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FUN FACTS<br />
ABOUT<br />
<strong>PSYC</strong>HOLOGY<br />
• There are more than<br />
400 distinct phobias<br />
well recognized by<br />
psychologists.<br />
• The average high<br />
school kid today<br />
has the same level<br />
of anxiety as the<br />
average<br />
psychiatric patient<br />
in the early 1950's.<br />
• Your favorite song is<br />
probably your favorite<br />
because you associate it<br />
with an emotional event<br />
in your life.<br />
• Researchers are<br />
debating on adding<br />
Internet addiction to the<br />
list of mental disorders 1<br />
in 5 people in France has<br />
experienced depression<br />
making it the most<br />
depressed country in the<br />
world.<br />
• Phobias may be<br />
memories passed<br />
down through<br />
generations in DNA,<br />
according to a new<br />
research.<br />
• Anorexia has the<br />
highest mortality rate<br />
of any psychological<br />
disorder: between 5%<br />
and 20%eventually die<br />
from it.<br />
• No one born blind has<br />
ever developed<br />
schizophrenia.<br />
• Antidepressant drugs,<br />
already known to cause<br />
sexual side effects, may<br />
also suppress the basic<br />
human emotions of love<br />
and romance.<br />
• Boanthropy is a<br />
psychological<br />
disorder where<br />
people think<br />
they're cows.<br />
• Phobophobia is<br />
the fear of<br />
having a phobia.
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