Specific phobias are severe, intense panic responses from your body that are triggered by a specific thing, animal, person, or idea. One specific phobia is the fear of fear itself — known as ...

To have a phobia is to have an overwhelming and often irrational fear of something. The fear can be so intense that sufferers go to extreme lengths to avoid the thing that they are frightened of.

There are more than 400 distinct phobias well recognised by psychologists all over the world. But many of these are very rare, in fact there are more than half of them that we don’t even know about.

Everyone has a few weird anxieties and odd circumstances that might result in some level of fear. However, when the fear becomes aspirated or excessive, it might become a phobia. A phobia is described ...

If ever there was a phobia not to have, the fear of fears, phobia of phobias, is a vicious cycle that is difficult to get out of. Phobophobia is an unrealistic and persistent fear of the sensations of ...