Indeed, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual, fifth edition (DSM V) commonly used in clinical practice by psychiatrists and ...

The truth about food phobias – and why they’re a lot scarier than you realise - IN FOCUS: Assume that having a phobia of a ...

Swedish Gender Equality Minister Paulina Brandberg has such an acute phobia of bananas that her staff must work around the clock to ensure that she never has to lay eyes on the yellow fruit, Swedish ...

Phobias can be very unique and some of them will blow away your mind. There are plenty of unusual ones that make you wonder how these fears come to be. Here are some of them ...

Food phobias, he claims, often stem from early negative ... with intervention techniques such as clinical hypnotherapy, eye movement desensitisation and reprocessing (EMDR) and mindfulness for ...

Mental health experts aren’t the only doctors who encounter intense phobias. Dr. Besty Jacob, an Optometrist with True Eye Experts, said he treated a patient with an intense fear of eyeballs. “He was ...

Phobias are often dismissed as quirky or humorous, but for those who experience them, they are anything but trivial. A phobia can be defined as an intense, irrational fear of an object, situation ...

Another story that went viral this week after The Local was first to cover it, was a Swedish health supplement company ...