Medically reviewed by Michael MacIntyre, MD Key Takeaways Omphalophobia is an intense fear of belly buttons.People with this ...

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A phobia, as you may know, is defined as an abnormal or irrational fear. Phobias can emerge from negative personal experiences, or they can occur without any identifiable cause. But did you know that ...

Phobias come in many forms: Some people fear spiders while others fear flying on a plane. But the one thing they all have in common is that they're irrational, according to one phobia specialist. "A ...

Typical symptoms of phobias can include nausea, trembling, rapid heartbeat, goosebumps appearing on the skin and intense fear. As we know, there are uncountable kinds of phobias but to be more ...

Ranidaphobia is the medical term for a phobia of frogs and toads. A phobia is an intense, irrational fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. Treatment may include exposure therapy or ...

Trypanophobia or blood injury phobia (BIP) can make blood tests and vaccinations traumatic for sufferers — but there are ...

A waitress says she has a ketchup phobia – while a therapist told Fox News Digital that she could be making the situation worse by talking about it. Alexandriah Govan, 23, of Glasgow, Scotland, ...

Halloween is a holiday that revels in our deepest, darkest fears, whether that's spiders, dark, confined spaces or gore galore. For many, confronting these fears by, for instance, visiting a haunted ...