(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 ...

And young father Ollie overcame a phobia of balloons that made toddlers' birthday parties a torment for him. Mind you, what parent isn't terrified of toddlers' birthday parties?

Dragana Gordic - stock.adobe.com A British mother says her extreme phobia of vomit has left her suicidal — and unable to leave the house. Alex Sim-Wise, 43, says the crippling fear, known as ...

I worry I’m on the road to isolation or hermetism. What should I do about this phone phobia? Do you remember the days before texting, when everybody would just sit on public transport blaring ...

A college is helping students tackle their fear of making or taking telephone calls. Nottingham College is running coaching sessions on phone confidence and etiquette to support them in overcoming ...

The National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) explains that specific phobia is an intense and irrational fear of something that poses little or no real danger. It estimates that 12.5% of adults ...