Thursday, June 2, 2011

Different Types of Phobias

Phobia is  an anxiety disorder characterized by extreme and irrational fear of simple things or social situations; “phobic disorder is a general term for all phobias”
Phobia
Description
Acrophobia, Altophobia
Fear of heights
Agoraphobia
Fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable
Ailurophobia
Fear of cats
Algophobia
Fear of pain
Amaxophobia
Fear of vehicles, driving
Androphobia
Fear of males
Anthropomorphobia
Fear or dislike of anthropomorphic traits
Apiphobia, Melissophobia
Fear of bees
Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia
Fear of water
Arachnophobia
Fear of spiders
Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia
Fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children
Autophobia, Monophobia
Fear of being alone
Aviophobia, Aviatophobia
Fear of flying
Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia
Fear of microbes and bacteria
Batrachophobia
Fear of frogs, amphibians
Biphobia
Fear of bisexuals
Blennophobia
Fear of slime
Bovophobia
Fear of cattle
Carcinophobia
Fear of cancer
Chiroptophobia
Fear of bats
Cibophobia,Sitophobia
Aversion to food
Claustrophobia
Fear of confined spaces
Clinophobia
Fear of going to bed or falling asleep
Coulrophobia
Fear of clowns
Cynophobia
Fear of dogs
Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia
Fear of dentists and dental procedures
Dementophobia
Fear of insanity
Dromophobia
Fear of crossing streets
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder
A phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect
Emetophobia
Fear of vomiting
Entomophobia
Fear of insects
Ephebophobia
Fear of youth or adolescents
Equinophobia, Hippophobia
Fear of horses
Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia
Fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon’s fear of operating
Erotophobia
Fear of sexual love or sexual questions
Erythrophobia
Pathological blushing
Genophobia, Coitophobia
Fear of sexual intercourse
Gephyrophobia
Fear of crossing bridges
Gerontophobia
Fear of growing old or a hatred of old people
Glossophobia
Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gymnophobia, Nudophobia
Fear of nudity
Heliophobia
Fear of sunlight
Hemophobia, Haemophobia
Fear of blood
Herpetophobia
Fear of reptiles
Heterophobia
Fear/dislike of heterosexuals
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
Fear of the number 666
Homilophobia
Fear of sermons
Homophobia
Fear, dislike, or hatred of homosexual people
Hoplophobia
Fear of firearms (guns)
Hydrophobia
Fear of water
Lalophobia, Laliophobia
Fear of speaking
Ligyrophobia
Fear of loud noises
Linonophobia
Fear of string
Islamophobia
Fear-induced prejudice against Muslims or Islamic culture
Musophobia
Fear of mice and/or rats
Mysophobia
Fear of germs, contamination or dirt
Necrophobia, Thanatophobia
Fear of death, the dead
Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia
Fear of newness, novelty
Nosophobia
Fear of contracting a disease
Numerophobia
Fear of numbers
Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia
Fear of darkness
Ochlophobia
Fear of crowds
Ophidiophobia
Fear of snakes
Ornithophobia
Fear of birds
Osmophobia, Olfactophobia
Fear of smells
Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia
Fear of Friday the 13th
Panphobia
Fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it
Phasmophobia
Faer of ghosts
Phobophobia
Fear of phobias
Photophobia
Hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light
Phonophobia
Hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds
Pnigophobia
Fear of choking
Pogonophobia
Faer of beards
Pyrophobia
Fear of fire
Radiophobia
Fear of radiation or X-rays
Siderodromophobia
Fear of trains
Sociophobia
Fear/dislike of society or people in general
Taphophobia
Fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
Technophobia
Fear of technology
Tokophobia
Fear of childbirth
Transphobia
Fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people
Trichophobia
Fear of hair
Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia
Fear of the number 13
Trypanophobia, Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia
Fear of needles, injections or of pointed objects
Xenophobia
Fear or dislike of strangers or the unknown
Zoophobia
Fear of animals

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