I've tried everything to get rid of my strange, specific phobia – including one very embarrassing TV appearance with Paul ...

Dogs are wonderful beings, there’s no doubt about it. But not everyone is equally thrilled about being in their vicinity, ...

Phonophobia, also known as sonophobia, ligyrophobia, or acousticophobia, is a type of specific phobia that relates to loud sounds. Specific phobias affect approximately 27% of people ages 20 to 50.

Nine months of the year, a six-inch mouse sculpture sits on its haunches in my patio garden. Its tail spirals up around a ...

A phobia is an anxiety disorder, defined by an irrational fear of an object, situation, or living thing. While fear is a ...

Megalophobia is a specific type of phobia in which a person has an intense and persistent fear of large objects, like very ...

If you often feel depressed, misuse alcohol or drugs, or have other mental health issues alongside anxiety, it is a sign that ...

which range from fear of computers to an anxiety about specific numbers (not just fear of the number 13, or triskaidekaphobia). Phobias - the word is Greek for 'fear' - have always been part of ...

Needles and getting shots (29%) Natalie Buchwald, a psychologist from Manhattan Mental Health Counseling in New York, said such fears are al ...

True phobias—paralyzing, crippling fears, sometimes irrational—can make movie-watching an awkward or potentially horrifying experience for some people. To be sure, there’s a difference ...

Gentle nasal spray vaccines against COVID, the flu and RSV are coming. They may work better than shots in the arm ...