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Mum-of-four has monthly severe panic attacks as a result of her phobia of baths overflowing

A 49-year-old grandma who was once a clinical hypnotherapist specialising in phobias has a fear of baths overflowing, causing her to have monthly severe panic attacks and feel as if she is “about to pass out”. Mother-of-four Darcey Croft, a ...

17 Nov 2022 at 08:21

Quirky

A woman from the Cotswolds has a fear of tractors and takes six-mile detours to avoid them when walking her dogs

A 55-year-old private investigator living in the Cotswolds has tractorphobia, and has been known to do six-mile detours to avoid them when walking her dogs. Ali Harris’s pulse races and her hands shake when she thinks she has seen a ...

22 Nov 2022 at 08:00

Health & Wellbeing

World Blood Donor Day: How to make giving blood a breeze – even if you have a needle-phobia

Giving blood is a selfless act that saves lives. But if you’ve got needle phobia, giving blood is much easier said than done. This World Blood Donor Day on June 14, blood donation services are appealing for hundreds more new donors ...

14 Jun 2022 at 07:30

Life

11 ways to take the fear out of jabs for children

Many parents dread taking their kids for routine jabs because so many of them are terrified of needles. After all, having an injection isn’t something most adults enjoy, let alone children. Studies suggest around two-thirds (63%) ...

24 Apr 2023 at 08:30

Health

Woman who lives with phobia of lines and holes ‘feels sick’ at sight of honeycomb or Doja Cat’s red crystal dress

A woman who is terrified of lines and holes “suffered in silence” for more than 30 years before speaking about her phobia, afraid people would think that she was a “freak”. Samantha Harradine has since discovered a whole ...

14 Aug 2023 at 07:00

Ireland

How Ireland’s answer to Derren Brown ditched his job to become a hypnotist

A hypnotist and self-proclaimed “Irish Derren Brown” who was once a journalist making £1,000 a week now earns £1,000 an hour helping his clients lose weight, give up smoking and overcome their fears. Jason O’Callaghan ...

02 Oct 2023 at 11:03

Quirky

How Ireland’s answer to Derren Brown ditched his journalist job to become a hypnotist earning £1,000 an hour

02 Oct 2023 at 07:00

Quirky

My pea phobia stunted my childhood: Mum of two has panic attack symptoms due to crippling fear of peas

A mum of two who has had a crippling fear of peas since being force-fed them at school has said her “terror” at the sight of them causes her to have panic attack-like symptoms and her phobia “stunted her ...

18 Apr 2023 at 07:00

Quirky

Psychic medium who has phobia of haircuts says spirits support her but people treat her fear as a ‘joke’

A psychic medium from Kent who has a phobia of haircuts – known as tonsurephobia – says it is “nothing to be laughed about” and wishes people would stop treating it as a “joke”. Tracy May, 51, only ...

09 Dec 2022 at 08:00

Quirky

Man too scared to fly overcomes ‘irrational fear’ with course and now catches plane to Spain every month to meet fiancee

The son of a travel agent who became so terrified of flying that planes turned him into a “crying, panicking mess” and meant he managed only one flight in two decades has now overcome his fear ...

18 Jan 2024 at 06:30

Health

Artist who hasn’t vomited in 25 years due to severe phobia thinks hypnotherapy could be ‘best chance’ of overcoming fear

An artist who has not vomited in more than two decades due to her severe phobia believes hypnotherapy could be her “best chance” as she fundraises for specialist treatment. Melody Grossman, ...

03 Jan 2025 at 06:30

Body Image

‘NHS dentists don’t take my phobia seriously’ says man so fearful of a check up he has let his teeth ‘crumble away’

A man with a dentist phobia so severe he allowed most of his teeth to “crumble away” has now sought treatment abroad as he feels the NHS do not take his fear seriously. Lajos Csendes, 31, ...

17 Mar 2025 at 00:01

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