Debra Messing

I'm a little commitment phobic, in that I've always been someone who likes to take things one year at a time because as we all know, a year can change everything in your life.

American Actress

Marilyn vos Savant

I suspect that some apparently homosexual people are really heterosexuals who deeply phobic about the opposite sex or have other emotional problems.

American Writer

John Bercow

The Conservatives must realise that being sceptical is different from being phobic in what is an interdependent world.

British Politician

Guy Fieri

People are very phobic about fish. And if they do cook fish, they fry it, which kills all the flavor.

American Businessman

Dane Cook

I grew up very self-loathing. I was a phobic. I had anxiety. I had panic attacks.

American Comedian

David Grann

I don't camp; I don't hike. I hate bugs, and I'm phobic of snakes.

American Journalist

Martin Scorsese

I'm very phobic about flying, but I'm also drawn to it.

American Director

Spalding Gray

I'm basically a fearful person. I'm a phobic person.

American Actor

Joanne Harris

I'm phobic about the idea of being constrained.

British Author

Judy Blume

American Author

Phobic often conveys negative and strong emotions towards something.

Negative Emotion

The fear or dislike is typically excessive and unreasonable.

Irrational Aspect

Someone phobic usually tries to avoid the feared subject.

Avoidance Behavior

Phobic in a medical sense indicates a diagnosable anxiety disorder.

Disorder Connection

Phobic reactions are often caused by specific triggers or situations.

Trigger Specific

Understanding 'phobic' can lead to exploring treatment options.

Treatment Implications

When used as a suffix, it often indicates very strong aversion.

Intense Dislike

Phobic terms can carry social stigma depending on their prefix.

Cultural Connotations

The suffix can refer to fears of very specific things or groups.

Specific Phobias

 or rain and they've got to get through water they most certainly will do that they're not going to just you know avoid it and try and go around a river they will go over and through the rocks and all kinds of things if they have to so they not completely phobic of water but they're a big problem for squirrels and birds and those kind of things like I said they spend a lot more time in the

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 they use it of course as a metaphorical shorthand for that deep, mysterious part of physics which we don't yet understand. "Non-theist" will do for all that, yet unlike "atheist," it doesn't have the same phobic, hysterical responses.