Worrying about personal hygiene has nothing wrong, at least nothing pathological, it is even necessary. However the problem comes when it becomes obsessive, like the halitofobia. And many people, in most cases for fear of social rejection, the person who suffers constantly need to make sure that does not suffer from bad breath.
This disorder is sufficient to impair the sufferer to become irrational and inevitable: check the smell of his breath constantly, brushing your teeth too often, cleaning is done monthly gums, avoid getting too close to other people, so even prevent you from have normal relationships and constantly feel the need to observe reactions in people that talk to find any indication of his bad breath. In fact, according to one study, approximately 25% of people who say not suffer from halitosis suffer.
the halitofobia appears quite often associated with obsessive-compulsive pictures. If so, fear tends to generalize to more body odors: sweaty armpits odor is menstruating, odor is going to the bathroom or the smell of feet, for example, believing further aggravated in time.
The ideal is to consult a trusted person or on our supposed dentist bad breath out of questions before and if you still obsessed cannot be avoided, requests aid. If you suffer from halitosis, face it improve your quality of life. Do not forget that people who care about you will not reject you for it.
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Worrying about personal hygiene has nothing wrong, at least nothing pathological, it is even necessary. However the problem comes when it becomes obsessive, like the halitofobia. And many people, in most cases for fear of social rejection, the person who suffers constantly need to make sure that does not suffer from bad breath.