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Do you have any phobia? (psychcentral.com)

submitted 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago) by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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What is a phobia?

Phobias are persistent and intense fears of a particular:

object

person (like a doctor or clown)

situation

activity

If you have a phobia, you may experience severe anxiety and panic attacks when you’re:

exposed to the object or situation you’re fearful of

thinking about the thing you’re afraid of

anticipating an encounter with the item you’re scared of

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[–] [email protected] 2 points 1 year ago* (last edited 1 year ago)

Submechanophobia. No matter how much I try to rationalise, water grates in pools raise my heart rate.
Deathly scared of buoys.

Anyone read how a few divers went to explore weird pillars in a lake, only for one of them to get sucked into a nuclear plant water intake? Jesus wept. (He lived, somehow.)*