Buttons and pickles, closed spaces, open spaces, small holes, spiders, heights, being left alone - turns out everything is terrible and can scare the heebie-jeebies right out of you.
Actor Radhika Apte’s intense, psychological thriller, Phobia, hitting the big screen this weekend deals with agoraphobia - the irrational fear of open spaces. While the trailer made us scream and want to crawl to safety, the fact is that phobia is a misunderstood term.
According to studies, phobias affect nearly 10% of all adults in the world but a lot of people people use the term ‘I am afraid of’ in the same breath as ‘I’m phobic to’ - the two aren’t interchangeable. It is perfectly okay to be fearful of a thing (or four), what is not okay is to loosely use the word ‘phobia’ or confuse it with every irrational fear you have.
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