Quotes About Phobias

I have, since the age of about 2, been a twitchy bundle of phobias, fears, and neuroses. And I have, since the age of 10, when I was first taken to a mental hospital for evaluation and then referred to a psychiatrist for treatment, tried in various ways to overcome my anxiety.

Where did phobias come from? Sachs wondered. Some childhood trauma, some genetic imprinting

common phobias of heights and snakes can be cured relatively easily through short-term desensitization therapy.

What Hitler did was advertise unoriginal ideas in an original way. He gave voice to phobias, prejudice, and resentment as no one else could. Others could say the same thing but make no impact at all. It was less what he said, than how he said it that counted. As it was to be throughout his 'career', presentation was what mattered.

We fear something before we hate it; a child who fears noises becomes a man who hates noises.

Was it possible this big, athletic godboy of war was afraid of spiders? Yes, it was. Lots of people were. She wasn't that crazy about them herself. But being around Tithonus had made her much less afraid of arachnids—and insects as well—than she might've been otherwise.

Mine are the deep-seated fears established when we are children, and they never quite go away: the fear of being helpless, the fear of being trapped, the fear of being out of control.

Virtual reality has already proved useful in treating phobias and PTSD. It can help people overcome a fear of heights, for example, through simulations of standing on a balcony or walking across a bridge.

In this post-Freudian world in which we live, we have put the phobias and neuroses at the center and pushed "normalcy" out to the margin. More and more, we are doing the same for ugliness: enshrining it at the heart of our culture, while beauty is left to atrophy and decay.

For there's a lot of masochism in the acting profession. We're willing to take a lot of punishment, but the minute we hit a little bit of success we are liable to run from it. We're frightened of it and develop all kinds of phobias as a consequence. Outsiders who don't understand think we have a chip on our shoulder, but it's not that at all. We're so used to failure, to being hurt and rebuffed, that we can easily come unhinged by success.

In nightmares we can think the worst. That's what they're for, I guess.

He revels in obscure words, as in his list of phobias including pteronophobia (tickling with feathers), xenoglossophobia (foreign languages), scorodophobia (garlic), as well as in his tour through various techniques of divination, including geloscopy (the interpretation of laughter), bletonism (analyzing currents of water), and sciomancy (shadows or ghosts).

There are two kinds of fears: rational and irrational- or in simpler terms, fears that make sense and fears that don't.

Cole chuckled, saying, "Fear of spiders is arachnophobia, and fear of tight spaces is claustrophobia, but fear of Ali Bell is just called logic.

The day your heart fills only with fear and insecurities, everything you see becomes the ghost that you were always scared of.

If you wish to fear nothing consider that everything is to be feared.

Tell us your phobias and we will tell you what you are afraid of

I have no phobias. Phobias are irrational. My fears are rational and CAREFULLY CULTIVATED, like roses.

He can't walk down steps … can't walk down hills. [He's got] mental blocks … [He] can't handle numbers … they have no meaning to him.

Women are afraid of mice and of murder, and of very little in between.

People who aren't asleep when Ruby comes around have to take sleeping pills. Everyone is afraid of those pills- even the substance- abuse guests.