autophobia
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Autophobia is the specific phobia or a morbid fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored. This condition is associated with the idea of being alone, often causing severe anxiety.
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- Monophobia, isolophobia, eremophobia
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- psychology
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Autophobia is the specific phobia or a morbid fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored. This condition is associated with the idea of being alone, often causing severe anxiety.
While autophobia is not recognized as its own individual phobic disorder in major mental health diagnostic publications, it is still a disorder that may be treated like any other anxiety-based disorder through the use of medications and therapies. This disorder may, however, be classified and diagnosed as code 6B03 "specific phobia" in the ICD-11 and a situational type specific phobia [300.29 (F40.248)] in the DSM-5.