phobia

She was diagnosed with school phobia and ended up being home schooled for a while, and has since found it hard to stay in a job.

Like addiction or phobia, it narrows lives and corrodes resilience.

"Everything changed" after Paris, she said, noting that she employs up to six people to guard her house at night now, and that she started to get a "phobia of going out" because she thought people would "see me out and know my home was empty".

In my early 30s, I developed a terrible phobia of flying.

One of the favorite pseudo-intellectuals of the movement, Curtis Yarvin, sneeringly calls it "dictator phobia" to argue that government should depend on the will of the people, dismissing democracy as outdated and inefficient.