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Some rare phobias include fear of bathing, fear of mirrors and fear of the color yellow. Individuals who have these phobias often experience extreme anxiety.Aphobiais an irrational fear of an object, situation or living thing. While fear is a natural response to danger, phobias often occur in response to something unlikely to cause real harm. In some cases, a person with a phobia will meet the diagnostic criteria for aspecific phobia, which is a type of anxiety disorder. Someone with a specific phobia will experience intense fear and anxiety when confronted with the source of the phobia, which could include blood, heights or specific animals like dogs.Phobias are characterized by significant distress and often cause a person to avoid the source of their fear or suffer from extreme anxiety when faced with it. Someone experiencing a phobia that is interfering with everyday life should consider undergoingtreatment for their phobia, as outcomes for professional care are typically favorable.What Are the Weirdest and Most Rare Phobias?While most people have heard of common phobias, like the fear of heights (acrophobia) or the fear of spiders (arachnophobia), there are many strange, less talked about phobias. Here is a list of 21 weird and rare phobias you may have never heard of.1. Arachibutyrophobia (Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth)Arachibutyrophobia is the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. While the phenomenon has happened to everyone at one point or another, people with arachibutyrophobia are extremely afraid of it. The severity of arachibutyrophobia varies from person to person. Some with this condition may be able to eat small amounts of peanut butter, but others will completely avoid eating peanut butter or anything with a similar consistency. Treatment Can Be Life Changing. Reach out today. Whether you are struggling with addiction, mental health or both, our expert team is here to guide you every step of the way. Don’t wait— reach out today to take the first step toward taking control of your life. Arachibutyrophobia is a rare phobia that can stem from a greater phobia of sticky things or a fear of choking. It may also stem from a traumatic incident with peanut butter, such as choking on or being allergic to it.2. Nomophobia (Fear of being without your mobile phone)Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone. People with nomophobia experience excessive anxiety about not having their phone with them, their battery being low or their phone being out of service. Regardless of the circumstances, not being able to use their phone causes people with nomophobia to become panicked and experience extreme symptoms of anxiety.This rare phobia often stems from a person having a cell phone addiction. People with this phobia may obsessively check their phones throughout the day and worry they will miss out on contact with loved ones. While nomophobia is generally classified as a rare phobia, cell phone addiction appears to be fairly common. Recentresearchhas shown that around half of both

The bird phobia also called ornithophobia, is irrational and uncontrollable fear of birds, for some people, that fear just goes to birds of prey like vultures, hawks and eagles, among others, while in other cases Even house birds such as parrots or parakeets, as well as the sight of their feathers, are enough to cause an anxiety attack .Human beings can develop fear of almost anything, the phobia of birds is one of the particular ones, since it is manifested by an excess of discomfort and anxiety when the person is near birds, or anticipates facing one.IndexCauses of bird phobiaSymptoms of bird phobiaComplications of bird phobiaTreatment of bird phobiaExposure and relaxation therapyCognitive behavioral therapyMedicinesGeorgia TarrantThere may be different causes or reasons behind excessive fear of birds:Young children can develop ornithophobia if they have felt threatened by aggressive birds such as vultures, hawks, or geese.In some cases, the birds may not have shown any form of violence, but their presence at traumatic events such as funerals or accidents may be enough to trigger a phobia in a young child.Birds flying into houses through an open window and causing disturbances could have made parents nervous and this can trigger an anxiety attack in the child.Images of carnivorous birds attacking small prey like rabbits seen on television shows can sometimes develop a fear of birds in young minds.Most cases of childhood ornithophobia go away on their own, while others can persist even into adulthood.Symptoms of bird phobiaThe symptoms of this phobia vary depending on the severity of the condition. As with any other type of phobia, ornithophobia symptoms can be broadly categorized as mental, physical, or emotional.Some people refuse to eat in places where birds may be present for fear that the birds will steal their food.Ornithophobic individuals fear birds preserved by taxidermists and present in museums, etc. Still others fear all images, photos, or even the feathers of birds.The physical symptoms of this phobia generally include the appearance of a cold sweat, shaking, screaming or crying, increased heart rate, freezing in place, or attempting to flee when seeing birds.Some people are known

Varied and include periods of 3, 4, 9, 15 months, and 5 years after treatment. Treatment effects were maintained in eight of the nine studies with civilian participants; one study (Devilly & Spence, 1999) reported a trend for deterioration. Of the three studies with combat veteran participants only one (Carlson et al., 1998) provided a full course of treatment (12 sessions). This study found that treatment effects were maintained at 9 months. The other two studies provided limited treatment: Devilly, Spence and Rapee (1998) provided two sessions and moderate effects at post-test were not maintained at follow-up. Pitman et al. (1996) treated only two of multiple traumatic memories, and treatment effects were not maintained at 5 year follow-up (Macklin et al., 2000). It appears that the provision of limited treatment may be inadequate to fully treat the disorder, resulting in remission of the partial effects originally achieved. Is EMDR therapy effective in the treatment of phobias, panic disorder, or agoraphobia? There is much anecdotal information that EMDR therapy is effective in the treatment of specific phobias. Unfortunately, the research that has investigated EMDR treatment of phobias, panic disorder, and agoraphobia has failed to find strong empirical support for such applications. Although these results are due in part to methodological limitations in the various studies, it is also possible that EMDR therapy may not be consistently effective with these disorders. De Jongh, Ten Broeke, and Renssen (1999) suggest that since EMDR therapy is a treatment for distressing memories and related pathologies, it may be most effective in treating anxiety disorders which follow a traumatic experience (e.g., dog phobia after a dog bite), and less effective for those of unknown onset (e.g., snake phobia).There have been several randomized clinical trials assessing EMDR treatment of spider phobia (Muris & Merckelbach, 1997; Muris, Merckelbach, van Haaften, & Nayer, 1997; Muris, Merkelbach, Holdrinet, & Sijsenaar, 1998). These studies indicated that EMDR was less effective than in vivo exposure therapy in eliminating the phobia. Methodological limitations of these studies include failure to use the full EMDR treatment protocol (see Shapiro, 1999) and confounding of effects, by using the exposure treatment protocol as the post-treatment assessment. When the full EMDR phobia protocol was used in case studies with medical and dental phobias (De Jongh et al., 1999; De Jongh, van den Oord, & Ten Broeke, 2002), good results were achieved. A randomized controlled trial (Doering et al.,