Is there a phobia of mothers?

Tokophobia is a distressing psychological disorder which may be overlooked by medical professionals; as well as specific phobia and anxiety disorders, tokophobia may be associated with depression and post-traumatic stress disorder.
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What is Lokiophobia?

Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and can lead to avoidance of childbirth.[2] It can be classified as primary or secondary. Primary tokophobia is morbid fear of childbirth in a woman, who has had no previous experience of pregnancy. The dread of childbirth may start in adolescence or early adulthood.
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What is Pediophobia?

Pediophobia is a fear of dolls or inanimate objects that look real, and pedophobia is a fear of actual children. People can suffer from both phobias, so someone who fears children (pedophobia) may also fear the childlike features of dolls (pediophobia), and someone with pediophobia may also have pedophobia.
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What are symptoms of tokophobia?

Tokophobia is a type of specific phobia, which is an anxiety disorder in which people feel an irrational and unreasonable amount of fear about a specific object or situation. Symptoms of tokophobia can include sleep disturbances, panic attacks, nightmares, and avoidance behaviors.
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What is Mageirocophobia?

Mageirocophobia is an extreme fear of cooking. It's a specific phobia, meaning that it causes fear of a particular situation. Mageirocophobia may stem from other mental health issues, including: Obsessive-compulsive disorder (OCD), known for its repetitive thoughts and urges.
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What is Glossophobia?

Glossophobia, or a fear of public speaking, is a very common phobia and one that is believed to affect up to 75% of the population. Some individuals may feel a slight nervousness at the very thought of public speaking, while others experience full-on panic and fear.
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What is the fear of Catoptrophobia?

What is eisoptrophobia? You may have eisoptrophobia if you have an intense fear of mirrors. Eisoptrophobia is a specific phobia, which means it causes fear of a particular situation. The fear is typically much greater than the actual risk of danger. Eisoptrophobia may also be called spectrophobia or catoptrophobia.
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What causes tokophobia?

Causes of tokophobia include: Having a history of abuse or rape that makes you feel shameful about being pregnant. Feeling pressured into having an uncomplicated vaginal birth. Learning of other people's bad experiences during childbirth.
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Is tokophobia normal?

It is rare, but some women are so afraid of giving birth that they don't want to go through with it, even if they really want to have the baby. A severe fear of childbirth may also affect their decision on how to give birth to their baby. This is called Tokophobia and it can happen in any pregnancy.
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Is it scary to have a baby?

It is totally normal to be scared to have a baby. Many women are. Getting pregnant and giving birth to a child is a tremendous event in your life that will bring about life changing circumstances. Many people even doubt that they would be good parents.
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What is this Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia?

hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (uncountable) (humorous) The fear of long words.
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What is Sesquipedalophobia?

Noun. sesquipedalophobia (uncountable) Fear of long words.
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What is Megalophobia the fear of?

What is megalophobia? Megalophobia is a type of anxiety disorder in which a person experiences intense fear of large objects. A person with megalophobia experiences intense fear and anxiety when they think of or are around large objects such as large buildings, statues, animals and vehicles.
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What is Megalohydrothalassophobia?

megalohydrothalassophobia (fear of large underwater creatures or objects) cymophobia (fear of waves)
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What fear is Submechanophobia?

Submechanophobia (from Latin sub 'under'; and from Ancient Greek μηχανή (mechané) 'machine' and φόβος (phóbos) 'fear') is a fear of submerged human-made objects, either partially or entirely underwater.
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Is Submechanophobia a real phobia?

Submechanophobia, the fear of partially or fully submerged man-made objects, such as cars, includes many possible subtypes and is related to a variety of basic fears surrounding bodies of water.
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What is hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia mean?

hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia (uncountable) (chiefly Christianity) Fear of the number 666.
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What is the 2nd longest phobia name?

2. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (36 letters) Ironically, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is one of the longest work in the dictionary and is the name for a fear of long words!
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What is the 52 letter word?

Aequeosalinocalcalinoceraceoaluminosocupreovitriolic. This is the longest word in English which is composed of seven words. This 52-letter word was coined by Dr. Edward Strother to describe the spa waters in Bath, England.
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How many letters are in Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis?

1 Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis (forty-five letters): A lung disease caused by the inhalation of silica or quartz dust.
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What's the hardest age of having a baby?

In fact, age 8 is so tough that the majority of the 2,000 parents who responded to the 2020 survey agreed that it was the hardest year, while age 6 was better than expected and age 7 produced the most intense tantrums.
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