Phobias

  • NewsYahoo Life UK

    Dad overcomes fear of flying to help son, 7, 'become a pilot' after mum's death

    Jacob Newson has now completed his first flying lesson, making him one of the youngest pilots in the UK.

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    What is trypophobia, the unusual phobia Love Island star Yewande Biala suffers from?

    "Do you know there's some weird sponges and they have loads and loads of little circles? It creeps me out."

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  • EntertainmentAOL

    This is your biggest phobia - according to your star sign

    Spiders, snakes, heights... almost everyone has some kind of phobia. But according to the video above, your star sign dictates what your most common phobia or fear is likely to be. Take a look and see if you think it's

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    Donald Trump's fear of stairs and 13 other unusual phobias

    There’s no way you missed that video clip of Donald Trump and Theresa May holding hands during her visit to the states. All over the UK, while we’d heard about maintaining a ‘special relationship’ with the US, we suddenly feared we’d got the wrong end of the stick and that it was a different kind of, uh, ‘special’ relationship altogether.

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    Chef forced to quit by baked bean phobia

    Rob Griffiths, a 31 year old ex-chef from Milton Keynes, has revealed that he was forced to leave the profession after developing a baked bean phobia. He said that as soon as he sees them he feels faint, and if they get anywhere near him he

  • HealthAOL

    Coping with agoraphobia

    Phobias are never pleasant for their sufferers, but in many cases it is possible to avoid the situations that trigger those feelings of fear. However, for agoraphobics, those avoidance techniques can cause serious problems that greatly affect their

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