Category: Health & Body

Nobody in this world wants to be forgotten nor ignored, but there are some people who have unfathomable and irrational thoughts about someone forgetting them or the person themself fearing they’ll forget. This is what people with athazagoraphobia face in their lives. Athazagoraphobia is described by dictionaries as a fear of forgetting or being forgotten and is actually a common disorder. This disorder has two different sides to it. One is the fear of forgetting while the other is the fear of being forgotten about or ignored. Causes of Athazagoraphobia The childhood of the person suffering is one thing to

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We are all too familiar with the scenario – a relaxing picnic destroyed by flapping arms and mass hysteria, all caused by that ominous buzzing sound. Apiphobia, which quite a common phobia is derived from the Latin ‘apis’ for honey bee. Most people have been on the wrong end of a bee at some point, with some being more seriously affected than others. In the worst cases, a bee sting can lead to swelling and allergic reactions and therefore an aversion to bees is quite natural for the average human being. However, the “flight” instinct is often a socially conditioned

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Although alcohol is widely available, often affecting the lives of a wide proportion of the population, most people are unaware of important facts about it, or its effects on them. We have created a list of some alarming alcohol facts, so that you are better informed of what happens to your body when you drink it. 20. A pint of 4.5% cider has twice as many units of alcohol as a 25ml shot of a 40% spirit Beer and cider may contain way less alcohol by volume compared to spirits, but since their serving sizes are usually much larger, you

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Humankind is the strangest of species. On one hand, we have dominated every living being on the planet and belong right at the top of the food chain, yet some of us have developed a fear of things we’ll go great lengths to avoid. This list of phobias is quite long and varies greatly. The most common phobias include the fear of water (aquaphobia), fear of heights (acrophobia) and of course let’s not forget the spiders – Arachnophobia. But the less common fall in a very large list and one such phobia is Ichthyophobia – the fear of the fish.

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