Mental health professionals spend years training to understand the intricate workings of the human psyche, but certain ...

Have you ever wondered if the great minds of history wrestled with the same peculiar fears that haunt ordinary people today?

The ticking of a clock can feel like a countdown you can’t escape. For people with chronophobia, time itself becomes ...

Everyone knows someone who is afraid of spiders, heights or flying. However, some people develop more unusual phobias, such as a fear of balloons or bananas. A banana may sound harmless to someone ...

Phobias are often associated with common fears like heights, spiders or the dark, but the human mind can form anxieties around things far more unusual and that can be imagined generally. Hidden deep ...

Everyone has a few weird anxieties and odd circumstances that might result in some level of fear. However, when the fear becomes aspirated or excessive, it might become a phobia. A phobia is described ...

A phobia can be loosely defined as an extreme fear of something. While most of us can say we're afraid of common things like heights, a phobia is a much more intense fear that can cause panic attacks ...

How can we count the ways we love Irrational Fears? It’s full of deep, dark secrets, personal confrontation, terror, intrigue, and a picture of a bunch of naked people. Irrational Fears let users ...

This week we asked listeners and social media followers to tell us about unusual things that may scare them. Not international terrorism or certifiable phobias, but real fears we carry around that ...

Butterflies represent transformation and hope … but not for Nicole Kidman. The Oscar winner, 56, developed a phobia of the winged insects as a child in Australia when she came home and found a giant ...

There’s no way you missed that video clip of Donald Trump and Theresa May holding hands during her visit to the states. All over the UK, while we’d heard about maintaining a ‘special relationship’ ...