Specific phobias are out-of-proportion fears to objects, animals or situations, and fortunately, they can be treated.

People aren't born with a clown phobia, but they can certainly be genetically predispositioned to have an anxiety disorder. But a specific fear of clowns either comes because you had a traumatic ...

Medically reviewed by Dakari Quimby, PhDA phobia is an extreme irrational fear of something. It is a type of anxiety disorder that emerges, on average, at age 9 or 10. There are different kinds of ...

So just what is it about clowns that makes people hide under their seats? Phobia specialist Adam Cox shares a few theories about why we might find them scary. “Firstly, they are unnatural,” he ...

A disabled woman who has an extreme phobia of clowns chasing her in her wheelchair decided to try 'exposure therapy' - by ...

People aren't born with a clown phobia, but they can certainly be genetically predispositioned to have an anxiety disorder. But a specific fear of clowns either comes because you had a traumatic ...

Phobias come in many different forms. Acrophobia is the fear of heights. Aviophobia is the fear of flying. Felinophobia is the fear of cats. Myxophobia is the fear of slime. Xyrophobia is the fear ...