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Post by beth on Aug 31, 2014 18:34:02 GMT -5
I think everyone has a few, at varying degrees ... whether fears or aversions.
What are yours and what are the ways you deal with them?
Here's a list to consider.
A
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
Acrophobia – fear of heights
Agoraphobia – fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places
Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse
Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals, a branch of zoophobia
Agyrophobia – fear of crossing the street
Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
Ailurophobia – fear of cats
Algophobia – fear of pain
Amathophobia, koniophobia – fear of dust
Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia, hamaxophobia – fear of riding in a car
Amychophobia – fear of being scratched
Androphobia – fear of men
Anthophobia – fear of flowers
Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
Antlophobia – fear of floods
Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies
Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
Astraphobia – fear of thunder and lightning
Astrophobia – fear of outer space
Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia – fear of failure
Aurophobia – fear of gold – a branch of metallophobia
Automatonophobia – fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
Autophobia – fear of ones potential actions or capabilities
Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying
B
Barophobia – fear of gravity
Bathmophobia – fear of stairs or slopes
Bibliophobia – fear of books
Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
Botanophobia – fear of plants
C
Cathisophobia, thaasophobia – fear of sitting
Chaetophobia – fear of hair
Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
Chionophobia – fear of snow
Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
Chlorophobia – fear of the color green[3]
Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors
Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
Chrysophobia – fear of the color orange[3]
Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
Cleithrophobia – fear of being trapped[4]
Climacophobia – fear of climbing
Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
Cometophobia – fear of comets[5]
Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
Cyanophobia – fear of the color blue[3]
Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
D
Decidophobia – fear of making decisions
Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons
Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
Disposophobia – fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as compulsive hoarding
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect
E
Ecclesiophobia – fear of churches
Emetophobia – fear of vomiting
Enochlophobia - fear of crowds
Eosophobia, phengophobia – fear of daylight
Epistemophobia, gnosiophobia – fear of knowledge
Ergophobia, ergasiophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia – fear of the color red
F
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold
G
Gamophobia – fear of marriage, commitment
Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges
Genophobia, coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse
Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging
Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
Globophobia – fear of balloons, or balloons popping – a branch of phonophobia[6]
Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gymnophobia – fear of nudity
Gynophobia – fear of women
H
Halitophobia – fear of bad breath
Haphephobia – fear of being touched
Harpaxophobia – fear of being robbed
Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of blood
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented)
Hylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
Hypnophobia, somniphobia – fear of sleep
I
Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish
K
Kinetophobia, kinesophobia – fear of movement
Kleptophobia, cleptophobia – fear of stealing or being stolen
Koinoniphobia – fear of rooms
Kosmikophobia – fear of cosmic phenomenon
Koumpounophobia – fear of buttons[7]
L
Logophobia – fear of words
Leukophobia – fear of the color white
Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
Lipophobia – fear or avoidance of fats in food
M
Mastigophobia, poinephobia – fear of punishment
Mechanophobia – fear of machines
Melanophobia – fear of the color black
Melissophobia – fear of bees
Melophobia – fear of music
Metallophobia – fear of metals
Meteorophobia – fear of meteors[8]
Methyphobia – fear of alcohol
Mnemophobia – fear of memories
Monophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice and/or rats
Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt
N
Nebulaphobia, homichlophobia – fear of fog
Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead
Nelophobia, hyelophobia, hyalophobia – fear of glass
Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty
Nephophobia – fear of clouds
Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
Nostophobia, ecophobia – fear of returning home
Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia – fear of darkness
O
Obesophobia – fear of obesity
Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances
Ombrophobia – fear of rain
Omphalophobia – fear of navels
Oneirophobia – fear of dreams
Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at
Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of odors
P
Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
Papaphobia – fear of the Pope
Papyrophobia – fear of papers
Pediophobia – fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)
Phagophobia – fear of swallowing
Pharmacophobia – fear of medications
Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms
Philophobia – fear of love
Phobophobia - fear of fear itself or of having a phobia
Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds or voices
Pogonophobia – fear of beards
Pornophobia - fear of pornography
