Phobias - What are you afraid of?
The word "phobia" is a term that refers to a group of symptoms brought on by feared objects or situations.
A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear that causes a person to feel intense anxiety.
People develop phobias about many things like darkness, social situations, spiders, or blood. Agoraphobia, one of the most common phobias, involves the fear of open places. A person with agoraphobia feels anxious in places where it would be hard to escape, like being in a crowd, standing in line, being on a bridge or traveling in a car. In extreme cases, they are so immobilized by fear that they become a prisoner in their own home.
Phobias are the most common form of anxiety disorders, which affect people of all ages, at all income levels and in all geographic locations, according to a study by American the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH), between 5.1 and 21.5 percent of Americans suffer form Phobias. Broken down by age and gender, the NIMH study found phobias were the most common psychiatric illness among women in all age groups and the second most common illness among men older than 25.
In some people, the response to a phobia can be fairly mild. For example, a person who has a phobia about flying might simply avoid airplanes. In other people, the phobia causes, or arises from, full-blown panic attacks with symptoms such as shortness of breath, sweating, irregular heartbeats and the shakes. Just why a person develops a particular phobia is not always clear. There appear to be both biological and psychological reasons. Psychologists classify phobias with other anxiety-caused problems and theorize they are a response to separation or loss. Heredity appears to play a role, and so does brain chemistry.
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A | |
ablutophobia: | washing or bathing |
acarophobia: | itching |
acerophobia: | sourness |
achluophobia: | darkness |
acousticophobia: | noise |
acrophobia: | heights |
aeroacrophobia: | open high places |
aeronausiphobia: | vomiting secondary to airsickness |
aerophobia: | drafts, air |
aeruophobia: | flying |
agliophobia: | pain |
agoraphobia: | open spaces |
agraphobia: | sexual abuse |
agrizoophobia: | wild animals |
agyrophobia: | streets or crossing the street |
aichmophobia: | needles or pointed objects |
ailurophobia: | cats |
albuminurophobia: | kidney disease |
alektorophobia: | chickens |
algophobia: | pain |
alliumphobia: | garlic |
allodoxaphobia: | opinions |
altophobia: | heights |
amathophobia: | dust |
amaxophobia: | riding in a car, or vehicles |
ambulophobia: | walking |
amnesiphobia: | amnesia |
amychophobia: | scratches or being scratched |
anablephobia: | looking up |
ancraophobia: | wind |
androphobia: | men |
anemophobia: | air drafts or wind |
anginophobia: | angina, choking or narrowness |
Anglophobia: | England, English culture, etc |
angrophobia: | becoming angry |
ankylophobia: | immobility of a joint |
anthophobia: | flowers |
anthrophobia: | people |
anthropophobia: | people or society |
antlophobia: | floods |
anuptaphobia: | staying single |
apeirophobia: | infinity |
aphenphosmphobia: | being touched |
apiphobia: | bees |
apotemnophobia: | persons with amputations |
arachibutyrophobia: | peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth |
arachnophobia: | spiders |
arithmophobia: | numbers |
arrhenphobia: | men |
arsonphobia: | fire |
asthenophobia: | fainting or weakness |
astraphobia: | thunder and lightning |
astrophobia: | stars and celestial space |
asymmetriphobia: | asymmetrical things |
ataxiophobia: | ataxia (muscular incoordination) |
ataxophobia: | disorder or untidiness |
