Phobias
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A phobia is the abnormal fear of an object or situation.
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By: Caroline Paré Follow
50 mins
A phobia is the abnormal fear of an object or situation.
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Among the phobias, there are those about which one speaks readily and those, more numerous in general, which one keeps secret.
Claustrophobia, agoraphobia, arachnophobia ... If some are well known to the general public, others are less so.
Thus, nomophobia is the fear of losing your cell phone, ergophobes have fear, even hatred of work.
How to explain our phobias?
How to learn to manage them?
Do parents pass their phobias on to their children?
Anne-Victoire Rousselet,
psychologist and psychotherapist specializing in cognitive therapy at
the Sainte-Anne hospital center in Paris.
At the end of the program, we find the nutrition column of
Stéphane Besançon
, nutritionist for the NGO Santé Diabète in Bamako, Mali.
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