An Excess of Phobias and ManiasSenior Scribe Publications, 2003 - 202 páginas |
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... obsessive - compulsive disorder . Because personal hygiene is a means to control infectious diseases , the absence of dirt is not merely an esthetic adornment . Cleanliness is doubtless an acquired taste . -Jay Stuller " Cleanliness has ...
... obsessive - compulsive disorder . Because personal hygiene is a means to control infectious diseases , the absence of dirt is not merely an esthetic adornment . Cleanliness is doubtless an acquired taste . -Jay Stuller " Cleanliness has ...
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... obsessive desire to have " fresh " air in which a person is always leaving windows open ; sometimes , despite cold conditions . anemophobia , ancraophobia : 1. An abnormal fear of drafts , cyclones , winds , hurricanes , etc. Some ...
... obsessive desire to have " fresh " air in which a person is always leaving windows open ; sometimes , despite cold conditions . anemophobia , ancraophobia : 1. An abnormal fear of drafts , cyclones , winds , hurricanes , etc. Some ...
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... obsessive - compulsive disorders . arithmophobia : There are people who have fears of particular numbers , such as the number thirteen . There are also some phobics who fear the tendency to give so many things a number instead of 30.
... obsessive - compulsive disorders . arithmophobia : There are people who have fears of particular numbers , such as the number thirteen . There are also some phobics who fear the tendency to give so many things a number instead of 30.
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... obsessive - compulsive disorders that are persistent , senseless , intense , and worrisome . They tend to be so excessive at keeping things in order that they make it nearly impossible to exist with others who are of a less - than ...
... obsessive - compulsive disorders that are persistent , senseless , intense , and worrisome . They tend to be so excessive at keeping things in order that they make it nearly impossible to exist with others who are of a less - than ...
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... obsession for collecting and possessing gold for its inher- ent value , utility , beauty , and representative wealth . Remember the golden rule : He who has the gold makes the rules . -Anonymous aurophobia : A strong fear of gold ...
... obsession for collecting and possessing gold for its inher- ent value , utility , beauty , and representative wealth . Remember the golden rule : He who has the gold makes the rules . -Anonymous aurophobia : A strong fear of gold ...
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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.