The fear of hell. This phobia actually has four names. Hadephobia, Stygiophobia, and Stigiophobia or more commonly and simply, The Fear of Hell. This fear of Hell could be pretty great for some people. More so than others. It can separate you from your loved ones, friends, family work, school, and finally, life. It could haunt you so much that you wouldn't even be able to do anything except stay in your house or even just your bedroom.
The symptoms of the fear are simple as probably any other phobia. Panic attacks, shortness of breath, irregular heartbeats, sweating a lot, probably feinting as well and so on. Of course these are all different for people with this fear. There are drugs that can help suppress this fear or more the symptoms for only a short time but, it doesn't kill. The drugs don't stop it for ever. They kill your body more than anything else.
There are a lot of things can provoke the fear. People that are talking about it, watching a movie, listing to music related to it, seeing people that worship that sort of thing walking down the street. But I think the one time of the year that scares the hell out them the most would have to be Halloween. All of those kids running around screaming and playing and all of the creepy satanic stuff that is hanging up in store for the whole month. That would be enough to make me stay indoors all month long and then I would probably hold myself tight with a weapon or something on Halloween night.
Some of the things that can cause someone to gain this crappy phobia is for starters, something happing in the past that caused you trauma and implanted that fear there or...
Stigiophobia (Fear of Hell)
This essay is remarkable: It rambles. It misuses English. It makes statements that are wrong to the point of nonsense. It is poorly reasoned.
The writer contends that Stigiophobia may have been around for a thousand years. Given that the concept of hell and the fear of damnation to hell is well articulated in the Bible, in such books as Revelation, which have been around considerably longer than 1,000 years, how did this writer manage to date Stigiophobia from that date. He gives no suggestion as to what gave rise to this fear.
The writer mentions that there are at least three clinical names for this fear, but offers no differentiation between them.
The writer's confession of a failure of research is stunning: "As far back as I could find for the history is in 1957 in Maryland. Someone was afraid of hell. It wouldn't let me view the page so I just sort of guessed it out. It would've been easier if they could spell right. But I would have to think that this fear would be around for at least 1000 years, probably more. The same as with the fear of heaven. If you're going to have one you have to have the other. That's the only way it could work out. So I figure it has been around since the birth of Christ. They more than likely didn't have a name for it yet until a few hundred years later when we were just first starting to learn cool stuff."
Oh, well, Shakespeare, Dante, The Aeneid, Greece -- none of that was cool, I guess. As far as the fear of hell making the fear of heaven mandatory, the writer gives up no reason why.
In short, this essay should embarrass the writer.
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