But the medical world hasn’t yet embraced the phobia as real ... The other was a close-up of a lotus-flower seedpod — a flat-faced pod pocked with small holes. Most of the students were ...

Trypophobia is the creepy phobia you've probably never heard of. It's been in the spotlight this month after people claimed to be distressed by a TV show's adverts for an apparently innocuous ...

Editor’s Note: There are no triggering images embedded in this story. There is a slideshow at the bottom with a warning slate as the first image. However, to explain to those without trypophobia ...

The term is Greek for "boring holes"—trypo—and "fear"—phobia—and amounts to a fear ... (When I shared an image of a lotus flower on my Twitter account, responses ranged from people who ...

If you’re really brave, you can try googling “lotus flower seed head” and seeing ... the Ancient Greek prefix trypa, meaning "holes," with phobia, meaning "fear." As Louise wrote on ...

However, more research is needed to know exactly how this phobia affects different genders or groups of people. The pattern of tightly packed holes in a lotus root could trigger your trypophobia ...

She mentioned a fear of holes - things like honeycomb and a particular flower. "It was more of a general feeling of disgust - it doesn't look very nice does it? "For a lot of people with phobias ...

Sounds more creepy than weird, right? health People who suffer from this phobia have a fear of small holes, and usually associate these with danger. You know, say, a honeycomb, a sponge ...

Apple unveiled its new iPhone models on Tuesday – but while some tech fans applauded the new phones’ design and specifications and others weighed in on their pricing, another feature has ...