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Autophobia is the fear of being alone. It may also be called isolaphobia or monophobia. Some of the symptom include the following:

• sweating

• dry mouth

• shaking violently

• inability to think clearly

• cannot breathe properly

• experience anxiety attacks

• nausea and sickness

• heart beats fast

• fear that you may die at any point

• becoming mad or losing control

There may be many causes of autophobia

• Association with a bad experience

  As a child, parents locked you up in a room for long hours of penalization.

• Association with abandonment

  Association of being alone with being unloved or neglected

• Association with safety

  Belief that he or she will die or collapse when alone