Some are afraid of mice, spiders and cockroaches, others fall into panic at the sight of lightning or solar eclipse. There are even such exotic fears like fear of balloons! So what are we afraid?
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Phobia of modern society
Tenth October celebrated World Mental Health Day. Today, according to WHO, mental diseases suffer over 450 million people on the planet. In Western countries, every seventh person either suffers from paranoia or schizophrenia, or is subject to depression and alcoholism. Experts predict that by 2020, mental disorders will enter the world's top five diseases leaders.
In Russia, almost 8 million people are also treated in medical institutions with mental and drug treatment diseases. This is more than 5% of the total population of Russia. In addition, three out of 100 residents of Russia suffer «Border» disorders - neurosis and neurotic reactions.
Fear strong «Pomolalohel», Psychologists celebrate. According to the director of the State Scientific Center of Social and Forensic Psychiatry. Serbian Tatyana Dmitrieva, in Russia 95% of disabled in mental illness - persons younger than 40 years. In addition, I installed English specialists, fears began to master people with a high intelligence coefficient. Previously, such a trend was not traced.
Over the past 10 years, the number of phobias in the world has increased from 300 to 1030. So what we have? Cosmicophobia - fear of space phenomena, cyberfobia - fear of work at the computer (mostly applies to the elderly), millenopobia - fear of progress, gellenologist - fear of scientific terms, ergofobia - fear of work, and verminophobia - fear of microbes, faoncrophobia - fear of baldness, rhyphobia - Fear in front of wrinkles, dysmorphophobia - the fear of the unattractiveness of his body, the Osmophobia is the fear of the natural smell of his body, the rest - the fear of fatting and t. D., and T. D., and T. D...
Surprisingly, the most common fear is the fear of the subway - there are not those who come to a major city, but at local residents who are almost daily descended under the ground. In particular, almost 10% of native Muscovites are prone to this short. But here is a paradox: they calmly go in cars with an inexperienced driver and in a bad road.
Not a coward but phobia afraid
According to WHO, 5-7% of the world's population suffer from phobic depression. Phobias can be simple (fear of heights - aeroacropobia, closed space - claustrophobia, death - tanatophobia, water - hydrophobia, spiders - arachnefobia, aging - geonthobia), and completely incredible and illogical, for example, fear of hearing good news (Europobia).
Today there are several hundred phobias. Among them - fear of thinking, money, name. In the age of progress, phobias caused by technical devices are especially popular, in particular - by mobile phone. Some people claim that we allegedly hear a mobile phone call, sitting at a concert or driving a car, although in reality the device does not call or even turned off. «Phantom call» becomes a chronic phobia called «call mania».
There are other, no less exotic fears
Here are just some of them:
Ablutofobia - Fear of washing and water procedures.
Allyumofobia - Fear garlic.
Atazagorafobia - Fear of being unnoticed.
Apobatofobia - obsessive fear to enter the restroom.
Bazophobia - Fear walking.
BronTophobia - Fear of thunder.
Laterophobia - fear lying on one side, more often - on the left.
Metroofobia - obsessive fear of poetry.
Pogonophobia - Fear of beard.
Chartopobia - Fear of being beaten.
Sinofobia - Fear of chinese.
Spectrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
Eretoophobia - Fear redheet.
Phobophobia - Fear of fear of fear.
Famous and fearful
Napoleon Bonaparte was hippofobia (fear of horses), complicated by leukophobia (white fear). How to explain the fact that on many canvases Napoleon is shown on a white horse, not clear. It is known that in the stables of Bonaparte, white horses has never been.
Generalissimus Joseph Stalin suffered and airfobia (fear flying by plane). Being Commander-in-Chief, they never visited the front, and for a peaceful conference in Potsdam went by train, which was protected by 17,000 NKVD fighters and 8 armored trains.
The president of North Korea Kim Jong Il is like a similar phobia. It is known that Comrade Kim all types of transport prefers its own armored train. According to eyewitnesses, fly by plane kim is afraid.
Artist Mikhail Vrubel was exposed to Caliginefobia (the fear of women who he liked). In the student years she cuts himself with a knife chest after an unsuccessful novel.
The actor of that coaster poisoned the life of peladophobia (fear of baldness) and ommatophobia (fear of the evil eye), and his colleague Kim Besinger does not tolerate other people's touchs (Afghenfosmophobia), because of what the months does not come out of the house.
