What is Automysophobia?
Automysophobia is a morbid fear of being dirty, or a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of being dirty. which is fine as it is one thing that I ain't got at least! But apparently it causes lots of people a great deal of stress.
Symptoms include panic attacks, shortness of breath, rapid breathing, sweating, irregular heartbeat, nausea, and general feelings of dread. Strangely enough there is no page for it on Wikipedia, so an opportunity there for someone to get in there first !
From what I can see treatment seems to be more along the lines of therapy rather than drugs, although I'm not a doctor so don't quote me on that.
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