Porphyrophobia – fear of the color purple
Prosophobia – fear of progress
Psychophobia – fear of mind
Pupaphobia – fear of puppets
Pyrophobia – fear of fire
R
Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays
S
Samhainophobia – fear of Halloween
Scelerophobia – fear of bad men
Sciophobia, sciaphobia – fear of shadows
Scolionophobia – fear of school
Scriptophobia – fear of writing in public or of trying to write
Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
Selenophobia – fear of the moon
Sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words[9] – a branch of logophobia
Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads
Siderophobia – fear of stars
Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
Sophophobia – fear of learning
Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors
Stasiphobia – fear of standing or walking
Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia – fear of Hell
Syngenesophobia - fear of relatives
T
Tachophobia – fear of speed
Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite)
Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls
Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4
Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
Thanatophobia – fear of dying
Theophobia – fear of religion or gods
Thermophobia – fear of heat
Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy
Toxiphobia – fear of being poisoned
Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury
Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13
Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia – fear of needles or injections
Trypophobia – fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes[10]
Turophobia – fear of cheese[11][12][13][14]
U
Uranophobia, ouranophobia – fear of Heaven
V
Vestiphobia – fear of clothing
Virginitiphobia – fear of being raped
W
Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace
X
Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
Animal phobias
Main article: Zoophobia
Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals
Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats
Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee")
Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids
Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats
Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects
Equinophobia, hippophobia – fear/dislike of horses
Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles and/or amphibians
Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish
Mottephobia – fear/dislike of butterflies and/or moths
Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats
Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes
Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds
Ranidaphobia – fear/dislike of frogs
Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
Selachophobia – fear of sharks
Zoophobia – fear of animals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias
What are yours and what are the ways you deal with them?
Here's a list to consider.
A
Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
Acrophobia – fear of heights
Agoraphobia – fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places
Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse
Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals, a branch of zoophobia
Agyrophobia – fear of crossing the street
Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
Ailurophobia – fear of cats
Algophobia – fear of pain
Amathophobia, koniophobia – fear of dust
Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia, hamaxophobia – fear of riding in a car
Amychophobia – fear of being scratched
Androphobia – fear of men
Anthophobia – fear of flowers
Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
Antlophobia – fear of floods
Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies
Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
Astraphobia – fear of thunder and lightning
Astrophobia – fear of outer space
Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia – fear of failure
Aurophobia – fear of gold – a branch of metallophobia
Automatonophobia – fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being
Autophobia – fear of ones potential actions or capabilities
Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying
B
Barophobia – fear of gravity
Bathmophobia – fear of stairs or slopes
Bibliophobia – fear of books
Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
Botanophobia – fear of plants
C
Cathisophobia, thaasophobia – fear of sitting
Chaetophobia – fear of hair
Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
Chionophobia – fear of snow
Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
Chlorophobia – fear of the color green[3]
Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors
Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
Chrysophobia – fear of the color orange[3]
Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
Cleithrophobia – fear of being trapped[4]
Climacophobia – fear of climbing
Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
Cometophobia – fear of comets[5]
Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
Cyanophobia – fear of the color blue[3]
Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
D
Decidophobia – fear of making decisions
Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons
Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
Disposophobia – fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as compulsive hoarding
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect
E
Ecclesiophobia – fear of churches
Emetophobia – fear of vomiting
Enochlophobia - fear of crowds
Eosophobia, phengophobia – fear of daylight
Epistemophobia, gnosiophobia – fear of knowledge
Ergophobia, ergasiophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia – fear of the color red
F
Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold
G
Gamophobia – fear of marriage, commitment
Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges
