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• Touch Stick: A Stylus For Germophobes

  
  remove the labels | Gadgets and Life — Authority: 135
  If you are the sort of person that is scared about putting your fingers where others have been before, rejoice, as thanks to an inexpensive prophylactic pointer, you no longer have to touch things with your own skin. According to the manufacturer: Great for keypads/point-of-sale terminals in stores, ATMs, elevator ...
  12 hours ago

• Vegetable-Phobic Vicki

  
  Popular Fidelity — Authority: 558
  Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old woman from  Portsmouth, England, has a very unusual fear.  It’s not clowns or horses or the outdoors.  Those are all fairly normal.  Vicki is a lachanophobic, which means that she’s afraid of vegetables . As it turns out, it’s not just an excuse for kids to avoid eating their ...
  19 hours ago

• Potty humor

  
  By the lbs — Authority: 117
  Last month on our trip to the pumpkin patch, DynaGirl insisted I take a picture of this:                     A closer look:   That’s all I have to say about that.
  1 day ago

• The Menace of Moose Heads

  
  facenews — Authority: 122
  By Elizabeth Collins Who, in this reading audience, hates moose and thinks they should die, should be wiped off the face of the Earth? (Sarah Palin, put your hand down.) Moose aren’t typically seen as evil—they’re innocently goofy-looking, slow lumbering, vegetarian beasts. They’re even mildly cute in a ...
  1 day ago

• Suffering A Fear Of Mushrooms

  
  Health & Fitness — Authority: 147
  The fear of mushrooms is called Mycophobia. The number of confirmed sufferers is relatively small as phobias go but thats no consolation if you happen to be afflicted with this problem. Most people have a healthy respect for the wild mushroom after childhood training to avoid them. Safety is a valid concern. When the ...
  1 day ago

• Friggin Phobias

  
  The Friggin Loon — Authority: 151
  Boo! Well, well, well who has a phobia then? A phobia is a strong persistent fear of an object, situation, activity or person. Deep down everyone has a fear of some sort, but when the fear becomes beyond your control it becomes a phobia. Interestingly, people can get a phobia from just about anything. The most ...
  2 days ago

• You Are Not Alone In Your Fear Of Mushrooms

  
  Very Good Search Info Center — Authority: 165
  The official term for fear of mushrooms is Mycophobia and it is not nearly as uncommon as people may believe. Every child has been taught to avoid wild mushrooms in the yard and most wild mushrooms are poisonous. This early training to avoid mushrooms may be one of the reasons for the fear of mushrooms. Mycophobics ...
  2 days ago

• Review: Dreamkiller (PC)

  
  Aeropause Games — Authority: 484
  After playing through Dreamkiller, I spent a week trying to put together the review for the game.  It is not like I hated the game, or overly liked the game, but it was more about me trying to place the game in a proper context.  Some will enjoy it, and some will hate it, but it does carve out a niche of its own, ...
  6 days ago

• Suffering A Fear Of Mushrooms

  
  Health & Fitness Blog — Authority: 163
  The official term for fear of mushrooms is Mycophobia and it is not nearly as uncommon as people may believe. Every child has been taught to avoid wild mushrooms in the yard and most wild mushrooms are poisonous. This early training to avoid mushrooms may be one of the reasons for the fear of mushrooms. Mycophobics ...
  1 week ago

• The Secret That Lies Hidden In Your Subconscious Mind | Virtual …

  
  Hypnosis MagazineHypnosis Magazine — Authority: 150
  Your subconscious mind is the powerhouse behind your automatic habits and behaviors. As an example, this remarkable part of your mind lets you drive your car. View original here:  The Secret That Lies Hidden In Your Subconscious Mind | Virtual … BlogBabel Tags: downloads , Hypnosis , hypnosis-downloads , ...
  1 week ago

• Research-Backed Online Mental Health Interventions

  
  World of Psychology — Authority: 609
  So the other week I attended and presented at the First International e-Mental Health Summit 2009 in Amsterdam and already discussed some great online interventions for depression . I’m still planning on talking about additional online interventions for other mental disorders, but am waiting for the conference ...
  1 week ago

• Anxiety

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Anxiety can be defined as emotions which are typically negative in nature. It will often consist of fear and worry, and some organisms may even experience physical signs such as nausea or chest pains. Anxiety is a complex emotion, and is composed of a number of different elments. Some of these elements are somatic or ...
  1 week ago

• The Art of Enlightened Success with Jamie Smart | Virtual Hypnosis

  
  Hypnosis MagazineHypnosis Magazine — Authority: 150
  “I’ve spent over $70000 this year alone to acquire the secrets of Enlightened Success, & now I’m going to share them with you” The Art of. Original post: The Art of Enlightened Success with Jamie Smart | Virtual Hypnosis BlogBabel Tags: downloads , health-hypnosis , Hypnosis , hypnotic-state , ...
  1 week ago

• How I Came Back From Ten Years Of Anxiety And Panic To Fully Recover

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  The most common question I have been asked over the years is why do I feel so strange and detached from the outside world. Here is a chatper on this particualr symptom from a book I wrote on the whole Anxiety/Panic subject.DepersonalisationIn the process of writing this book I covered the feeling of detachment from ...
  1 week ago

• 10 bizarre phobias you did not know about

  
  Fun Facts — Authority: 440
  A phobia is an extreme fear of something; a place, a person, an object, it could be anything. Thousands of people worldwide suffer from phobias of different types with varying intensities that can range from mild to modest to chronic. There are several causes that lead to such phobia. The fear may arise due to ...
  1 week ago

• Solutions For Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  This article is aimed at helping people who are often in a state of depression. I have had many of periods in my life where I have found it difficult to carry on and where in truth I have wished that my life would just end.Depression affects people in many different ways. From a personal [...]
  1 week ago

• Spiders? Im not Afraid of Spiders

  
  It's Not All Gravy — Authority: 121
  Today being Halloween Eve, if Halloween is important enough to have an Eve, I thought I would have some fun with spiders... er, I mean about spiders. Im not nearly as terrified of them as I used to be, but still, there are limits. I thought about doing this blog the other day when I took this picture. This spider ...
  1 week ago

• Atypical Depression – The Most Common Form of Depression

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Atypical depression, a subtype of major depression, is the most common form of depression today. People who suffer atypical depression exhibit all the normal symptoms of depression but they also react to external positive experiences in a positive way. Atypical depression sufferers respond to their environment, ...
  1 week ago

• How Can You Identify Postpartum Depression?

  
  Wish Everyone Good Health. — Authority: 464
  Sometimes women suffer with depression immediately after child birth and this depression is known as postpartum depression. There are five kinds of postpartum depression, any of which can occur after child birth; however similar depression can also occur before or during pregnancy as well.Patients of postpartum ...
  1 week ago

• Weekend Wellness Wisdom

  
  Good for You! — Authority: 125
  Halloween brings potential health and safety hazards, but there’s no need to take all of the fun out of the night! Keep the boos from becoming boo-hoos by following some tricks (and treats) of the trade.> Creeped out by calories? Get the stats on 9 sweet Halloween treats> Before you hack away at that ...
  1 week ago

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