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Lyssamania 

The irrational fear that somebody is upset with you; that although you did nothing wrong, your mind feeds into your insecurities - leaving you with more and more reasons to not accept that maybe people love you for the way you are
I'm experiencing lyssamania, and I don't know how to get out of it.
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Lyssamania 

Lyssamania
/lis-uh-mey-nee-uh/

The irrational fear that someone is upset with you; that although you did nothing wrong, your mind feeds into your insecurities - leaving you with more and more reasons to not accept that maybe people love you for who you are and nothing else.
Sometimes I feel as if my therapist is right about my fear, she calls it Lyssamania

lyssamania 

The irrational fear that someone is upset with you although you did nothing wrong, your mind feeds into your insecurities - leaving you with more and more reason to not accept that maybe people love you for who you are and nothing else.
I feel like I have lyssamania

Lyssamania 

the irrational fear that someone is upset with you; that although you did nothing wrong, your mind feeds into your insecurities - leaving you with more and more reasons to not accept that maybe people love you for who you are and nothing else.
"Maybe I have lyssamania,,"

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How to say "you're an idiot/clown" using only emojis.
Person 1: Insert completely incorrect and/or idiotic statement here
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Word of the Day on June 1, 2026
Fogey/fogy /fougi/ sl. (early 18C+, orig. Scot) old-fashioned, stuck-in-the mud.
Person with old fashioned ideas which he is unwilling to change: Come to the disco and stop being such an old fogey!
You think me an old fogeyand an old tory, his thoughtful voice said. I saw three generations since O’Connel’s time. I remember the famine. Do you know that the orange lodges agitated for repeal of the union twenty years before O’Connel did or before the prelates of your communion denounced him as a demagogue? You fenians forget some things. (James Joyce, Ulysses. Penguin Books,1992. p. 38)
fogey by Petyush September 14, 2005
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