Wednesday, March 31, 2010

Phobias

"An unreasonable sort of fear that can cause avoidance and panic. Phobias are a relatively common type of anxiety disorder." Definition about phobia from http://www.medterms.com/

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Everyone has heard of phobias, they know that they are a fear of a certain type of thing. Be it a spider or of being touched. Most everyone has one, you may even have one that you don't even know about. Some phobias are pretty normal to hear about, like Astraphobia; the fear of thunder and lightning, or even Coulrophobia; the fear of clowns and even Claustrophobia; the fear of confined spaces. But while some are fairly normal, there are some phobias that may seem ridiculous to you. phobias like Dikephobia; the fear of justice, Genophobia; fear of sex, or even (don't try claiming you have this, cause 13 years of going to school has already proven you don't have it) Didaskaleinophobia; the fear of going to school. I know how impossible these phobias sound, but somewhere on this planet, even in Canada there is someone with one or more of these disorders. According to both http://www.wrongdiagnosis.com/ and http://www.cureresearch.com/ extrapolated statistics show that there are about 1,374,413 people in Canada alone who suffer from a phobia. China and India carry the most people with phobias, ranging from 20 million to 25 million people. So the next time you see someone, who knows maybe they have a weird phobia. You can find out about more phobias at http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/list-of-phobias-and-their-meanings.html .


byebyex :P

2 comments:

  1. That sounds cool, I like what you about the didaskaleinophobia, it made me laugh.
    Good explanations for everything, I'm going to look into to phobias more cause it sounds like a really intersting subject.

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  2. I really like you blog, I guess people have some weird ones though and I ain't gonna really bother arguing with you about phobias because I, myself don't know that much. But from what your saying is that its common that people have phobias, but are all the cases the same? For example: if two guys have a phobia of spiders.

    I'm so mean!!!!

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