atelophobia: | imperfection |
atephobia: | ruin or ruins |
athazagoraphobia: | being forgotten or ignored |
atomosophobia: | atomic explosions |
atychiphobia: | failure |
aulophobia: | flutes |
aurophobia: | gold |
auroraphobia: | northern lights |
autodysomophobia: | one that has a vile odor |
automatonophobia: | ventiloquist dummies or wax statues |
automysophobia: | being dirty |
autophobia: | being alone or of oneself |
aviophobia: | flying |
B | |
bacillophobia: | microbes |
bacteriophobia: | bacteria |
bactrachophobia: | reptiles |
ballistophobia: | missles or bullets |
barophobia: | gravity |
basophobia: | inability to stand |
bathophobia: | depth |
batonophobia: | plants |
batophobia: | heights |
batrachophobia: | amphibians |
belonephobia: | pins and needles |
bibliophobia: | books |
blennophobia: | slime |
bogyphobia: | the bogeyman |
Bolshephobia: | Bolsheviks |
botanophobia: | plants |
bromidrosiphobia: | body smells |
brontophobia: | thunder and lightning |
bufonophobia: | toads |
C | |
cacophobia: | ugliness |
cainophobia: | newness, novelty |
caligynephobia: | beautiful women |
carcinophobia: | cancer |
cardiophobia: | the heart |
carnophobia: | meat |
catagelophobia: | being ridiculed |
catapedaphobia: | jumping from high and low places |
cathisophobia: | sitting |
catoptrophobia: | mirrors |
cenophobia: | new things or ideas |
ceraunophobia: | thunder |
chaetophobia: | hair |
cheimaphobia or cheimatophobia: | cold |
chemophobia: | chemicals |
cherophobia: | gaiety |
chionophobia: | snow |
chiraptophobia: | being touched |
cholerophobia: | anger |
chorophobia: | dancing |
chrometophobia: | money |
chromophobia: | colors |
chronomentrophobia: | clocks |
chronophobia: | time |
cibophobia: | food |
claustrophobia: | enclosed spaces |
cleisiophobia: | being locked in |
cleptophobia: | stealing |
climacophobia: | stairs |
clinophobia: | going to bed |
clithrophobia: | being enclosed |
cnidophobia: | stings |
coimetrophobia: | cemeteries |
cometophobia: | comets |
contreltophobia: | sexual abuse |
coprastasophobia: | constipation |
coprophobia: | feces |
coulrophobia: | clowns |
cremnophobia: | precipices |
cryophobia: | extreme cold, ice or frost |
crystallophobia: | crystals or glass |
cyberphobia: | computers or working on a computer |
cyclophobia: | bicycles |
cymophobia: | waves or wave like motions |
cynophobia: | dogs |
D | |
decidophobia: | making decisions |
defecaloesiophobia: | painful bowel movements |
deipnophobia: | dining |
dementophobia: | insanity |
demonophobia: | demons |
demophobia: | crowds (Agoraphobia) |
dendrophobia: | trees |
dentophobia: | dentists |
dermatophobia: | skin lesions |
dermatosiophobia: | skin disease |
dextrophobia: | objects at the right side of the body |
diabetophobia: | diabetes |
didaskaleinophobia: | going to school |
dikephobia: | justice |
dinophobia: | dizziness |
diplophobia: | double vision |
dipsophobia: | drinking |
dishabiliophobia: | undressing in front of someone |
domatophobia: | houses or being in a house |
doraphobia: | fur or skins of animals |
dromophobia: | crossing streets |
dutchphobia: | the dutch |
dysmorphophobia: | deformity |
dystychiphobia: | accidents |
E | |
ecclesiophobia: | church |
eicophobia: | home surroundings |
eisoptrophobia: | mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror |
electrophobia: | electricity |
eleutherophobia: | freedom |
elurophobia: | cats (Ailurophobia) |
emetophobia: | vomiting |
enetophobia: | pins |
enochlophobia: | crowds |
enosiophobia: | committing an unpardonable sin |
entomophobia: | insects |
eosophobia: | dawn or daylight |
epistaxiophobia: | nosebleeds |
epistemophobia: | knowledge |
