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PONDERING THE PHOBIA - Phobias and Library: Complete. collection of phobias to peruse and ponder and if you need help, check the library for the associated content from my books and self care guides on managing fear and anxiety.
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AGATHOKAKOLOGICAL - composed of both good and evil

ALAMORT - half dead from exhaustion

ALBATROSS - a seemingly inescapable moral or emotional burden, from guilt or responsibility

ALEXITHYMIA - inability to express your feelings

ANHEDONIA - the loss of interest or enjoyment in activities that you once liked - not caring anymore

APANTHROPINIZATION - withdrawal from the world’s problems; the resignation of human concerns

ATRABILIOUS - gloomy, morose or melancholy

BRICKBAT - mean or caustic criticism

BRUMOUS - grey skies and winter days; filled with heavy fog or clouds

CALIGO - darkness, fog, vapor or mist. Gloom. Figuratively, inability to perceive mentally.

CAUSTIC - severely critical or sarcastic

CIMMERIAN - very dark or gloomy

CRAPEHANGER - someone who sees the gloomy side of things

DELETERIOUS - harmful or injurious

DOWIE - dull, melancholy or dismal

DRACONIAN - rigorous; unusually severe or cruel

DUDGEON - a feeling of offense, resentment or anger

EXCORIATE - to berate severely; flay verbally

FAUSTIAN - sacrificing spiritual values for power, knowledge or material gain

FERLY - something unusual and strange that causes wonder or terror

FULIGINOUS - sooty or smoky

GLOWER - to stare angrily

HORRIPILATION - a bristling on the skin from fear

IMPRECATE - to invoke evil on

INTERNECINE - mutually destructive

ISLOPHILIA - strong affection for being alone

LYPOPHRENIA - feelings or sadness or sorrow without a known cause

MAAT - defeat, checkmate

MARCID - withered, incredibly exhausted

MARG - death

MISTPOUFFER - a dark, mysterious sound heard over the ocean during foggy weather

MONOCHOPSIS - the subtle but persistent feeling of being out of place

NEBULOCHAOTIC - a state of hazy confusion

NYCTOPHILIA - love of darkness or night, finding relaxation or comfort in the darkness

OBDURATE - unmoved by persuasion, pity or tender feelings; stubborn

OBNUBILATE - to obscure

ONEIRATAXIA - inability to distinguish fantasy from reality

PARAPRAXIS - slip of the tongue, divulging unconscious desires

PARAPROSEXIA - constant distraction

PERFIDIOUS - deliberately faithless, treacherous or deceitful

PUGNACIOUS - inclined to quarrel or fight, belligerent

REBARBATIVE - causing annoyance, irritation or aversion; repellent

SCHLEMIEL - an awkward or unlucky person for who things never turn out right

SCHIAMACHY - an act of instance of fighting a shadow or an imaginary enemy

SITAMGAR - tormentors

SKULLDUGGERY - mean dishonesty or trickery

SOPHISTRY - a subtle, tricky superficially plausible but generally fallacious method of reasoning

STRAVAGE - to wander aimlessly

SUBFUSCOUS - dark, dusky and somber

SUTON - the approach of death or the end of something

SYBILLINE - mysterious or cryptic

TENEBRIFIC - producing darkness

TENEBROUS - dark, murky or obscure

TOHUBOHU - chaos, disorder and confusion

TORSCHLUSSPANIK - fear that time is running out to achieve life goals. Literally gate shutting panic.

TOSKA - a spiritual anguish, dull ache of the soul

TRADUCE - to lower or disgrace the reputation of

TURPITUDE - vile, shameful or depravity

UMBRA - shadow or darkness

WELTSCHMERZ - sorrow that one feels and accepts as their lot in life; sentimental pessimism

XENIZATION - the act of existing as a stranger

ZUGZWANG - feeling stress like you have to make a strategic move when you want to do nothing
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