A new study shows that having a severe phobia can hasten aging. But what if my greatest fear IS aging?!?

When you explore your fears then you set yourself free.

When you have mastered fear then you have mastered all.

When you have fear then the world is a big place. When you have courage then the world shrinks.

Fear can make a moth seem the size of a bull elephant.

For me, boviscopophobia (=the morbid fear of being seen as bovine) is an even stronger motive than semi-agoraphobia for staying on the ship when we’re in port.

After all the shit that went down with Calease, I hate sleeping the way some people hate airplanes. Or small, dark spaces. Or spiders. Or being on an airplane in a small, dark space filled...

My father had a lifelong terror, phobia whatever, about hospitals. Makes a lot of sense in hindsight. He was so scared of doctors, he passed that on to me. That’s what parents exist for: to...

I’m so scared of commitment that I even hate stickers. I mean, once they’re stuck, that’s it. No going back now. Stupid stickers.

Haymitch isn’t thinking of arenas, but something else. “Johanna’s back in the hospital.”I assumed Johanna was fine, had passed her exam, but simply wasn’t assigned to a sharp shooters’ unit. She’s wicked with a throwing...

I suffer from CLAUSTROPHOBIA, a fear of closed spaces.For example, I’m petrified that the WINE store will be closed before I have time to get there!!!