Is anatidaephobia a real kind of phobia or is it not so?

Have you ever heard of the phobia called anatidaephobia? If you haven’t heard, you need to know that this is a constant and irrational type of fear where a person feels that he is always being watched by a duck or a geese or a swan. This is indeed a very rare kind of phobia because it is never seen that a person constantly feels that a duck is watching him but there are few rare people among whom this occurs. If it gets serious, it may get disabling and might bar a person from maintaining his routine activities and it can even hamper the person’s personal life.

Experts suggest that it’s apparently not a real phobia but it is a sort of a state of mind which can be changed. The word anatidaephobia comes from the Greek word ‘anatidae’ which means geese, ducks, swans and we all know that the word ‘phobos’ means fear. Someone who had a traumatic experience during his childhood with some duck might face such a phobia till his adulthood.

Anatidaephobia – The common symptoms

The symptoms of anatidaephobia usually are different from one person to another and usually they can include symptoms like nausea …

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