Sentences with phrase «fear of human contact»

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A lot of people who prefer to go for online dating, especially singles over 40 would have done so because of their fear of actual human contact, and you don't want to impose an intimidating factor from the get - go.

In The Dynamics of Creation, Anthony Storr, the British psychiatrist, contends that an individual who «fears love almost as much as he fears hatred» may turn to creative activity not only out of an impulse to experience aesthetic pleasure, or the delight of exercising an active mind, but also to defend himself against anxiety stimulated by conflicting demands for detachment and human contact.

Feral cats are domestic cats who have lived their whole lives without human contact, and have the same fear and distrust of humans as any wild animal.

To change that, Baltimore has recognized TNR programs under which feral cat caregivers are legally recognized and allowed to maintain colonies of feral cats defined as «a cat that is unsocialized to humans and has a temperament of extreme fear of and resistance to contact with humans».

Her omission of infection rates — remarkably low in light of the frequent contact between humans and cats — suggests an interest more in fear - mongering than anything else.

«Feral cats», who are not socialized to humans, are essentially wild animals and often experience a great deal of fear and stress when forced to be in close contact with people.