The acknowledgment of phobias goes way back. In 400 BC, who described a person with certain anxieties as someone who "loves darkness as life" and "thinks every man observes him"?

The full quote from Hippocrates was “(this man) … through bashfulness, suspicion, and timorousness, will not be seen abroad; loves darkness as life and cannot endure the light or to sit in lightsome places."

Asked by Tom Cohen · Last updated 5 years ago · 1.6K views