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Consider, for example, a mock execution or a situation in which a victim with an extreme rat phobia lies naked on the ground with his arms and legs tied to stakes while dozens of rats are placed all over his body and face.
Sometimes Ms. Sabrena wondered whether Nawal suffered from selective mutism, an extreme social phobia characterized by an inability to speak in certain settings.
"That's really what the core of this mechanism is". Siegelman's dental practice isn't typical -- he specializes in people who have extreme dental phobias.
In extreme cases, the phobia may dictate the person's employment, job location, driving route, recreational and social activities, or home environment.
On the other end of the extreme, a general phobia of AIDS was exacerbated by the news media who erroneously reported that AIDS could be contracted by household contact, without checking any facts in their stories, which prompted mass hysteria across the United States.
However, it is also the basis of seriously disturbed states of mind, as in extreme and disabling phobias and in paranoid delusions.
Phobia, an extreme, irrational fear of a specific object or situation.
The anti-atomistic strand in the thought of the positivists was an extreme manifestation of their phobia regarding anything unobservable.
