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Germ Phobia - Fear from Germs

     

What is Germ Phobia?

Germ phobia is a kind of obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD). Experts don't know for sure what causes OCD. It may be a chemical imbalance, which can be helped with certain medicines; it could be a brain communication issue. Germ phobia may be mild or severe, and may last for decades.

Talk to a health care professional if you feel that your germ concerns are irrational, or are taking over too much of your life.

Germ Phobics Symptoms and reactions

Germ phobics worry about things that aren't really dangerous in terms of germs they carry. They look for minutest details for the germs. Hotel sheets and towels, for example, or airline pillows and blankets.

One of the most well known germ phobics was Howard Hughes, who became so obsessed with germs that he could not bathe, not eat most foods, or not drink most beverages, germs being literally everywhere he touched, and eventually, he became entirely confined to a single room on his hotel floor.

Types and varieties of Germ Phobia

Germ phobia ranges from relatively mild - where one might simply be afraid to use public toilets, without some type of barrier or it can be so severe as to be completely devastating for daily chores, in which individuals with germ phobia cannot leave their homes, and may themselves actually live in filth, because they cannot touch anything for fear of catching germs.


Phobia of different kinds
Gynophobia
Glossophobia
Genophobia
Haphephobia
Heliophobia
Hemaphobia
Hexakosioihexe kontahexaphobia
Hippopotomonstro sesquippedaliophobia
Hydrophobia
Hypnophobia
Russophobia
Scopophobia
Paraskavedek atriaphobia
Ichthyophobia
Judeophobia
Lachanophobia
Lygophobia
Mysophobia
Monophobia
Musophobia
Necrophobia
Neophobia
Nyctophobia
Ophidiophobia
Ornithophobia
Osmophobia
Pyrophobia
Papaphobia
Pathophobia
Pediophobia
Peladophobia
Pentheraphobia
Phalacrophobia
Phasmophobia
Philophobia
Phobophobia
Photophobia
Phonophobia
Pogonophobia
Polyphobia
Selachophobia
Sinophobia
Taphephobi
Technophobia
Thanatophobia
Theophobia
Tocophobia
Toxiphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
Trypanophobia
Xanthophobia
Xenophobia
Zemmiphobia
Zoophobia


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