Autophobia
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Autophobia (from the Greek: ἀυτο, auto, "self" and φόβος, phóbos, "fear"), is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated.[1]
Sufferers need not be physically alone, but believe that they are being ignored, unloved, threatened by intruders, and so on.[2]
Autophobia is also used in its literal context to mean an irrational fear of oneself. It is sometimes associated with self-hatred.
[edit] References
- ^ Gould, Dr. George Milbry (1910). The Practitioner's Medical Dictionary (2nd ed.). Philadelphia: P. Blackiston's Son & Co. p. 100.
- ^ "MedicineNet". http://www.medterms.com/script/main/art.asp?articlekey=12196. Retrieved 19 January 2012.
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