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Monday, 09 June 2008 |
By Jerry L. Fobik
 From the time we are children, getting filthy is something that is almost a pass time. Our parents try to keep us and our clothes from getting dirty in vain, because after washing our hands numerous times, we gather ourselves and go right away back to our mud piles. As we grow older, the passion of playing with dirt is often disappear and we live our lives with a renewed common sense of cleanliness. For some, however, a germ phobia prevents average life from happening. This germ phobia is also referred to as mysophobia and can be directly linked with a fear of dirt.
A germ phobia is not merely being fearful of germs it's a lot more. Mysophobia is the fear of filth that may contain germs or infect the person in some way with a contamination. The person with a germ phobia can often be noticed washing their hands again and again, in order to remove any germs they have come into contact with.
When the germ phobia was first recognized, it was wrongly linked with the Obsessive Compulsive |
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