The urban dictionary describes trypophobia as ‘…an intense, irrational fear of (organic) holes.’ Basically, trypophobia is the fear of ‘too many holes’ and things that have a lot of tiny holes on them. However, these holes are not the huge one but rather those tiny one within asymmetrical clusters. Most of those trypophobic people begin to feel discomfort, weird and itchy feeling on the entire body, once they see tiny holes. At present, trypophobia is used to describe people who have great fears of holes in the skin and bot flies. In addition, the chief reasons that give distress to trypophobic people are those that naturally occur like the skin pore. Hence, with this, tiny hole on the skin pore allows trypophobic people to become stress, as they believe that it will grow and become a gigantic hole in the skin. There some cases that people get bite by insects become paranoid as some them think that it could let the skin have hole. The species that most trypophobic people are afraid of are the bot flies, as they believe that it use humans in order to host its larvae resulting to have skin hole. In connection with this, trypophobes or people with great fear of holes in the skin or immense fear of holes are suggested to avoid watching graphic regarding bot flies removal as it could worsen their so-called anxiety phobia.
Causes of trypophobia
Though the actual cause of this strange condition is not yet known, it is believed that this condition occurs right from early childhood and proceeds into the teenage years, slowly wearing away. The condition arises as a result of certain external and internal predispositions, or possibly some traumatic event in the earlier stage of life, just like many other phobias.