Citations:dystychiphobia

English citations of dystychiphobia

• 2004, Merilyn Simonds, The Holding, W. W. Norton & Company, page 43:

  It was a simple, fleeting fear, easily dismissed. The fears that clung to her were his. When he finally told her about them, reciting their names — cleithrophobia, hypsiphobia, dystychiphobia — she thought of insects, multiplying, swarming. He had fears she could hardly imagine: bright lights, long flights of stairs, large panes of glass, the shrieking of a streetcar. That was the sound that had sent him crouching into a doorway the day they met.

• 2007 July 28, Seth Hammond, alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):

  > Hoplophobia is treatable. The NRA sponsors the classes....So is your Acousticophobia and Dystychiphobia. The APA has treatments .

• 2011, Elisabete Santos, Helena Palma, Gonçalo Nápoles, Raquel Romero, Rita Gabriel, Vítor Grilo, Cláudia Pascoal, “Earn your wings program”, in Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, volume 1:

  As stated by Van Gerwen, Nousi, and Spinhoven (2008), flight anxiety can be considered as the expression of other phobias or even a combination of phobias (claustrophobia, acrophobia, agoraphobia, dystychiphobia, bathophobia) contributing to its complexity and eventually leading to extend the treatment …

• 2019 March, Kuldeep Makawana, Call Me Psycho, Notion Press, page 50:

  Karan and Raj were on the bike in their way back to the dorm. Karan was riding between sixty to seventy kilometers per hour. Raj had a case of dystychiphobia. He actually calculated the possibility of suffering a vehicular accident. He gave out pretty good odds of dying of a motorcycle crash. Raj was sitting on the back seat, scared stiff.

• 2022, Midnight Kale, Manuscripts on a Dusky Evening, volume 1, [self-published], page 407:

  Constantly terrified to reach out to you
  Gaining apathy in its finest structure
  Fueled by the movements of dismay
  Ending in the realm of dystychiphobia
  Knowing the love I want for you
  Will eventually harm you most definitely

• 2023, Haadi Dar, compiled by K. Vineela Sushmitha, The Struggle: Of a Confrontation, Free Minds Club, page 22:

  Perhaps, your dystychiphobia was absent at that time. I was lost in avenoir of us, dancing balterly.