Sentence examples for developed a phobia from inspiring English sources

And Abraham Lincoln developed a phobia.

"I developed a phobia of Los Angeles," says David Grand.

Additionally, she suddenly developed a phobia of driving that limited her scant freedom even more.

I developed a phobia of speaking to people in a professional context.

When his company closed in 1992, Bell said he developed a "phobia" of financial and tax-related issues.

By 1995, a year before the murder, he'd developed a phobia of the color black, believing it was a sign of his impending death.

"Quite often people who have gone through this experience require counselling afterwards as they develop a phobia about going to sleep," says Hutton.

A person develops a phobia when their brain has learned to respond to certain non-dangerous situations (such as seeing a small spider) with a "fight-or-flight" response, which causes symptoms that include panic attacks, palpitations, hysterical crying, and the urge to run.

I love walking, even if, thanks to Posy Simmonds, who kills off a character in Tamara Drewe in a bovine stampede, I have recently developed a cow phobia.

Over in the US, the courier industry died off rather more abruptly, when 9/11 was followed by a series of mail-borne anthrax attacks and Americans developed a healthy phobia of anything that came in an envelope.

Nothing could be more miserable than the way Howard Hughes, the once-swashbuckling billionaire of the aviation industry and movie world who developed a germ phobia, spent his last years: He ended his days stark naked in a cocoon of tissues.