A Phobia consists of persistent fear or avoidance of a specifc stimulus. Usually the stimulus is a thing or a situation like bees or height. But there’s a second component to phobias. In addition, the fear causes significant distress or somehow impairs the person’s life. Where do these Phobias come from our DNA may play a role. Many people have gene that raise their risks for anxiety related disorders an umbrella term that includes phobias. But even if you don’t have those phobia genes, you can develop one through learning condition.
Following are some Weirdest Phobias:-
Emetophobia:-
Emetophobia is the fear of vomiting. Researchers
sometimes categorize this fear as a ‘Social Phobia’, because patients may fear
of vomiting because it would be embarrassing if it happened in front of other
people. Looking at certain foods or feeling stomach activity can trigger the
phobia.
Somniphobia:-
Somniphobia:-
Somniphobia is the fear of ‘initiating sleep’ or
falling asleep. Some people experience sleep paralysis as they drift off-
basically, not being able to move even through they’re still partly awake-and
this can lead to somniphobia.
Ranidaphobia:-
Ranidaphobia:-
Ranidaphobia is a fear of frogs not to be confused
with bufonophobia, which is a fear of toads. Unsurprisingly, a fear of frogs
can cause people to avoid hiking in nature or visiting natural history museums.
Panophobia:-
Panophobia is the fear of everything, and is a
term sometimes used to describe patients with generalized anxiety disorders.
One recent study found that many panophobics are often frightened by darkness
or harmless noises. But more broadly people with panaphobia have fear stemming
from no identifiable cause.
Athazagoraphobia is the fear of forgetting or
being forgotten. Having some experience with amnesia, or knowing someone who
has endured amnesia, can trigger this fear, according to one study from
Germany.
Erythrophobia:-
Erythrophobia is the fear of blushing. Blushing
can become a stubborn and incapacitating symptom that often severely restricts
the patient’s social life, say the authors of a study in Psychosomatic
Medicine. Unfortunately for people with this phobia and for anyone who feels a
little embarrassed about blushing trying to suppress a blush usually makes it
worse.
Deipnophobia:-
Deipnophobia:-
Deipnophobia is the fear of dining or more
specially, dinner parties. It’s not at all clear how this phobia develops but
it is listed in the Oxford Dictionary of Psychology, so some people have
experienced it.
Frigophobia:-
Frigophobia is the fear of
being cold. It may be especially common with Chinese culture because the
Eastern philosophical principles of ‘yin’ and ‘yang’ hold that cold exposure is
associated with heart ache, stomachache and illness, as well as a loss of
vitality.
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