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  2. Fear - Wikipedia

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    Fear is an unpleasant emotion that arises in response to perceived dangers or threats. Fear causes physiological and psychological changes. It may produce behavioral reactions such as mounting an aggressive response or fleeing the threat, commonly known as the fight-or-flight response. Extreme cases of fear can trigger an immobilized freeze ...

  3. Philophobia (fear) - Wikipedia

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    The risk is usually when a person has confronted any emotional turmoil relating to love but also can be a chronic phobia. [citation needed] This affects the quality of life and pushes a person away from commitment. A negative aspect of this fear of being in love or falling in love is that it keeps a person in solitude. It can also evolve out of ...

  4. Fear of intimacy - Wikipedia

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    Fear of intimacy is generally a social phobia and anxiety disorder resulting in difficulty forming close relationships with another person. The term can also refer to a scale on a psychometric test, or a type of adult in attachment theory psychology. The fear of intimacy is the fear of being emotionally and/or physically close to another ...

  5. List of phobias - Wikipedia

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    fear of being laughed at Gephyrophobia: fear of bridges: Genophobia, coitophobia: fear of sexual intercourse: Genuphobia: fear of knees or the act of kneeling Gerascophobia: fear of growing old or aging: Gerontophobia: fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly Globophobia: fear of balloons: Glossophobia: fear of speaking in public ...

  6. Limerence - Wikipedia

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    Limerence is a state of mind resulting from romantic feelings for another person. It typically involves intrusive and melancholic thoughts, or tragic concerns for the object of one's affection, along with a desire for the reciprocation of one's feelings and to form a relationship with the object of love.

  7. Emotion - Wikipedia

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    The expression of anger is in many cultures discouraged in girls and women to a greater extent than in boys and men (the notion being that an angry man has a valid complaint that needs to be rectified, while an angry women is hysterical or oversensitive, and her anger is somehow invalid), while the expression of sadness or fear is discouraged ...

  8. Love - Wikipedia

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    Being perfectly in love with God or Krishna makes one perfectly free from material contamination, and this is the ultimate way of salvation or liberation. In this tradition, salvation or liberation is considered inferior to love, and just an incidental by-product. Being absorbed in Love for God is considered to be the perfection of life. [66]

  9. Jealousy - Wikipedia

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    Jealousy generally refers to the thoughts or feelings of insecurity, fear, and concern over a relative lack of possessions or safety.. Jealousy can consist of one or more emotions such as anger, resentment, inadequacy, helplessness or disgust.