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And here's your shmoop du jour brought to you by phobophobia it's like

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FDR said nothing to phobia but phobia itself here's your question.. Coons 1994 [FDR giving a speech]

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found that ninety percent of people suffering from this disease suffered

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extreme physical or sexual abuse and here are potential answers....

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Alright let's cut right to the

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chase here and safely assert that the fear of phobias is not closely linked to [Man shivering with fear]

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physical or sexual abuse though is closely linked two fun words to say out

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loud like nomophobia and ablutophobia and while there's no doubt that sexual

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and physical abuse could lead to depression and many other mental [Girl looking depressed]

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disorders down the line this wasn't the focus of Coons work as for paranoid

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schizophrenia this is yet to be determined while some scientists do [Scientist standing in a lab]

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believe the childhood abuse can be a significant cause of schizophrenia

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others aren't so sure believing instead that family history is the leading

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predictor of the disorder, so cross out C) and D) there..Dissociative fugue could

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definitely fit as this term describes a rare condition in which an individual [Man sucked into a wormhole]

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temporarily loses their sense of personal identity and travels far away

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from home often emerging confused as to who they are this flight has been linked [Man crashes out of wormhole and lands head first onto a mountain]

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to severe stress and traumatic events like war, accidents and sexual and

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physical abuse. However Coons work was actually on a dissociative identity [Body with 4 spinning heads]

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disorder or DID - Once known as multiple personality disorder it is most often

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found in people who've suffered extreme trauma and have developed the condition [Man walking and heads fall on top of each other]

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as a coping mechanism okay so that was pretty heavy how about a few more fun to

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say phobias, coprophobia, fear of feces, genuphobia fear of knees

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Porphyrophobia, fear of the color purple shmoop-a-phobia doesn't exist who could [Man fearful of a purple book]

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fear these lovable faces come on people..

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