More than 16 million of us apparently suffer from an anxiety disorder or phobia that affects our lives in some way. But today, the Government will announce a multi-million-pound grant to fund ...

As one of the most common phobias, aerophobia affects more than 25 million adults in the United States, according to the Cleveland Clinic. It most commonly affects people between ages 17 and 34 ...

Chloe has revealed the devastating impact her phobia had on her life (Picture: Supplied) A woman who has bravely overcome her debilitating phobia as part of a new TV show has revealed the ...

For people with everyday phobias they have to face daily, the treatment could be genuinely life-changing. In the UK alone, an estimated 10 million people suffer from a phobia. The show itself ...

Some people are afraid of string. Seeing a ball of twine brings them out in a cold sweat. Don't believe me? Get knotted - it's a recognised medical condition, called linonophobia. The clinical ...

(Photo Credit: iStock/Getty Images) If you have social anxiety disorder (SAD), also known as social phobia, the stress of these situations is too much to handle. You might, for example, avoid all ...

Pittsburgh is known as the city of bridges, but it is also a city of steps. With Pittsburgh’s hilly topography, public staircases are omnipresent throughout the city’s neighborhoods — and one book is ...

We are a strange species. As human beings, we have accomplished the physically impossible, yet somehow, the concept of phobias is still rampant within our society. It is astounding how many of us are ...

And Devereaux has such a debilitating phobia of sausage dogs that he completely freaks out, palms sweating and skin itching. “It’s crippling,” he says. These phobias may sound almost comical ...