Understanding Panophobia: The Fear of Everything The Fear of Everything, Even of Him She watches him like a stray dog watches a butcher’s window. Suspicious. Hungry. Desperate. He tells her he loves her, but the words are just air, just static on a dead radio station. She doesn’t believe him. She can’t. Love is just … Read more
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Athazagoraphobia: The Fear of Being Forgotten The Fear That Drives the World A Muslim man with six wives and twenty-eight children sits at the head of his long dining table, watching the laughter and the movement, the small hands reaching for food, the voices that echo his own blood. He smiles. They will remember him, … Read more
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Automatonophobia: The Uncanny Dread of the Almost-Human 1. A Bukowski-Style Tale of Automatonophobia It was late, the kind of late where the streetlights flicker like they’re tired of living, and I was stumbling out of a dive bar on 3rd Street, half a bottle of cheap whiskey sloshing in my gut. The air was thick, … Read more
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The Fear of Change: Metathesiophobia in Life and Literature I. A Story of Fearful Inertia What the heck is Metathesiophobia? It buzzes in your mind like a billion bees in a hive. She wakes up next to him again. The same smell of cigarette ashes and regret. The same bruises, the same excuses. She knows … Read more
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What nobody tells you about Severance Season 2 What nobody tells you about Severance Season 2 is that, beneath its gripping sci-fi mystery, the show is a disturbingly realistic psychological horror about the fragmentation of identity in modern society. While fans discuss the twists and turns, few emphasize how the series subtly mirrors real-world psychological … Read more
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The Psychological Labyrinth of Severance Season 2: A Study of Identity, Memory, and Control As Severance returns for its much-anticipated second season (Severance Season 2), the psychological undercurrents of this dystopian workplace thriller continue to captivate audiences. The series delves into the disturbing consequences of memory bifurcation, where employees of Lumon Industries undergo a “severance” … Read more
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The Painkiller Society: A Meditation on Drugs, Gods, and Bobby Portis NBA suspension You take a wrong pill. You mix up the names. A simple mistake. Tramadol instead of Toradol. A small slip, a fleeting moment of carelessness, and Bobby Portis finds himself suspended from the NBA for a substance that wasn’t supposed to be … Read more
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The Art of Settling for Less – iPhone 16e – Learned Helplessness Sometimes little is better than nothing. That’s what they tell themselves. That’s what they tell you. The old man working two shifts at a job he hates, the woman trapped in a loveless marriage, the kid who wanted to be an astronaut but … Read more
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The Columbine Massacre: A Psychological Dissection of Violence, Infamy, and Healing Defining Columbine: A Day of Infamy On April 20, 1999, two adolescents, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold, executed a meticulously premeditated assault on Columbine High School in Littleton, Colorado. Armed with firearms and homemade explosives, they embarked on a rampage that claimed 13 lives … Read more
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Nomophobia: The Fear That Owns Us, The Fear of Being Without A Mobile Device I’m glued to my phone again, scrolling through missed calls, messages, or the latest TikTok updates. I’m barely paying attention to what my dad is saying—just waiting for the next chance to check my screen. Even in my sleep, I wake … Read more
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