The corridors of corporate headquarters and startup offices may seem like strongholds of confidence, but beneath the polished ...

Everyone knows someone who is afraid of spiders, heights or flying. However, some people develop more unusual phobias, such as a fear of balloons or bananas. A banana may sound harmless to someone ...

Have you ever wondered if the great minds of history wrestled with the same peculiar fears that haunt ordinary people today?

Everyone knows someone who is afraid of spiders, heights or flying. However, some people develop more unusual phobias, such as a fear of balloons or bananas. A banana may sound harmless to someone ...

Phobias are often associated with common fears like heights, spiders or the dark, but the human mind can form anxieties around things far more unusual and that can be imagined generally. Hidden deep ...

Everyone has a few weird anxieties and odd circumstances that might result in some level of fear. However, when the fear becomes aspirated or excessive, it might become a phobia. A phobia is described ...

Going to the beach, passing a piercing parlor or watching a Britney Spears music video causes little distress for most. For sufferers of omphalophobia, or the fear of belly buttons, these incidents ...

A phobia can be loosely defined as an extreme fear of something. While most of us can say we're afraid of common things like heights, a phobia is a much more intense fear that can cause panic attacks ...

Nearly everybody has a phobia, but we’ve found some are certainly quirkier than others You know the feeling: clammy hands, shortness of breath, anxiety and fear. No, we aren’t talking about that ...

This week we asked listeners and social media followers to tell us about unusual things that may scare them. Not international terrorism or certifiable phobias, but real fears we carry around that ...