For many, Christmas is a time of joyful celebration and cheer. However, that’s not the case for one UK man named Garry Hollidge, who suffers from a “bizarre” fear of Santa Claus so paralyzing that ...

A mom has a phobia of getting sick that’s so extreme she couldn’t bring herself to hold her own daughter’s hand for a week after the 3-year-old fell ill. Maddie Blockley was diagnosed with emetophobia ...

Why Some People Are Born to Be Afraid Scientists are discovering that our tendency to develop certain phobias might be ...

Teddi Mellencamp’s son, Cruz, is undergoing exposure therapy to conquer his fear of elevators. The “Real Housewives of Beverly Hills” alum, 40, gave a glimpse of the 7-year-old’s progress via her ...

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Feeling nervous in social situations is something we all experience from time to time, more often in situations where we may face criticism or experience rejection or evaluation; for example, going on ...

The Somerset County Office of Youth Services has scheduled a “School Phobia” Zoom webinar for education professionals from 10 to 11 a.m. Dec. 16 to help with declining student attendance. The free ...

“I didn’t know I was going to get set on fire during deployment,” Spc. Joseph Stammeyer of the Iowa National Guard said. “But it was fun.” Fun, indeed. Though rarely in the headlines, a force of more ...

This is the Grammar Guy column, a weekly feature written by Curtis Honeycutt. Jerry Seinfeld has an old comedy bit about how people fear public speaking more than they fear dying. “So that means if ...