Safephobia

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Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder

Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect

Body dysmorphic disorder (BDD, also known as body dysmorphia, dysmorphic syndrome; originally dysmorphophobia) is a chronic mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the afflicted individual is concerned with body image, manifested as excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of their physical appearance. An individual with BDD has perpetual negative thoughts about their appearance; in the majority of cases, an individual suffering from BDD is obsessed with a minor or imagined flaw. An afflicted individual thinks they have a defect in either one or several features of their body, which causes psychological and clinically significant distress or impairs occupational or social functioning. BDD often co-occurs with depression, anxiety, social withdrawal, and social isolation. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Disposophobia

Disposophobia – fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as compulsive hoarding

Compulsive hoarding (or pathological collecting, or, informally, packratting) is a pattern of behavior that is characterized by the excessive acquisition of and inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment. Compulsive hoarding behavior has been associated with health risks, impaired functioning, economic burden, and adverse effects on friends and family members. When clinically significant enough to impair functioning, hoarding can prevent typical uses of space so as to limit activities such as cooking, cleaning, moving through the house, and sleeping. It can also be dangerous if it puts the individual or others at risk from fire, falling, poor sanitation, and other health concerns. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Dentophobia, odontophobia

Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures

Dental fear refers to the fear of dentistry and of receiving dental care. A severe form of this fear (specific phobia) is variously called dental phobia, odontophobia, dentophobia, dentist phobia, or dental anxiety. However, it has been suggested not to use the term "dental phobia" for people who do not feel their fears to be excessive or unreasonable and resemble individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by previous traumatic dental experiences. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Decidophobia

Decidophobia – fear of making decisions

Decidophobia is the fear of making decisions.

The word decidophobia was first mentioned by Princeton University philosopher Walter Kaufmann in his 1973 book Without guilt and justice in which he writes about the phobia in length.

In Without Guilt and Justice, Kaufman describes people with decidophobia as people who lack the courage or will to sort through the different sides in disagreements to find the truth. They would rather leave the deciding of what is the truth to some authority. This might be a parent or spouse. It might be a church or university or a political party. Once the decidophobe has relinquished authority to decide the truth then they will accept as truth anything argued by that authority.

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Cyberphobia

Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies

Cyberphobia is an irrational fear of or aversion to computers, specifically, the fear and/or inability to learn new technologies. It is classified as a specific phobia and is a term introduced in 1985 to refer to a sense of anxiety of aversion created by technology. Some forms of cyberphobia may range from the more passive forms of technophobia of those who are indifferent toward cyberspace to the responses of those who see digital technology as a medium of intrusive surveillance; more extreme responses may involve anti-technological paranoia expressed by social movements that radically oppose ‘technological society’ and ‘the New World Order’. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Coulrophobia

Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns) Coulrophobia is a fear of clowns. The term is of recent origin, probably dating from the 1980s, and according to one analyst, "has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary." However, the author later notes, "regardless of its less-than-verifiable etymology, coulrophobia exists in several lists."

The prefix coulro- may be a neologism derived from the Ancient Greek word κωλοβαθριστής meaning "stilt-walker." Although the concept of a clown as a figure of fun was unknown in classical Greek culture, stiltwalking was practiced. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Attention!

Going to start tagging posts with 'safephobia' from now on. This is so that, if you follow me and don't want to see my posts on your dashboard (in case one could be triggering or they're just in the way) you can blacklist it. That is all!

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Claustrophobia

Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in

Claustrophobia (from Latin claustrum "a shut in place" and Greek φόβος, phóbos, "fear") is the fear of having no escape and being closed in small spaces or rooms (opposite: claustrophilia). It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in panic attack, and can be the result of many situations or stimuli, including elevators crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and even tight-necked clothing. The onset of claustrophobia has been attributed to many factors, including a reduction in the size of the amygdala, classical conditioning, or a genetic predisposition to fear small spaces.

One study indicates that anywhere from 15–37% of the world population is affected by severe claustrophobia, but only a small percentage of these people receive some kind of treatment for the disorder. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Cibophobia, sitophobia

Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Chronophobia

Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward Chronophobia is described by Pamela Lee as the fear of time. There are three categories of phobia including agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias which includes spiders, snakes, dogs, water, and heights. Rosemary Stolz states that chronophobia falls under the category of specific phobia because time is a specific object that one can fear. Somewhere between 5.1% and 12.5% of Americans have experienced some sort of phobia. Chronophobia is especially common in prison inmates and the elderly, but it can manifest in any person who has an extreme amounts of stress and anxiety in their life. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Chiroptophobia

Chiroptophobia – fear of bats Fear of bats, sometimes called chiroptophobia (from the Greek χείρ - cheir, "hand" [referring to the order of the bats], ὀπτός - optos, "visible" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is a specific phobia associated with bats and to common negative stereotypes and fear of bats stemming from prejudices and misinformation. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Chemophobia

Chemophobia – fear of chemicals

Chemophobia (or chemphobia) is a "fear of chemicals". It is most often used to describe the fear that "chemicals", usually meaning man-made products or artificially concentrated but naturally occurring chemicals, are bad and harmful while "natural" substances (i.e., chemicals that occur naturally or that are obtained using traditional techniques) are good and healthy. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Chaetophobia

Chaetophobia – fear of hair Chaetophobia (from the Greek χαίτη - khaitē, "loose, flowing hair" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is fear of hair. Sufferers fear may be associated with human hair and / or animal hair. They fear people / animals with an excess amount of hair. They may also fear the hair on their own body. Some only fear detached or loose hair and do not mind attached hair. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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Blood-injection-injury type phobia

Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias

According to the DSM-IV classification of mental disorders blood-injection-injury type phobias constitute a subtype of specific phobias. It includes fear of blood (hemophobia), injury phobia and fear of receiving an injection (trypanophobia and some other names) or other invasive medical procedures.

A distinctive feature of phobias of this type is their vasovagal manifestation. For most fears (both normal and abnormal) the response to the feared stimulus includes the accelerated heart rate.In the cases of blood-injection-injury phobias a two-phase vasovagal response is observed: first a brief acceleration of heart rate, then its deceleration, bradycardia, and dropped blood pressure.The above may also lead to vasovagal syncope (fainting). Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)

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All done. I feel like my posts are much more helpful now. As it's already 2am where I live, I'll be off to bed now. I'll be posting more definitions tomorrow, though! And, a note: thank you so much for the followers, which all came from mamamantis (currently mummymantis). So thanks to her and everyone that followed! Goodnight.

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Going to go back and edit all my posts to add a little more text to them, namely the beginning of the Wikipedia article for them, to make them more in detail and informative! Might post some new phobias too if I have time, but otherwise that's off until tomorrow.

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Aviophobia, aviatophobia

Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying Fear of flying is a fear of being on an airplane (aeroplane), or other flying vehicle, such as a helicopter, while in flight. It is also sometimes referred to as aerophobia, aviatophobia, or aviophobia. Fear of flying may be a distinct phobia in itself, or it may be an indirect combination of one or more other phobias related to flying, such as claustrophobia (a fear of enclosed spaces) or acrophobia (a fear of heights). It may have other causes as well, such as agoraphobia (especially the type that has to do with having a panic attack in a place they can't escape from). It is a symptom rather than a disease, and different causes may bring it about in different individuals. Source (may contain potentially upsetting images)