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Social phobia, also called social anxiety disorder, is fear of social situations where you may be embarrassed or judged.
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There is no specific phobia for the fear of anxiety. However, people with anxiety disorders can experience a range of fears that are related to their anxiety, such as fear of panic attacks or fear of losing control.
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Is there a phobia name for the fear of tomatoes?
Yes, the fear of tomatoes is known as "lycopersicophobia." It is a specific phobia that causes individuals to experience anxiety or fear when encountering or thinking about tomatoes.
What phobia is the fear of being judged?
The phobia you may be talking about is known as social phobia or social anxiety. More information on this phobia that is often left misunderstood can be found here: www.anxietynetwork.com/spleast.html I hope this helps :D
What is the phobia name of the fear of exercise?
A phobia is a clinical description of a set of specific symptoms related to anxiety disorders. There are, clinically speaking, very few of them. There may be one for exercise anxiety, but we are not aware of it and it seems rather unlikely.
What is the fear of being around people called?
The fear of being around people is called social anxiety or social phobia. It is characterized by feelings of fear, nervousness, or discomfort in social situations.
What is bat phobia called?
The fear of bats is called chiroptophobia. It is a specific phobia that can cause intense anxiety and panic when encountering or even thinking about bats.
What phobia is the fear of being percieved as pretentious?
Fear of judgement is generalized as a social anxiety phobia.
What is the fear of phobia of being embarrassed?
Social phobia or social anxiety disorder
What phobia is the fear of awkwardness?
I don't think their is necessarily a phobia that is the 'fear of awkwardness', but often social anxiety can produce a fear of awkwardness.
What phobia is the fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations?
social anxiety social anxiety
What phobia is the fear of door knobs?
The fear of door knobs is known as ostiumtractophobia. A phobia is an irrational fear of a situation or object that causes extreme distress in some people. A phobia is considered a type of anxiety disorder.
What phobia is the fear of participating?
It is specifically called 'fear of failure'. It can also be termed in general as 'performance anxiety'.
What is the fear of everything?
The fear of everything has four names which are interchangable: Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia. This phobia may not be a true phobia, but instead an anxiety disorder.
What phobia is the fear pf pastors?
Social Anxiety Disorder, OCD, PTSD
Is there a name for social phobia?
Social Phobia or Social Anxiety Disorder - Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations
Fear of people looking at you?
It's called social phobia, or Social Anxiety Disorder.
What do you call to phobia in cockroach?
Phobias are an anxiety disorder in which someone's fear of something is extreme and irrational. The phobia of cockroaches is called katsaridaphobia.
What name given to phobia fear of lawsuits?
There is no name.There is no such thing as a "phobia fear" - this is a nonsense phrase: a phobia is a persistent state of anxiety attached to a particular object and/or situation.A fear is not an anxiety. A fear may be rational, or irrational.Law suites may arouse several different thoughts and feelings in a person. These may be experienced as a confusion of thoughts and feelings, eg. as an 'inner turmoil' characterised by persistent inability to focus the mind and/or the emotions. None of these is a phobia.
