General Awareness

Mental Health and Disorders

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Mental health and disorders cover psychological conditions, behavioral signs, and emotional challenges. These topics appear in general awareness, psychology, and social work exams. Use this guide to practice identifying various mental health conditions.

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Mental Health and Disorders Questions

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Belonephobia is:

  1. Fear of plants

  2. Fear of pins and needles

  3. Fear of walking or falling

  4. Fear of slime
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Belonephobia is the fear of pins, needles, and sharp objects. The other options refer to different phobias, such as botanophobia (fear of plants), basophobia (fear of falling), or blennophobia (fear of slime).

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Bibliophobia is:

  1. Fear of body smells

  2. Fear of depth

  3. Fear of books

  4. Fear of slime
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Bibliophobia is the fear of books. The other options refer to different phobias, such as bromidrosiphobia (fear of body smells), bathophobia (fear of depth), or blennophobia (fear of slime).

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Bogyphobia is:

  1. Fear of microbes

  2. Fear of missles or bullets

  3. Fear of pins and needles

  4. Fear of bogies or the bogeyman
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Bogyphobia is the fear of bogies, demons, or the bogeyman. The other options refer to different phobias, such as microbiophobia (fear of microbes), belonephobia (fear of pins/needles), or ballistophobia (fear of missiles/bullets).

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Caligynephobia is:

  1. Fear of thunder and lightning

  2. Fear of newness, novelty

  3. Fear of toads

  4. Fear of beautiful women
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Caligynephobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of beautiful women. The term comes from Greek roots: 'caly' meaning beautiful and 'gyné' meaning women. Option A refers to Astraphobia/Brontophobia, B to Neophobia, and C to Bufonophobia.

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Cathisophobia is:

  1. Fear of cancer

  2. Fear of the heart

  3. Fear of sitting

  4. Fear of meat
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cathisophobia is the fear of sitting down. The other options refer to different phobias, such as carcinophobia (fear of cancer), cardiophobia (fear of the heart), or carnophobia (fear of meat).

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Catoptrophobia is:

  1. Fear of being ridiculed

  2. Fear of mirrors

  3. Fear of meat

  4. Fear of sitting
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Catoptrophobia is the fear of mirrors. The other options refer to different phobias, such as catagelophobia (fear of being ridiculed), carnophobia (fear of meat), or cathisophobia (fear of sitting).

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Chaetophobia is:

  1. Fear of hair

  2. Fear of new things or ideas

  3. Fear of cold

  4. Fear of gaiety
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Chaetophobia is the fear of hair. The other options refer to different phobias, such as neophobia (fear of new things), cryophobia (fear of cold), or cheraphobia (fear of gaiety).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Chiraptophobia is:

  1. Fear of being touched

  2. Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals

  3. Fear of snow

  4. Fear of gaiety
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Chiraptophobia is the abnormal fear of being touched by others. It comes from Greek 'chirapt' meaning 'I touch' and 'phobia' meaning fear. Option B is Chemophobia, C is Chionophobia (fear of snow), and D is Cherophobia (fear of gaiety/happiness).

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Chorophobia is:

  1. Fear of being touched

  2. Fear of dancing

  3. Fear of gaiety

  4. Fear of money
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Chorophobia is the fear of dancing. The other options refer to different phobias, such as haphophobia (fear of being touched), cheraphobia (fear of gaiety), or chrometophobia (fear of money).

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Chrometophobia is:

  1. Fear of money

  2. Fear of being touched

  3. Fear of dancing

  4. Fear of hair
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
A Correct answer
Explanation

Chrometophobia is the fear of money. The other options refer to different phobias, such as haphophobia (fear of being touched), chorophobia (fear of dancing), or chaetophobia (fear of hair).

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Chronophobia is:

  1. Fear of gaiety

  2. Fear of time

  3. Fear of anger

  4. Fear of snow
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
B Correct answer
Explanation

Chronophobia is the fear of time or the passing of time. The other options refer to different phobias, such as cheraphobia (fear of gaiety), cholerophobia (fear of anger), or chionophobia (fear of snow).

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Cibophobia is:

  1. Fear of clocks

  2. Fear of dancing

  3. Fear of food

  4. Fear of stealing
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Cibophobia is the fear of food. The other options refer to different phobias, such as chronomentrophobia (fear of clocks), chorophobia (fear of dancing), or kleptophobia (fear of stealing).

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Clinophobia is:

  1. Fear of being enclosed

  2. Fear of being locked in an enclosed place

  3. Fear of stealing

  4. Fear of going to bed
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Clinophobia is the abnormal fear of going to bed or falling asleep. The term derives from Greek 'clin' meaning bed. Options A and B both refer to Claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces), while C refers to Kleptophobia (fear of stealing).

Multiple choice softskills creativity

Coulrophobia is:

  1. Fear of feces

  2. Fear of constipation

  3. Fear of comets

  4. Fear of clowns
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
D Correct answer
Explanation

Coulrophobia is the specific fear of clowns. The term combines 'coulro' (from Greek 'kolon' meaning stilts or limbs, referring to clown's stilts) with 'phobia'. Options A and C are incorrect - A refers to Coprophobia, C has no standard phobia name matching it.

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Crystallophobia is:

  1. Fear of computers or working on a computer

  2. Fear of comets

  3. Fear of crystals or glass

  4. Fear of constipation
Reveal answer Fill a bubble to check yourself
C Correct answer
Explanation

Crystallophobia is the fear of crystals or glass. The other options refer to different phobias, such as cyberphobia (fear of computers), cometophobia (fear of comets), or coprastasophobia (fear of constipation).