phobia
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This can make it difficult for patients with needle phobia or who don’t want to self-inject due to the inconvenience.
From Science Daily ● Jul. 8, 2026
In “Doc Martin,” Clunes played a brilliant London surgeon who develops a blood phobia and becomes a general practitioner in the Cornwall fishing village where he spent summers as a child.
From Los Angeles Times ● Jan. 4, 2026
Hospital phobia, or nosocomephobia, is one of a number of recognised anxiety disorders commonly associated with traumatic childhood experiences.
From BBC ● Dec. 15, 2025
Like addiction or phobia, it narrows lives and corrodes resilience.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Oct. 19, 2025
My mother had never heard the word "phobia" before.
From "Black Star, Bright Dawn" by Scott O'Dell
Anxiety disorders include generalized anxiety disorder, panic disorder, social anxiety disorders, and phobias.
From Science Daily ● May 16, 2026
It has taken four years to arrange the right dog, with letters being sent to parents and guardians asking about allergies, phobias and other concerns.
From BBC ● Mar. 4, 2026
It is human nature to project our phobias, prejudices and obsessions onto what is simply a biological contest between our immune system and the amoral pathogens trying to replicate themselves within us.
From The Wall Street Journal ● Jan. 23, 2026
“All my phobias about being antisocial left me.”
From Los Angeles Times ● May 18, 2024
The long list of situational phobias includes the fears of being bound, beaten, locked into an enclosed area, and smeared with human waste.
From "Me Talk Pretty One Day" by David Sedaris
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