The Swedish minister for gender equality has admitted she needs help to tackle her phobia of bananas as she requires aids to sweep rooms to remove the fruit before she can enter. Paulina Brandberg ...

A Swedish minister's phobia of bananas has led officials to insist rooms are free of the fruit ahead of any meeting or visit, according to reports. The instructions from Gender Equality Minister ...

According to newspaper Expressen, the country’s gender equality minister, Paulina Brandberg, insisted that staff clear rooms of any bananas before she enters to help with her phobia. A leaked ...

A Swedish minister's phobia of bananas has led officials to insist rooms are free of the fruit ahead of any meeting or visit, according to reports. The instructions from Gender Equality Minister ...

Phobias are often dismissed as quirky or humorous, but for those who experience them, they are anything but trivial. A phobia can be defined as an intense, irrational fear of an object, situation ...

EUGENE, Ore.-- Staff with the White Bird Clinic’s Front Rooms program and homeless advocates are waiting to find out if they will be able to continue the program. Over the years the program has become ...

So, phobias are irrational fears. While most people would be frightened if they saw a shark while they were swimming, or when confronted in a room by a bear, these are rational terrors and do not ...