7 Common Phobia Causing Items Some People Have To Carry To Avoid Anxiety

6Small change

Are you one of those people who have some sort of fear of offering a large bill to a bus conductor or at the subway ticket counter? You just can’t bear to not have change on you and if you could, you would tender the exact amount for a ticket at all times. In fact, before you are always ready with your exact fare in hand even before you board a bus. 

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Many people who fear being without change collect change at home

You make sure you have a box of change ready at home where you can dip into when you have to travel on the bus. Not having change can even cause anxiety for some. 

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7A cell phone

In this day and age, a cell phone has become an extension of ourselves where many just can’t do without one. While psychologists have termed selfitis as a new age obsession for taking selfies, nomophobia is also a modern phobia or the fear of not being without a cellphone. 

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Research by psychologists says nomophobia is increasing

The condition abbreviated from the phrase No-mobile-phone-phobia has been researched to prove that some people even suffer anxiety when not having access to a cell phone. The fear is more prevalent in students and is a growing problem say, psychologists.

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