Word: phobias
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...Like You?" on the National Institute of Mental Health's site ("You get tired easily, yet have trouble sleeping" was one statement that I found particularly relevant), I learned that I may also suffer from generalized anxiety disorder. What don't I have? I'm probably free of social phobia. Sweating and shaking when others look my way doesn't sound like me--though this can depend on who those others...
...Homophobia is not something that even counts as a phobia,” he said...
...replace Lindsay, his appointment hit a snag this week while the White House worked through a slew of undisclosed "personal and professional issues." When President Bush formally named Friedman to replace Lindsay Thursday afternoon, it was only after days of speculation that Friedman's reputation for deficit phobia - he served as a director of the Concord Coalition, a bipartisan group whose members oppose federal budget deficits - might have caught up with him. The White House maintained throughout the delay that they were only following protocol, and that the President never wavered in his support for Friedman...
Committee Phobia...
...lifestyle. The current edition of its professional bible, the Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders IV, contains--among scores of other diagnoses--a long list of specialized labels for a condition that was known in my grandmother's era as the jitters, including Attention-Deficit/Hyperactivity Disorder, Social Phobia, Panic Disorder with Agoraphobia, and Panic Disorder Without Agoraphobia...