False Phobias
This week medical dialy.com talk about a wide range of strange phobias from “Nomophobia is a fear of being out of mobile phone contact.” to “Xanthophobia is a dread of the color yellow.”
They explain how a phobia is much more then anxiety, a phobia is overwhelming making it near impossible for the phobic to function normally in that particular situation.
There are Hundreds of Phobias, But Not All of Them Are Real
Films and books have introduced us to new phobias, Medical Daily go on to tell us some phobias that have been invented for the purpose of entertainment.
Anachrophobia was introduced by the author of the Doctor Who novels, and is a fear of temporal displacement
And one creative author invented Anatidaephobia the fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you. (Gary Larson The Far Side.)
But in actual fact any of these made up phobias, could actually be real. As a phobia is an irrational fear, which means you can create a fear of anything. An real example is Kenophobia he overwhelming dread of empty spaces.
Find out more about real and fictional phobias, including the fear of Keanu Reeves at the article source: 10 Phobias you didn’t realise existed
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