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| Other names | Haphophobia |
| Specialty | Psychiatry |
Haphephobia (also known as aphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, thixophobia, aphenphosmphobia) is a rare specific phobia that involves the fear of touching or of being touched.
Signs and symptoms
As with other phobias and anxiety conditions, haphephobia may come with anxiety and stress-related symptoms that vary among those that suffer from it. A non-exhaustive list of potential symptoms that those suffering from haphephobia may have includes:
- Chest pain
- Choking sensation
- Cold or hot flushes
- Cholinergic urticaria
- Dissociation
- Dizziness
- Fear of dying
- Fear of loss of control
- Feeling of being trapped
- Heart palpitations
- Hyperventilation
- Nausea
- Sense of impending danger
- Sweating
- Tingling and shivering sensations
- Trembling
See also
References
- ^ Charles Harrington Elster (1996). There's a Word for It!. Scribner. p. 160. ISBN 0684824558.
- ^ Laurence Urdang; Anne Ryle; Tanya H. Lee (1986). -ologies & -isms. Gale Research Co. pp. 557. ISBN 0810311968.
- "Symptoms". Anxiety and Depression Association of America, ADAA.