Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A clinical psychologist unpacks the difference between fears and phobias. (Getty Creative stock photo) (LaylaBird via Getty Images ...

Phobias: More than fear FARGO - When Katie Gordon was a graduate student, she fainted as she was leaving a hospital after a blood draw. "I fainted and fell out of the elevator," she says. Now an ...

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Nearly everybody has a phobia, but we’ve found some are certainly quirkier than others You know the feeling: clammy hands, shortness of breath, anxiety and fear. No, we aren’t talking about that ...

A phobia is an extreme irrational fear of something. It is a type of anxiety disorder that emerges, on average, at age 9 or 10. There are different kinds of phobias directed toward objects, situations ...

A phobia, as you may know, is defined as an abnormal or irrational fear. Phobias can emerge from negative personal experiences, or they can occur without any identifiable cause. But did you know that ...

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 ...

Everyone’s afraid of something, but sometimes our fears are so strong they affect our lives in surprisingly significant ways. Though frogs might not seem very intimidating, the fear of frogs is ...

If long words are so terrifying they make your body shake, you suffer from the surprising – and ironically named – hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.

Ranidaphobia is the medical term for a phobia of frogs and toads. A phobia is an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Treatment may include exposure therapy or ...

Halloween is a holiday that revels in our deepest, darkest fears, whether that's spiders, dark, confined spaces or gore galore. For many, confronting these fears by, for instance, visiting a haunted ...