Feeling powerless in the face of your fears If you suffer from Atychiphobia, you may also self-handicap. It means that you sabotage your efforts because you are afraid of failing. For instance, you may not call an investor for your business idea, thus leading to your failure. In this sc...
The idea is also supported by scientific research. Psychologist Martin Seligman performed a classical conditioning experiment in which he showed subjects pictures of certain objects and then administered an electric shock. The idea was to create a phobia (an intense, irrational fear) of the object i...
The brain through repetition learns specific fearful neural pathways, creating the habit of fight or flight- even when responding to non-threatening situations. Some people are more susceptible than others and develop what is called a “phobia,” or severe debilitating fear. Fear quickly escalates ...
The idea was to create a phobia (an intense, irrational fear) of the object in the picture. When the picture was of something like a spider or a snake, it took only two to four shocks to establish a phobia. When the picture was of something like a flower or a tree, it took a ...
2006). Indeed, childbirth, which is often a desired and planned occasion, may also be a source of fear for some pregnant women (Mercer 2004). Fear of childbirth often manifests itself on a continuum that ranges from normative levels of anxiety and fear, to “tokophobia,” which is ...
Anecdotal evidence suggests lack of dentist knowledge and uncertainty about how clinical practice can be improved when dealing with victims of sexual violence. This systematic review presents a synth...
Fear is a strongly repressed emotional experience when people are faced with dangerous situations and are powerless to get rid of it, and it is one of the most widely studied emotions [18]. With the increase of modern mental and psychological diseases, the incidence of phobia is increasing yea...
plane or other type of flying vehicle like a helicopter during the flight. This fear can be identified as a distinct or a combination of indirect one or more disorders like claustrophobia –fear of being confined, restricted or powerless to escape or dread of being in a great height –...
The Daily Beast also revealed thatTrump has a bizarre fear of “pineapples, tomatoes, bananas” getting thrown at him by angry protesters, calling them “dangerous stuff.” His legal team alsoscrambled to hide his fructo-ballistophobiaby trying to erase his testimony from a public court recor...
globalized Durkheimian framework to argue that this violent, uncontrollable, and stupid deity is a personification of the violent dangerous slave-raiding state: "a nuanced and subtle symbolic interpretation of the impact of despotic states on relatively powerless egalitarian indigenes" ([32], p. 172...