Do sponges make you feel afraid, anxious or disgusted? How about honeycombs? Or strawberries? If so, you might have trypophobia − the fear of clusters of small holes. Though rare as far as phobias go, ...

When some people look at the above photo of a harmless lotus seed head, the skin on their necks crawl, their hearts flutter, their shoulders tighten, and they shiver, breaking out in goosebumps. What ...

Does the sight of soap bubbles, aerated chocolate or a lotus flower seed pod bring you out in a cold sweat and make you feel panicky? If so, you could be a sufferer of one of the most common phobias ...

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Does the sight of soap bubbles, aerated chocolate or a lotus flower seed pod bring you out in a cold sweat and make you feel panicky? If so, you could be a sufferer of one of the most common phobias ...

(CNN) --Apple unveiled its new iPhone models on Tuesday -- but while some tech fans applauded the new phones' design and specifications and others weighed in on their pricing, another feature has ...

If the photo of the seedhead of a lotus flower makes your skin crawl, you may well have a phobia about holes. Researchers have discovered that a substantial minority of Britons suffer from trypophobia ...

(CNN) — Apple unveiled its new iPhone models on Tuesday — but while some tech fans applauded the new phones’ design and specifications and others weighed in on their pricing, another feature has ...

When Amanda was 12, her mother took her to the doctor because she was scared by the sight of Swiss cheese. Seeded bread made her sweaty and anxious. And Amanda would ...

Trypophobia is a feeling of aversion or fear in response to visual images of arrays of small holes. A case published in the Journal of Clinical Psychopharmacology describes a patient who developed ...

Professor Arnold Wilkins (l) and Dr Geoff Cole have found trypophobia - the fear holes - is triggered by images in the brain which feature 'high contrast at mid range spatial frequencies' Trypophobia ...