dysmorphophobia, body dysmorphic disorder
The fear of falling encompasses the anxieties accompanying the sensation and the possibly dangerous effects of falling, as opposed to the heights themselves. Those who have little fear of falling may be said to have a head for heights. Basophobia is sometimes associated with astasia-abasia, the fear of walking/standing erect.
[1] [2] [3] The term gephyrophobia comes from the Greek γέφυρα (gephura), meaning "bridge", [4] and φόβος (phobos), meaning "fear". [ 5 ] Some possible manifestations of gephyrophobia may be fear of driving off the bridge, fear of a gust of wind blowing one off the bridge, or fear that the bridge will collapse when crossing it (e.g ...
Fear of roller coasters, also known as veloxrotaphobia, is the extreme fear of roller coasters.It can also be informally referred to as coaster-phobia. [1]Such a fear is thought to originate from one or more of three factors: childhood trauma, fear of heights, and parental fears that “rub off” on their children. [2]
Social phobia affects about 7% of people in the United States and 0.5–2.5% of people in the rest of the world. [6] Agoraphobia affects about 1.7% of people. [6] Women are affected by phobias about twice as often as men. [1] [6] The typical onset of a phobia is around 10–17, and rates are lower with increasing age.
Mohawk ironworkers have worked for generations erecting New York City skyscrapers, [1] but the idea that all Mohawk people have an innate skill for doing so is a myth. [2] Unlike acrophobia, a natural fear of falling is normal. When one finds oneself in an exposed place at a great height, one normally feels one’s own posture as unstable.
Gymnophobia refers to an actual fear of nudity, but most sufferers with the condition learn how to function in general society despite the condition. They may, for example, avoid ill fitted, poor quality and revealing clothes, changing rooms, washrooms, showers, gyms, hostels, hotel rooms, medical facilities, security facilities, pools and beaches.