Thalassophobia

Sea phobia, a term coined by Carl Justing Schmidt in 1938, is a disorder characterized by an irrational fear and apprehension of various aquatic environments, up to and including moderate immersion in water or being on the shore. A distinctive feature of thalassophobe is the obsessive desire to escape from bodies of water as soon as possible, despite their more distant alternatives, even in the presence of obvious threats to life. Some researchers believe that thalassophobe is capable of deliberately aggravating his condition, but there is no clear evidence of this. One of the signs of thalassophobes is the fear of opening their eyes when immersed in water, or opening their eyes during an attack of morphophobia, which received the same name thallomnophobia. An intense fear of the sea may be part of a diagnosable condition defined as isolated obsessive fear of water - aquaphobia.

In psychology, morphophobia has the status of a phobic neurosis and is considered as a symptom of various types of disorders. Factors predisposing to