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Tokophobia can be caused by various different factors including a fear of pain, past experience of a difficult childbirth, depression and even sexual trauma.
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The Malaysian leader may also be echoing a cry of fear and pain from all Asia, whose world-beating growth looks set to slow in the face of increasing financial woes and global competition -- both triggered in large part by liberalization.
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Strange would be testing the limits of mental control and the loss of fear, pain, and self-awareness in humans.
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Part of it is that some doctors are hesitant to prescribe some of the most powerful pain medication, out of fear of patient addiction and potential legal trouble.
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But dismissing this remedy out of hand ignores the very real pain, fear and anger felt by recent college students as they stare down the barrel of huge student loan payments in the worst job market since the Great Depression.
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"I remember being down on the ground and getting to my place of true, true fear, that pain that is so deep and animalistic in a way, " Ms. Page says.
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Part of me is also jealous that they don't know the fear and the anger and pain that we all feel as a result of that day.
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But we fear the ways in which our deep negativities and the pain of our past might in fact influence our political future.
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Once, fear of opioid addiction within the medical community meant that people suffering from the excruciating pain of metastatic cancer went untreated.
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Sarah Edwards explained to Fox News that eco-anxiety (manifested in feelings of fear, grief, anger, confusion and depression) caused her shoulder pain, fibromyalgia and fatigue.
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Better still, it conjures with real feelings -- fear, vulnerability, pain, a search for true love -- in the process of exploring the mad complexities of the modern dating game.
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