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Fighting phobias: Two Rivers sisters put their unusual fears on canvas for ...
Fairbanks Daily News-Miner
by Reba Lean / rlean@newsminer.com FAIRBANKS - Two sisters have put their phobias down in paint for their First Friday show, “Rodentia Lagomorpha,” at Keller Architecture and Allied Arts. The dark, somewhat sinister paintings showcase the siblings' ...

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Overcoming religious phobias
Khaleej Times
Islam has become an important part of American discourse leading up to the 2012 federal elections and candidates everywhere appear eager to take a position on Islam for political gain. Across the country, rising Islamophobia has made it difficult for ...

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Why do people have phobias?
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The very definition of a phobia is an "irrational fear." Phobias are always overreactions to mild dangers, constant fear of rare dangers, and outright terror of things that are not dangerous at all. Because of their irrationality, it seems like phobias ...

The Lantern: Phobias create paralysis for many, are treatable
my.hsj.org
It is a phobia. By definition a phobia is irrational; unjustifiable, the sufferer cannot explain his or her fear to the world. While most people have small fears, phobias are on a whole different level. Even though they are not often a topic of ...

All awash with phobias
Malaysia Star
By MARINA MAHATHIR If ever there's a phobia one can promote, it should be a true loathing of graft in any form, regardless of it being the petty everyday variety or the major million dollar ones. I'VE been thinking about phobias lately because there ...

Sam Worthington: Musing On Actor Responsibility And Weird Phobias
Santa Monica Mirror
I don't have any big phobias like sharks or spiders or the end of the world. I get scared of small things like fluorescent lights because they don't cast a shadow. I get scared because I wonder why that light doesn't have a shadow.

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The Sun

Cure your phobias in our LIVE webchat
The Sun
Let phobia expert Ali Campbell tackle your fears in our live webchat. This Friday, Ali will be live in the Sun studio from 1pm answering your questions and helping real Sun readers beat their fears. An expert in NLP - Neuro Linguistic Programming - Ali ...

Woman forms support group for those panicked by tornadoes
Joplin Globe
By Kevin McClintock Globe Columnist Having spent nearly all of 2011 overcoming the paralyzing symptoms of this phobia, she's created a weather phobia support group to help others still suffering from the devastation of the May 22 tornado.

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STEVEN FRIEDMAN: Policy choices alone won't bring economic growth
Business Day
This tells us much about the phobias of some in our society, but nothing about political reality. We will understand our economic prospects and choices better when we banish the nationalisation bogey. There are two reasons for this.

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ABC News (blog)

Fear of Friday, the 13th (Paraskevidekatriaphobia) and Other Unpronounceable ...
ABC News (blog)
Paraskevidekatriaphobia, as coined by psychotherapist Donald Dossey of the Stress Management Center-Phobia Institute in Ashville, NC, bedevils “people with blind, unreasoning fear of this day and date, as opposed to those who have a clear, ...

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Internet Search Results

The Phobia List
site sponsors. I started this list in the late 1980's and put it on the web in 1995. It's since been adopted and adapted onto many pages since then.

Phobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
A phobia (from the Greek: φόβος, Phóbos, meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or ...

Phobias Causes, Symptoms, Signs, Effects and Treatment by ...
Get the facts on phobia causes, symptoms and treatments. Kinds of phobias include social phobia, agoraphobia and specific phobias (claustrophobia, arachnophobia).

phobia: Definition from Answers.com
Notice the severe overlap between specific and social phobias which is indicative of the nature between the two. The differences from specific phobias unanimously lay ...

List of phobias - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The English suffixes -phobia, -phobic, -phobe (of Greek origin: φόβος/φοβία) occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe ...

Phobias: Specific Phobias Types and Symptoms
Information about the causes of unreasonable and debilitating fears of a particular thing, called specific phobias.

Phobia List - An A to Z List of Phobias
Phobias are the most common mental disorder in the U.S. This phobia list gives the name and fear object of a number of phobias.

Phobias: MedlinePlus
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder . It is a strong, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. There are many specific phobias ...

Phobia Overview, Risk Factors for Phobias - Phobias ...
Health information you can trust and tools and apps you can use to live your healthiest life. From diabetes to depression, adults to kids, get the straightforward ...

phobias: Information from Answers.com
When fear in response to a particular object or situation is excessive and seemingly irrational it is a phobia. Fear is helpful when it stops us entering or remaining ...