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Phobias Blog with Lisa Fritscher April 2008 Archive

By Lisa Fritscher, About.com Guide to Phobias

Dying of Fright?

Tuesday April 29, 2008
According to Science Daily, a medical research team recently released the results of a study that may have found the reason that anxiety sufferers appear to be at higher risk ... Read More

Children of Polygamist Compound at Risk for Phobias

Thursday April 24, 2008
The polygamist compound that was recently raided in Texas has been all over the news. Many stories have focused on the children that were removed, who are now in a ... Read More

Makes You Wonder What He Knows That We Don’t

Tuesday April 22, 2008
In the odd news category, it was recently reported by United Press International that a successful British chef suffered a severe phobia of food. According to that story, Andrew Forster, ... Read More

Phobia or Discrimination?

Friday April 11, 2008
A McDonald’s employee in South Carolina is at the center of a controversy that is turning out to be more complicated than originally anticipated. She was working the front cash ... Read More

Phobia Causes Extreme Reaction

Wednesday April 9, 2008
If you have a phobia, then you are probably all too familiar with the extreme panic that a sudden, unexpected confrontation with the object of your fear can induce. Yahoo ... Read More

Nomo-Phobia – Legitimate Phobia or Media Hype?

Monday April 7, 2008
According to the Worthington Herald, experts in the UK recently identified a new phobia. Nomo-phobia has been defined as a phobia of being out of mobile phone contact. According to ... Read More

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