dacnomania: An insane compulsion to kill.
daemonophobia, demonophobia: An intensive fear of demons (spirits, goblins, etc.).
dancing: See choreomania, choreophobia, orchestromania.
darkness, night: See achluophobia, lygomania, lygophobia, scotophobia.
dawn: See eosophobia.
day: See phengophobia.
dead bodies: See necromania, necrophobia.
death: See necromania, necrophobia, thanatomania, thanatophobia.
decalcomania: A craze for transferring pictures from a specially prepared paper to surfaces of glass, porcelain, etc.
Now well-known simply as decal. A craze for using decals which was much in vogue about 1862-64.
decay: See seplophobia, septophobia.
decidophobia: A fear of making decisions which may be related to feelings of self-confidence or the lack of self-esteem.
decomania: A tendency, or mania, for excessive decorating that goes on for Christmas.
deep-vein thrombophobia [also, economy-class syndromophobia]: A fear by some air travelers that they may develop a potentially fatal blood clot that forms in a major blood vessel, usually in a leg. The secondary term, "economy-class syndrome", is so named because of the cramped space in the main cabins of most airlines.
Deep-vein thromboses can be fatal when part of the clot breaks off in the leg and travels to and blocks a blood vessel in the lungs. Although the deep-vein thrombophobia is more often associated with long flights, researchers say it can develop during any mode of travel that causes long periods of immobility.
The elderly and tall people, as well as people with previous blood-clotting problems, are considered at greater risk than others for developing deep-vein thrombosis. There is also a related term now known as e-thrombosis which refers to those who sit in front of a computer too long and thus develop the same dangerous condition.
Twenty-seven airlines are spared from suits-
Passenger thrombosis is ruled no "accident"
British Airways, Delta Air Lines and twenty-five other airlines were declared free from liability for deep-vein thrombosis aboard aircraft because the condition is not an accident, the High Court in London ruled Friday, December 20, 2002.
The London decision ran counter to a ruling earlier in a similar case in Australia where the Victoria State Supreme Court rejected claims by Qantas Airways and BA that the condition is not an accident.
The London judge's reasoning was that an "accident" is an unexpected and unusual event "external to the passenger". The out-come prevents victims of the condition and their families from suing the airlines for damages under the Warsaw Convention on airline liability. This judgment applies to cases in England and Wales.
Airlines and blood-clot victims around the world will be watching eagerly for any rulings in the United States, where courts too often have a reputation for handing out the richest damages in the world.
The International Herald Tribune,
December 21, 2002.
defecalgesiophobia: An abnormal fear of having painful defecation (bowel movements).
deformities, bodily defects: See dysmorphomania, dysmorphophobia
deipnophobia: An abnormal fear of dining, dinner conversation, and of carrying on a conversation while eating.
Individuals who have this fear usually eat their meals in silence and request silence from their companions at the table. Such individuals may suffer from any of a number of related fears; such as, choking, talking with their mouths full, looking ridiculous while they are opening their mouths to talk, saying something ridiculous, or being criticized.
delirium: See pototromania.
dementophobia: A fear of being insane.
demomania: A compulsion to be in crowded places.
demonomania: A morbid insanity in which one believes he is being possessed by demons.
demonophobia, daemonophobia: An excessive fear of evil spirits; including, demons, devils, ghosts, and spirits.
Those who fear demons have anxieties about powerful forces inside themselves and they may believe that these forces directly cause them to commit bizarre acts or even murder.
demons, devils: See cacodemonomania, daemonophobia, demonomania, demonophobia, phasmophobia, Satanophobia
demophobia: A fear or intense dislike of crowds of people.
Fear of crowds may also be related to a fear of being confined, because in a crowd there may be no quick way for the anxious individual to get to a place he or she regards as safe.
dendromania: An obsession to be among trees or forests.
dendrophobia: An excessive fear of trees. This fear may be related to a phobia of forests or of landscapes.
dentophobia: An abnormal fear of being around a dentist or going for dental treatment.
Dental anxiety varies from a mild fear of dental treatment to an extreme anxiety that leads an individual to avoid contact with a dentist entirely.
depths: See bathophobia
dermatophobia, dermatosiophobia: An excessive fear of skin disease, lesions, or cracks of the skin.
Among the many specific skin disorders individuals may fear include acne, boils, carbuncles, warts, impetigo, cellulitis, eczema, psoriasis, hives, ichthyosis, keloids, lichen planus, abnormal skin pigmentation, vitiligo, pityriasis, chloasma, moles, and skin cancer.
the patient never dies and never gets well.
-Anonymous
