The Big Apple is less fearful of pests like roaches, rats and spiders than any other city in the US, a new study has found. New York City residents searched critter-related phobias on Google seven ...

Musophobia is known as an irrational fear of mice and rats. You might fear all rodents or a particular species with which you previously had a scary encounter. A phobia of rodents is common because we ...

“Half an hour after the kids went to bed, one of them came to Steve in the kitchen and said they couldn’t poop bc there was a rat in their toilet,” Cliffe wrote. “Reader, there was a rat ...

It was the first time that Peter has actually cured anybody of a rat phobia. As part of the curing process Peter used a technique called re-imprinting, which sends people into a semi-trance and ...

From a Freudian perspective, avoidability is a crucial factor in differentiating phobias from OCD. In phobia, the distressing thoughts are typically avoidable; individuals can distance themselves from ...

She’ll use VR to overcome her rat phobia, do a hair-raising interview on a rollercoaster, meet a man with a unique phobia of the cosmos and even jump out of a plane. Along the way she'll talk to ...

Musophobia, an irrational and overwhelming fear of mice and rats, is a recognized phobia. Fear of rats was common among participants in a 2019 study on living with rats in a disadvantaged urban ...