Genophobia, coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse
Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging
Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
Globophobia – fear of balloons, or balloons popping – a branch of phonophobia[6]
Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
Gymnophobia – fear of nudity
Gynophobia – fear of women
H
Halitophobia – fear of bad breath
Haphephobia – fear of being touched
Harpaxophobia – fear of being robbed
Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of blood
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented)
Hylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
Hypnophobia, somniphobia – fear of sleep
I
Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish
K
Kinetophobia, kinesophobia – fear of movement
Kleptophobia, cleptophobia – fear of stealing or being stolen
Koinoniphobia – fear of rooms
Kosmikophobia – fear of cosmic phenomenon
Koumpounophobia – fear of buttons[7]
L
Logophobia – fear of words
Leukophobia – fear of the color white
Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes
Lipophobia – fear or avoidance of fats in food
M
Mastigophobia, poinephobia – fear of punishment
Mechanophobia – fear of machines
Melanophobia – fear of the color black
Melissophobia – fear of bees
Melophobia – fear of music
Metallophobia – fear of metals
Meteorophobia – fear of meteors[8]
Methyphobia – fear of alcohol
Mnemophobia – fear of memories
Monophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice and/or rats
Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt
N
Nebulaphobia, homichlophobia – fear of fog
Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead
Nelophobia, hyelophobia, hyalophobia – fear of glass
Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty
Nephophobia – fear of clouds
Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact
Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
Nostophobia, ecophobia – fear of returning home
Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia – fear of darkness
O
Obesophobia – fear of obesity
Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances
Ombrophobia – fear of rain
Omphalophobia – fear of navels
Oneirophobia – fear of dreams
Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at
Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of odors
P
Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
Papaphobia – fear of the Pope
Papyrophobia – fear of papers
Pediophobia – fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)
Phagophobia – fear of swallowing
Pharmacophobia – fear of medications
Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms
Philophobia – fear of love
Phobophobia - fear of fear itself or of having a phobia
Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds or voices
Pogonophobia – fear of beards
Pornophobia - fear of pornography
Porphyrophobia – fear of the color purple
Prosophobia – fear of progress
Psychophobia – fear of mind
Pupaphobia – fear of puppets
Pyrophobia – fear of fire
R
Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays
S
Samhainophobia – fear of Halloween
Scelerophobia – fear of bad men
Sciophobia, sciaphobia – fear of shadows
Scolionophobia – fear of school
Scriptophobia – fear of writing in public or of trying to write
Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
Selenophobia – fear of the moon
Sesquipedalophobia – fear of long words[9] – a branch of logophobia
Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads
Siderophobia – fear of stars
Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
Sophophobia – fear of learning
Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors
Stasiphobia – fear of standing or walking
Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia – fear of Hell
Syngenesophobia - fear of relatives
T
Tachophobia – fear of speed
Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
Technophobia – fear of technology (see also Luddite)
Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls
Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4
Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
Thanatophobia – fear of dying
Theophobia – fear of religion or gods
Thermophobia – fear of heat
Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy
Toxiphobia – fear of being poisoned
Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury
Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13
Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia – fear of needles or injections
Trypophobia – fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes[10]
Turophobia – fear of cheese[11][12][13][14]
U
Uranophobia, ouranophobia – fear of Heaven
V
Vestiphobia – fear of clothing
Virginitiphobia – fear of being raped
W
Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace
X
Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens
Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia – fear of trees, forests or wood
Animal phobias
Main article: Zoophobia
Agrizoophobia – fear of wild animals
Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats
Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees (also known as melissophobia, from the Greek melissa "bee")
Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders and other arachnids
Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats
Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs
Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects
Equinophobia, hippophobia – fear/dislike of horses
Herpetophobia – fear/dislike of reptiles and/or amphibians
Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish
Mottephobia – fear/dislike of butterflies and/or moths
Murophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats
Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes
Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds
Ranidaphobia – fear/dislike of frogs
Scoleciphobia – fear of worms
Selachophobia – fear of sharks
Zoophobia – fear of animals
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_phobias
