An Excess of Phobias and ManiasSenior Scribe Publications, 2003 - 202 páginas |
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... anxious about warm water or cold water . Ablutophobia extends to taking baths , taking showers , and swimming . Bath Room I test my bath before I sit , And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so ...
... anxious about warm water or cold water . Ablutophobia extends to taking baths , taking showers , and swimming . Bath Room I test my bath before I sit , And I'm always moved to wonderment That what chills the finger not a bit Is so ...
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... anxious when they approach the edge of bridges , roof- tops , stairwells , and railings . Sometimes individuals have an uncon- trollable urge to jump . They may have fantasies and physical sensa- tions of falling even when standing on ...
... anxious when they approach the edge of bridges , roof- tops , stairwells , and railings . Sometimes individuals have an uncon- trollable urge to jump . They may have fantasies and physical sensa- tions of falling even when standing on ...
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... anxious about what is perceived to be cats staring at them . aeroacrophobia : Fear of open - high places . aerohygrophobia : Plants that are intolerant of high atmospheric humi- dity . aeronausiphobia : An intensive fear of airplanes or ...
... anxious about what is perceived to be cats staring at them . aeroacrophobia : Fear of open - high places . aerohygrophobia : Plants that are intolerant of high atmospheric humi- dity . aeronausiphobia : An intensive fear of airplanes or ...
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... anxious about being airsick themselves or of seeing others afflicted with the resultant vomiting . Those who have this phobia are anxious about the possibility of the plane flying through turbulent air as it rises and drops abruptly ...
... anxious about being airsick themselves or of seeing others afflicted with the resultant vomiting . Those who have this phobia are anxious about the possibility of the plane flying through turbulent air as it rises and drops abruptly ...
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... anxious ; especially , when they can not explain its cause to their doctor or to others around them . alkaline soils ( plants ) : basiphobia , basophobia alliumphobia : An abnormal fear of garlic that may extend to a variety of plants ...
... anxious ; especially , when they can not explain its cause to their doctor or to others around them . alkaline soils ( plants ) : basiphobia , basophobia alliumphobia : An abnormal fear of garlic that may extend to a variety of plants ...
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abnormal anxiety abnormal desire abnormal fear abnormal interest acrophobia addiction afraid agoraphobia alcoholic animals Anonymous anthropophobia ants anxious apprehension associated aversion avoid believe biology blood cancer cats cause cenophobia characterized cigarettes cold compulsion contamination coulrophobia craving craze cryophobia cynophobia darkness death delusion disease dislike dizziness drink dysmorphophobia eating erythrophobia especially Evan Esar exaggerated fear excessive desire excessive fear extreme fear fascination fear of becoming fear of heights fear or hatred feel germs gerontophobia going Greek element hair herpetophobia hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia individual insanity insects intense fear intolerant irrational dread irrational fear Islamophobia kleptomania light ligyrophobia live looking mania McGee morbid fear morbid impulse musophobia night nymphomania objects obsession obsessive-compulsive disorders Ogden Nash one's osmophobia pain panic person phobia phonophobia plants pygoscopophobia result sexual smoking social someone spaces specific spiders stings symptoms talk term terror things thunderstorms tobacco triskaidekaphobia trypanophobia uncontrollable usually vomiting walking washing words
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Página 21 - If a man does not keep pace with his companions, perhaps it is because he hears a different drummer. Let him step to the music which he hears, however measured or far away.
Página 144 - So first of all let me assert my firm belief that the only thing we have to fear is fear itself — nameless, unreasoning, unjustified terror which paralyzes needed efforts to convert retreat into advance.
Página 136 - My apprehensions come in crowds ; I dread the rustling of the grass ; The very shadows of the clouds Have power to shake me as they pass ; I question things, and do not find One that will answer to my mind ; And all the world appears unkind.
Página 127 - The sweet buds every one. When rocked to rest on their mother's breast, As she dances about the sun. I wield the flail of the lashing hail, And whiten the green plains under; And then again I dissolve it in rain. And laugh as I pass in thunder.
Página 59 - Good friend, for Jesus' sake forbear To dig the dust enclosed here : Blest be the man that spares these stones, And curst be he that moves my bones.
Página 168 - When I was a boy of fourteen, my father was so ignorant I could hardly stand to have the old man around. But when I got to be twenty-one, I was astonished at how much he had learned in seven years.
Página 171 - Come lovely and soothing death, Undulate round the world, serenely arriving, arriving, In the day, in the night, to all, to each, Sooner or later delicate death. Prais'd be the fathomless universe, For life and joy, and for objects and knowledge curious, And for love, sweet love — but praise! praise! praise! For the sure-enwinding arms of cool-enfolding death.
Página 182 - If a man does not make new acquaintances as he advances through life, he will soon find himself left alone. A man, sir, should keep his friendship in constant repair.