Potential symptoms of scopophobia include: Extreme anxiety, stress, or discomfort with eye contact or being looked at. Wrongly assuming others are watching, looking or staring at them. Paranoid thoughts about being watched, looked at, or stared at by others.
Scopophobia is a persistent fear of being watched or stared at. While many people may feel some level of anxiety when they are the center of attention, these feelings are exaggerated and out of proportion to the situation for people with scopophobia.
Some examples include: Being introduced to new people, being teased and/or criticized, embarrassing easily, and even answering a cell phone call in public. Often scopophobia will result in symptoms common with other anxiety disorders.
1. Arachibutyrophobia (Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth) Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. While the phenomenon has happened to everyone at one point or another, people with arachibutyrophobia are extremely afraid of it.
Causes of Scopophobia
Genetic and family history: Research has found that people with family members with phobias or other anxiety disorders are more likely to have similar conditions. 5 Genetics may play a part, but exposure to anxious behaviors can contribute to developing fearful responses.
Social anxiety disorder is an intense, persistent fear of being watched and judged by others. This fear can affect work, school, and other daily activities. It can even make it hard to make and keep friends. The good news is social anxiety disorder is treatable.
1) Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
Arachnophobia is the most common phobia – sometimes even a picture can induce feelings of panic. And lots of people who aren't phobic as such still avoid spiders if they can.
What is nyctophobia? Nyctophobia is an extreme fear of the dark. The name comes from the Greek word for night. Children and adults with nyctophobia may fear being alone in the dark.
The word sophophobia is made up of 2 Greek words, Sophia and phobia. Sophia means wisdom. 2. Thus, sophophobia is the fear of learning or of knowledge.
Mazeophobia, the scientific name for the fear of being lost, is caused by the emotional unsettling of being in an uncomfortable or unknown place.
Eye Contact and Social Anxiety Disorder
This is likely due, in part, to genetic wiring. Research has shown that people diagnosed with SAD have a pronounced fear of direct eye contact. 1 If you have SAD, the part of your brain that warns you of danger (your amygdala) can be triggered by eye contact.
Signs and symptoms of phobias
Signs you may have a phobia include: being excessively fearful of a situation or object on an ongoing basis, for six months or more. feeling an intense need to avoid or escape from the feared situation or object. experiencing panic or distress when exposed to the situation or object.
According to research discussed in another blog post in Psychology Today, avoiding someone's gaze could also be an evolutionary behaviour we have picked up to respond to threats. If someone is staring at us and we feel uncomfortable, we might start thinking we are of a lower status, or they are trying to intimidate us.
More than 60 per cent of Australians fear public spaces or large crowds.
2. Trypophobia: Fear of Circle Clusters. Although this common phobia could come off silly at first, many people have a very real struggle with trypophobia. There are many theories of what causes trypophobia, most of which point toward human evolution.
Simple phobias are fears about specific objects, animals, situations or activities. Some common examples include: dogs. spiders.
How common is phobophobia? It's hard knowing exactly how many people have a specific phobia, like phobophobia, but it's rare. We do know that about 1 in 10 American adults and 1 in 5 teenagers will deal with a specific phobia disorder at some point in their lives, though.
Trypophobia refers to disgust or fear of a pattern of holes. Seeing clusters of holes in foods, flowers and everyday items like sponges can trigger feelings of revulsion. Trypophobia is gaining recognition as an anxiety problem that can affect quality of life.
Long-Term Impacts of Scopophobia
Scopophobia can be very difficult to cope with, and can create a lot of disruption, distress, and impairment in a person's daily life. People with this phobia often find it difficult to have normal social lives, routines, and may avoid places and situations with other people.
Haphephobia is a morbid fear of being touched or touching. The symptoms of Haphephobia are very similar to other specific phobias.
Merinthophobia is the extreme and overwhelming fear of being bound or tied up.
An absence seizure causes you to blank out or stare into space for a few seconds. They can also be called petit mal seizures. Absence seizures are most common in children. They usually don't cause any long-term problems.