equinophobia: | horses |
eremophobia: | being oneself |
ereuthrophobia: | blushing |
ergasiophobia: | surgical instruments |
ergophobia: | work |
erotophobia: | sexual love |
erythrophobia: | the color red |
euphobia: | hearing good news |
eurotophobia: | female genitalia |
F | |
febriphobia: | fever |
felinophobia: | cats |
Francophobia: | france, french culture |
frigophobia: | cold |
G | |
galeophobia: | cats |
gallophobia or galiophobia: | fear France, French culture |
gamophobia: | marriage |
gatophobia: | cats |
geliophobia: | laughter |
geniophobia: | chins |
genophobia: | sex |
genuphobia: | knees |
gephyrophobia: | crossing bridges |
gerascophobia: | growing old |
germanophobia: | Germany, German culture |
gerontophobia: | old people or of growing old |
geumaphobia: | taste |
glossophobia: | speaking in public |
gnosiophobia: | knowledge |
graphophobia: | writing |
gymnophobia: | nudity |
gynophobia: | women |
H | |
hadephobia: | hell |
hagiophobia: | saints or holy things |
hamartophobia: | sinning |
haphephobia: | being touched |
harpaxophobia: | being robbed |
hedonophobia: | feeling pleasure |
heliophobia: | the sun |
hellenologophobia: | Greek terms |
helminthophobia: | worms |
hemophobia: | blood |
herpetophobia: | reptiles |
heterophobia: | the opposite sex (sexophobia) |
hierophobia: | priests |
hippophobia: | horses |
hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia: | long words |
hobophobia: | bums or beggars |
hodophobia: | road travel |
homichlophobia: | fog |
homilophobia: | sermons |
hominophobia: | men |
homophobia: | homosexuality |
hoplophobia: | firearms |
hormephobia: | shock |
hydrargyophobia: | mercurial medicines |
hydrophobia: | water |
hydrophobophobia: | rabies |
hyelophobia or hyalophobia: | glass |
hygrophobia: | liquids, dampness, or moisture |
hylephobia: | materialism |
hylophobia: | forests |
hypegiaphobia: | responsibility |
hypnophobia: | sleep |
hypsiphobia: | height |
I | |
iatrophobia: | doctors |
ichthyophobia: | fish |
ideophobia: | ideas |
illyngophobia: | veritgo |
insectophobia: | insects |
iophobia: | poison |
isolophobia: | solitude, being alone |
isopterophobia: | termites |
ithyphallophobia: | erection |
J | |
Japanophobia: | Japanese |
Judeophobia: | Jews |
K | |
kainolophobia: | novelty |
kakorraphiaphobia: | failure |
katagelophobia: | ridicule |
kathisophobia: | sitting down |
kenophobia: | voids |
keraunophobia: | thunder |
kinetophobia: | movement or motion |
kleptophobia: | stealing |
koinoniphobia: | rooms |
koniophobia: | dust (Amathophobia) |
kopophobia: | fatigue |
kosmikophobia: | cosmic phenomenon |
kymophobia: | waves |
kynophobia: | rabies |
kyphophobia: | stooping |
L | |
lachanophobia: | vegetables |
laliophobia: | speaking |
leprophobia: | leprosy |
leukophobia: | the color white |
levophobia: | things to the left side of the body |
ligyrophobia: | loud noises |
lilapsophobia: | tornadoes and hurricanes |
limnophobia: | lakes |
linonophobia: | string |
liticaphobia: | lawsuits |
lockiophobia: | childbirth |
logizomechanophobia: | computers |
logophobia: | words |
luiphobia: | syphillis |
lutraphobia: | otters |
lygophobia: | darkness |
lyssophobia: | rabies or of becoming mad |
M | |
macrophobia: | long waits |
mageirocophobia: | cooking |
maieusiophobia: | childbirth |
malaxophobia: | love play |
maniaphobia: | insanity |
mastigophobia: | punishment |
mechanophobia: | machines |
megalophobia: | large things |
melanophobia: | the color black |
melissophobia: | bees |
melophobia: | fear or hatred of music |
meningitophobia: | brain disease |
menophobia: | menstruation |
merinthophobia: | being bound or tied up |
metallophobia: | metal |
