Sentence examples for abnormal fear from inspiring English sources

Monophobia — Becky had to look up the word — an abnormal fear of being alone.

The catalyst, he said, was Prozac, which he said enabled him to overcome agoraphobia, an abnormal fear of open spaces.

In addition, about 50 percent of people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia, an abnormal fear of open or public places that are associated with anxiety-inducing situations or events.

This hypothesis could help us answer an age-old question from most psychiatrists that why SNRIs are also able to treat depression and other mental illnesses by elevating noradrenaline levels in the brain (especially the fear center of the brain), which ought to exacerbate abnormal fear learning.

Becky wished that Jude had put down spiders or darkness or Teletubbies, like his classmates, but he had spelled out his fear neatly: "I still suffer from monophobia". Monophobia Becky had to look up the word an abnormal fear of being alone.

Xenophobia is the "abnormal" fear of foreigners; it is not synonymous with the desire to protect American workers.

"He'd be highly stigmatized, seen as abnormal, feared, shunned, chased out of town," she said.

"When people come to you with fear -- and these aren't psychologically abnormal fears -- these are people with stage 4 cancer and they are facing their own mortality, there's a deep sense of loss of control," Asher says.

Our results suggest that Atxn2-deficiency results in a specific set of behavioral and cellular disturbances that include motor hyperactivity and abnormal fear-related behaviors, but intact hippocampal function.

Our results indicate that Atxn2 knockout mice exhibit a specific set of behavioral and physiological changes including increased exploratory activity, abnormal fear-related behaviors and impaired long-term potentiation (LTP) in the amygdala.

Really abnormal fears are called 'phobias'phobias