Anxiety after eating refers to the experience of heightened worry, fear, or panic that occurs during or following a meal. This phenomenon is more common than many realise and can manifest through a range of physical and emotional symptoms. It can be a temporary response to a specific meal...
Postpartum OCDÂ (perinatal OCD) is a treatable yet often under-recognised mental health condition characterised by the onset or exacerbation of obsessive-compulsive symptoms during pregnancy or within the first year after childbirth. It involves unbidden, intrusive thoughts (obsessions)...
A phobia is an intense, irrational, and persistent fear of a specific object, situation, or activity that poses little to no actual danger. It is classified as a type of anxiety disorder and goes far beyond ordinary nervousness or fear. While everyone feels anxious occasionally, a phobia...
The phobia of being alone, clinically known as autophobia or monophobia, is an intense and irrational fear of isolation, loneliness, or being by oneself. This fear can be triggered even when a person is physically in a safe place, like their home, or remarkably, even when they are in the...
Phone phobia is an umbrella term that describes an intense and irrational fear or anxiety associated with mobile phones. This can manifest in two primary ways. The first is nomophobia (no-mobile-phone phobia), which is the fear of being without access to one’s mobile phone, often...
