Here we give you some of the most commonly encountered phobias. Do you suffer from any of these?<\/p>\n
Claustrophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is a fear of closed narrow places. It is a very commonly found phobia. People suffering from this are afraid of closed rooms,\u00a0lifts and elevators. The often exhibit physical symptoms of palpitation and sweating when they find themselves in closed spaces.<\/p>\n Arachnophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the fear of spiders,\u00a0which tends to affect women more than men.<\/p>\n Ophidophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the irrational fear of snakes. This fear can be due to personal experiences and cultural influences.<\/p>\n Acrophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is the fear of high places. People suffering from it avoid high places altogether.<\/p>\n Agoraphobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is a fear of crowded places,\u00a0specially in the \u00a0situations where escape is difficult. One third of the population suffering from panic disorder suffers from agoraphobia too.<\/p>\n Cynophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0This is the chronic fear of dogs. This type of fear is often learnt,\u00a0owing to some bad experience in the past.<\/p>\n Trypanophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is the fear of needles and syringes. This is the most common phobia to be left untreated as the sufferers avoid the situations altogether.<\/p>\n Pteromerhanophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is the fear of flying. The person has a morbid fear of flying. Treatment includes systematically desensitizing the patient and gradually introducing him to flying.<\/p>\n Mysophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is the fear of germs and dirt. This is often co-morbid with obsessive compulsive disorder.<\/p>\n Sociophobia:<\/strong>\u00a0\u00a0This is the fear of being in a social situation where you will be judged negatively.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Here we give you some of the most commonly encountered phobias. Do you suffer from any of these? Claustrophobia:\u00a0\u00a0This is a fear of closed narrow places. It is a very commonly found phobia. People suffering from this are afraid of closed rooms,\u00a0lifts and elevators. The often exhibit physical symptoms of palpitation and sweating when they […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":10257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[262,277,273],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-general-healthcare","category-manias-phobias","category-mental-conditions"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10256"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10258,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10256\/revisions\/10258"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/10257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/moho.loopshell.com\/read\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}