metathesiophobia: | changes |
meteorophobia: | meteors |
methyphobia: | alcohol |
metrophobia: | fear or hatred of poetry |
microbiophobia: | microbes (bacillophobia) |
microphobia: | small things |
misophobia: | being contaminated with dirt of germs |
mnemophobia: | memories |
molysmophobia: | dirt or contamination |
monopathophobia: | definite disease |
monophobia: | solitude or being alone |
motorphobia: | automobiles |
mottephobia: | moths |
musophobia: | mice |
mycophobia: | fear or aversion to mushrooms |
mycrophobia: | small things |
myctophobia: | darkness |
myrmecophobia: | ants |
mysophobia: | germs or contamination or dirt |
mythophobia: | myths or stories or false statements |
myxophobia: | slime (blennophobia) |
N | |
nebulaphobia: | fog (homichlophobia) |
necrophobia: | death |
nelophobia: | glass |
neopharmaphobia: | new drugs |
neophobia: | anything new |
nephophobia: | clouds |
noctiphobia: | the night |
nomatophobia: | names |
nosemaphobia: | illness |
nosocomephobia: | hospitals |
nosophobia: | disease |
nostophobia: | returning home |
novercaphobia: | step-mothers |
nucleomituphobia: | nuclear weapons |
nudophobia: | nudity |
numerophobia: | numbers |
nyctophobia: | the dark or of night |
O | |
obesophobia: | gaining weight |
ochlophobia: | crowds or mobs |
ochophobia: | vehicles |
octophobia: | the figure 8 |
odontophobia: | dental surgery |
odynophobia: | pain |
oenophobia: | wines |
oikophobia: | home surroundings, house |
olfactophobia: | smells |
ombrophobia: | rain |
ommetaphobia: | eyes |
oneirogmophobia: | wet dreams |
oneirophobia: | dreams |
onomatophobia: | hearing a certain word |
ophidiophobia: | snakes |
ophthalmophobia: | being stared at |
optophobia: | opening one's eyes |
ornithophobia: | birds |
orthophobia: | property |
osmophobia: | smells or odors |
osphresiophobia: | smells |
ostraconophobia: | shellfish |
ouranophobia: | heaven |
P | |
pagophobia: | ice or frost |
panophobia: | everything |
panthophobia: | disease |
pantophobia: | fears |
Papaphobia: | the pope |
papyrophobia: | paper |
paralipophobia: | neglecting duty |
paraphobia: | sexual perversion |
parasitophobia: | parasites |
paraskavedekatriaphobia: | Friday the 13th |
parthenophobia: | virgins or young girls |
parturiphobia: | childbirth |
pathophobia: | disease |
patroiophobia: | heredity |
peccatophobia: | sinning (imaginary crime) |
pediculophobia: | lice |
pediophobia: | dolls |
pedophobia: | children |
peladophobia: | bald people |
pellagrophobia: | pellagra |
peniaphobia: | poverty |
pentheraphobia: | mother-in-law |
phagophobia: | swallowing |
phalacrophobia: | becoming bald |
phallophobia: | a penis, esp erect |
pharmacophobia: | taking medicine |
pharmacophobia: | drugs |
phasmophobia: | ghosts |
phengophobia: | daylight or sunshine |
philemaphobia: | kissing |
philophobia: | falling in love |
philosophobia: | philosophy |
phobophobia: | one's own fears |
phonophobia: | noises or voices |
photoaugliaphobia: | glaring lights |
photophobia: | light |
phronemophobia: | thinking |
phthiriophobia: | lice (pediculophobia) |
phthisiophobia: | tuberculosis |
pinigerophobia: | smothering |
placophobia: | tombstones |
plutophobia: | wealth |
pluviophobia: | rain or of being rained on |
pneumatiphobia: | spirits |
pnigophobia: | choking or being smothered |
pocrescophobia: | gaining weight (obesophobia) |
pogonophobia: | beards |
poinephobia: | punishment |
poliosophobia: | contracting poliomyelitis |
politicophobia: | politicians |
polyphobia: | many things |
ponophobia: | overworking or of pain |
porphyrophobia: | the color purple |
potamophobia: | rivers or running water |
potophobia: | alcohol |
proctophobia: | rectum |
