Sociophobia is an irrational fear, an uncontrolled fear of any social actions (for example, speaking to the public) or a fear of actions that are accompanied by increased attention from strangers (outsiders) (for example, the inability to do anything when someone else is watching). Sociophobia is also called social anxiety disorder. It is expressed in uncontrolled fear, which completely paralyzes the will of the individual and complicates his social [...]

Hemophobia or fear of blood is an uncontrolled fear at the level of strong panic attacks that occurs spontaneously. For the first time, hemophobia, as the term was used by the American psychiatrist George Weinberg in 1972. Fear of the form of blood significantly complicates a person’s life, and prevents adaptation in society. Hemophobia is widespread, but few of the victims turn to specialists for help. Often [...]

Russophobia is a dismissive, biased, impartial, suspicious, unfriendly and even hostile-aggressive attitude towards Russians in particular or Russia as a whole. Russophobia is a separate manifestation of xenophobia, i.e. Russophobia is one of the directions of ethnophobia (negative attitude to some ethnic groups). Many scholars consider Russophobia, unlike other phobias, a manifestation of a specific ideology, consisting in a whole set of concepts [...]

Philophobia is a fear of falling in love, which includes a high degree of fear of an emotionally positive attitude towards another person. Filofob is afraid of an intimate and sincere feeling directed at another individual. Philophobia often occurs in those people who are interested in it. Often, in their dreams, they love their happy existence with love, but for some reason in real life they suppress themselves [...]

Androphobia is a fear of men, manifested in panic fear, as well as a fear of open and close relationships. Androphobia is often based on negative past experiences with the male sex, which caused women enough suffering, pain, both physical and mental. Androphobia is based on the belief that excitement, hunting instinct, deception, and [...] are hidden behind male romance, smiles, all kinds of compliments.

Kleptomania is a passion, a mania to steal things that a person does not really need. Kleptomania is a painful addiction, because kleptomaniacs are constantly attracted by the irresistible urge to commit theft. Mania is very stable and difficult to treat, giving patients big problems, so for a full recovery, the kleptomaniac must undergo a full course of therapy. Kleptomania causes Scientists still [...]

Obsession is an obsessive state, representing involuntary thoughts, unwanted ideas or ideas that arise periodically, from time to time. An individual can fix attention on such thoughts, while they can cause negative emotions in him and lead to distress. A feature of unwanted and involuntary thoughts is that it is rather difficult to get rid of them and almost impossible [...]

Narcissism is a property of character, which consists in excessive narcissism and excessive self-esteem, which is absolutely untrue. Narcissism, as the term came from the name of the hero of the ancient Greek myth of Narcissus. He was handsome and rejected the loving nymph Echo, for which he was punished. Narcissus was doomed to love for his reflection in the lake surface. Narcissism manifests itself in [...]