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Anthropophobia is the fear of people. It is not a formal clinical diagnosis. Many experts view the condition as a specific phobia. People with anthropophobia feel intense fear or anxiety at the thought of being around other people.
The term angrophobia refers specifically to the fear of becoming angry rather than the fear of others becoming angry with you. Like all phobias, angrophobia varies widely in both its symptoms and its severity from one person to the next.
Chinese traditional beliefs also states that working women are particularly susceptible to frigophobia, triggered by a combination of stress, menopause, pregnancy and other disorders such as anemia. During winter, these women are likely to experience coldness in extremities and back pains caused by the disorder.
Allodoxaphobia falls under the category rare and unusual social phobias.
Signs that your social anxiety is specific to scopophobia include: feeling discomfort when people look at you. worrying excessively about blushing. assuming that other people are watching you.
Scopophobia is an excessive fear of being watched. People with scopophobia find social interactions extremely stressful because they think people are judging them.
Your provider may diagnose you with atelophobia if you: Avoid situations in which you could make a mistake or not perform at your best. Experience symptoms for six months or longer. Have severe anxiety at the thought of making a mistake or disappointing others.
When fears and stress trigger from injury situations, you may have traumatophobia. The fears are deep-rooted in worries of another injury. As you suffer from traumatophobia, you may relive your injury as anxiety builds of going through the same pain and trauma.
Algophobia is an extreme fear of physical pain. While nobody wants to experience pain, people with this phobia have intense feelings of worry, panic or depression at the thought of pain. The anxiety of algophobia can also make you more sensitive to pain. It's most common in people with chronic pain syndromes.
Another group likely to experience friendship insecurity are people with low self-esteem. "The research actually finds that how we think people see us is more related to how we see ourselves," Dr. Franco says. "They kind of assume that other people see them the same way...which isn't necessarily true."
Often getting left out can result from simple miscommunications: Maybe your friends thought you were too busy with your job to go shopping on a weekday. Perhaps you accidentally texted them the wrong date or time for an event, and they planned something else without you.
Anxiety about friendships is often fueled by negative thoughts and beliefs about oneself and one's abilities. By questioning the validity of these thoughts and challenging them, we can gain a more accurate perspective on our situations. Set boundaries. It's important to set boundaries when dealing with friendships.
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.
Signs of glossophobia may include avoiding speaking in public at all costs, over-preparing for social interactions, fearing judgement, experiencing extreme stress during a presentation, and only engaging in activities that do not require public speaking.
A person with megalophobia experiences intense fear and anxiety when they think of or are around large objects such as large buildings, statues, animals and vehicles. They often avoid situations or places that have large objects.
Pittakionophobia – fear of stickers
Pittakionophobia is an extremely rare phobia but one that can get in the way of everyday life. For example, think of all the price labels in some supermarkets or stores and address labels in the office. For those with children, stickers can be hard to avoid.
Fear of blood (hemophobia), injections (trypanophobia), needles or other sharp objects (belonephobia), or injury (traumatophobia) occurs to some degree in at least 5% of the population.
Nyctophobia is very common, especially among children. Some researchers estimate that nearly 45% of children have an unusually strong fear of some kind. Fear of the dark is one of the most common fears among kids between 6 and 12 years old. Kids usually outgrow nyctophobia by adolescence, but not always.
If you have escalaphobia, you may feel trapped when you are at the top of the escalator and feel like you might fall or tumble down the escalator. You may also have a rapid heartbeat, a hot flushed feeling, a shortness of breath, and sudden trembling when trying to step onto the escalator.
Symptoms of Ligyrophobia
People suffering from Ligyrophobia or Phonophobia show different symptoms based on the intensity of their fear: Nausea, fainting and sweating are some of the most common symptoms while the desire to flee from the noisy place is another highly reported symptom in sufferers.
Xanthophobia, fear of the color yellow.