Trypophobia was fairly recently coined. It's the fear of clusters themselves, or more specifically, clusters of small holes in any substance. I have it quite severely, but there was never any name for it until recently. It's all "thanks" to the internet. You usually have it from early childhood. I read that it's connected to an archetypical fear of flesh-eating diseases and parasites that made one's skin holey. None of these diseases are a problem anymore, but some of us are left with this terrible phobia. Whenever I see or think too long about clusters of holes I feel like I'm going into anaphylactic shock almost. I get hives, I can't breathe, and I feel like I'm going to pass out.
There are tons of images on the internet specifically made by mean trolls to trigger trypophobic reactions. Usually they involve photoshopping images of empty seed pods onto human skin. Yuck! *is itchy*
what is your phobia?
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Google Dictionary is missing some of these. What's emitophobia? What's trypophobia?
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Trypophobia was fairly recently coined. It's the fear of clusters themselves, or more specifically, clusters of small holes in any substance. I have it quite severely, but there was never any name for it until recently. It's all "thanks" to the internet. You usually have it from early childhood. I read that it's connected to an archetypical fear of flesh-eating diseases and parasites that made one's skin holey. None of these diseases are a problem anymore, but some of us are left with this terrible phobia. Whenever I see or think too long about clusters of holes I feel like I'm going into anaphylactic shock almost. I get hives, I can't breathe, and I feel like I'm going to pass out.
There are tons of images on the internet specifically made by mean trolls to trigger trypophobic reactions. Usually they involve photoshopping images of empty seed pods onto human skin. Yuck! *is itchy*