List of phobias
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (from Greek φόβος phobos, "fear") occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder (e.g. agoraphobia), in chemistry to describe chemical aversions (e.g. hydrophobic), in biology to describe organisms that dislike certain conditions (e.g. acidophobia), and in medicine to describe hypersensitivity to a stimulus, usually sensory (e.g. photophobia). In common usage, they also form words that describe dislike or hatred of a particular thing or subject. The suffix is antonymic to -phil-.
For more information on the psychiatric side, including how psychiatry groups phobias such as agoraphobia, social phobia, or simple phobia, see phobia. The following lists include words ending in -phobia, and include fears that have acquired names. In some cases, the naming of phobias has become a word game, of notable example being a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News. In some cases, a word ending in -phobia may have an antonym with the suffix -phil-, e.g. Germanophobe / Germanophile.
Phobia
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation the affected person will go to great lengths to avoid, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed. If the feared object or situation cannot be avoided entirely, the affected person will endure it with marked distress and significant interference in social or occupational activities.
The terms distress and impairment as defined by the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fourth Edition (DSM-IV-TR) should also take into account the context of the sufferer's environment if attempting a diagnosis. The DSM-IV-TR states that if a phobic stimulus, whether it be an object or a social situation, is absent entirely in an environment — a diagnosis cannot be made. An example of this situation would be an individual who has a fear of mice but lives in an area devoid of mice. Even though the concept of mice causes marked distress and impairment within the individual, because the individual does not encounter mice in the environment no actual distress or impairment is ever experienced. Proximity and the degree to which escape from the phobic stimulus is impossible should also be considered. As the sufferer approaches a phobic stimulus, anxiety levels increase (e.g. as one gets closer to a snake, fear increases in ophidiophobia), and the degree to which escape of the phobic stimulus is limited has the effect of varying the intensity of fear in instances such as riding an elevator (e.g. anxiety increases at the midway point between floors and decreases when the floor is reached and the doors open).
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by: Chiasm- I'm afraid.
- You're afraid of letting go.
- I'm afraid.
- I think, you're afraid of happiness.
- I'm afraid.
You see inside
You see inside
- I think, you're afraid of happiness.
- I'm afraid.
- And this is starting to excite me.
You read my mind
- I'm afraid.
You read my mind
- Once you've had a lover-robot...
- I'm afraid.
-... you'll never want a real man again.
You see inside.
You see inside.
- I'm afraid.
- You're afraid of letting go.
- I'm afraid.
- I think, you're afraid of happiness.
- I'm afraid.
You survived a hellish dream
Now the light can mend the seams
But your will wraps tight around
Watch the sky come crashing down
You breathe
Believe
You touch
Won't face, I need you so much
Embrace
In case
I fear
Your love for me is so clear
You survived a hellish dream
Now the light can mend the seams
But your will wraps tight around
Watch the sky come crashing down
I arrived on foreign land
With no one to hold my hand
But my guide came shining through
From the fog alone stood you
A love that's so defined
You'll never wake the newness that can be
A happiness so kind
Mistaken for seductive falsity
- I'm afraid.
- Of me?
- Yes.
- That I will hurt you? You're afraid of letting go.
You breathe
Believe
You touch
Won't face, I need you so much
Embrace
In case
I fear
Your love for me is so clear
A love that's so defined
You'll never wake the newness that can be
A happiness so kind
Mistaken for seductive falsity
(You survived a hellish dream)
Just knowing that you're mine
(Now the light can mend the seam)
Erases all reverse complexity
(But your will wraps tight around)
The emptiness unwinds
(Watch the sky come crashing down)
An unexpected flexibility
(You survived a hellish dream)
A love that's so defined
(Now the light can mend the seam)
You'll never wake the newness that can be
(But your will wraps tight around)
A happiness so kind
(Watch the sky come crashing down)
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