#aestophobia

I’m currently building a website for information on Prosopotikophobia (a term that my mom and I coined that means “irrational fear of m*lting faces,” which is what I have), so if you suffer from this phobia and are comfortable talking about it, feel free to either reblog this, make a post, or PM me about your experiences so that I can have better information on it than just my own experience to put on the site, and so I can know how to potentially avoid triggering you and other people with it.

So far, the information I have is that it may either develop from seeing it happen to fictional characters, or witnessing/experiencing it in real life if the victim is exposed to the right chemicals. Sufferers of this phobia may have a higher risk of developing it if they have an underlying intense fear of losing control (Agoraphobia), a fear of hot weather or heat (Aestophobia) and/or a fear of d**th (Thanatophobia). Triggers include mentions of the “M” word, references to any substance that caused a victim (fictional or real) to have this happen to them that was witnessed by the sufferer, and of course being exposed to images or videos of it happening (especially if it was the video or image that caused the fear to develop).

That’s basically all I have so far, besides the portion where I write about my story - so again, feel free to leave other useful information in a reblog, post or message so I can add it to the site!