prosophobia: | progress |
psellismophobia: | stuttering |
psychophobia: | mind |
psychrophobia: | cold |
pteromerhanophobia: | flying |
pteronophobia: | being tickled by feathers |
pupaphobia: | puppets pyrexiophobia |
pyrophobia: | fire |
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R | |
radiophobia: | radiation, x-rays |
ranidaphobia: | frogs |
rhabdophobia: | being severely punished or beaten by a rod |
rhypophobia: | defecation |
rhytiphobia: | getting wrinkles |
rupophobia: | dirt |
Russophobia: | Russians |
S | |
samhainophobia: | Halloween |
sarmassophobia: | love play |
satanophobia: | satan |
scabiophobia: | scabies |
scelerophibia: | bad men, burglars |
schlionophobia: | school |
sciophobia: | shadows |
scoleciphobia: | worms |
scolionophobia: | school |
scopophobia: | being stared at |
scotomaphobia: | blindness in visual field |
scotophobia: | darkness |
scriptophobia: | writing in public |
selaphobia: | light flashes |
selenophobia: | the moon |
seplophobia: | decaying matter |
sesquipedalophobia: | long words |
sexophobia: | the opposite sex |
siderodromophobia: | trains |
siderophobia: | stars |
sinistrophobia: | left-handedness |
sinophobia: | chinese, chinese culture |
sitophobia: | food or eating |
snakephobia: | snakes (ophidiophobia) |
soceraphobia: | parents-in-law |
social phobia: | being evaluated negatively |
sociophobia: | society |
somniphobia: | sleep |
sophophobia: | learning |
soteriophobia: | dependence on others |
spacephobia: | outer space |
spectrophobia: | specters or ghosts |
spermophobia: | germs |
sphexsophobia: | wasps |
stasibasiphobia: | standing or walking |
staurophobia: | crosses or the crucifix |
stenophobia: | narrow things or places |
stygiophobia: | hell |
suriphobia: | mice |
symbolophobia: | symbolism |
symmetrophobia: | symmetry |
syngenesophobia: | relatives |
syphilophobia: | syphilis |
T | |
tachophobia: | speed |
taeniophobia or teniophobia: | tapeworms |
taphephobia: | being buried alive |
tapinophobia: | being contagious |
taurophobia: | bulls |
technophobia: | technology |
teleophobia: | definate plans |
telephonophobia: | telephones |
telosphobia: | being last |
teratophobia: | bearing a deformed child |
testophobia: | taking tests |
tetanophobia: | lockjaw, tetanus |
teutophobia: | German or German things |
textophobia: | certain fabrics |
thaasophobia: | sitting |
thalassophobia: | the ocean |
thanatophobia: | death or dying |
theatrophobia: | theatres |
theologicophobia: | theology |
theophobia: | god(s) or religion |
thermophobia: | heat |
tocophobia: | childbirth |
tomophobia: | surgical operations |
tonitrophobia: | thunder |
topophobia: | performing (stage fright) |
toxiphobia: | poison |
traumatophobia: | injury |
tremophobia: | trembling |
trichinophobia: | trichinosis |
trichopathophobia: | hair |
triskaidekaphobia: | the number 13 |
tropophobia: | moving or making changes |
trypanophobia: | injections |
tuberculophobia: | tuberculosis |
tyrannophobia: | tyrants |
U | |
uranophobia: | heaven |
urophobia: | urine or urinating |
V | |
vaccinophobia: | vaccination |
venustraphobia: | beautiful women |
verbophobia: | words |
verminophobia: | germs |
vestiphobia: | clothing |
virginitiphobia: | rape |
vitricophobia: | step-fathers |
W | |
Walloonphobia: | the Walloons |
wiccaphobia: | witches and witchcraft |
X | |
xanthophobia: | the color yellow |
xenophobia: | strangers |
xerophobia: | dryness |
xylophobia: | forests |
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Z | |
zelophobia: | jealousy |
zemmiphobia: | the great mole rat |
zeusophobia: | God or gods |
zoophobia: | animals |
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