Phobias List

TOP 10 COMMON PHOBIAS 1. Arachnophobia:

5. Cynophobia: The fear of dogs. This phobia is often associated with specific personal experiences, such as being bitten by a dog during childhood.

The fear of spiders. This phobia tends to affect women more than men. 2. Ophidiophobia: The fear of snakes. Often attributed to evolutionary causes, personal experiences, or cultural influences.

6. Astraphobia: The fear of thunder and lightening. Also known as Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia, or Ceraunophobia.

3. Acrophobia: 7. Trypanophobia: The fear of heights. This fear can lead to anxiety attacks and avoidance of high places.

The fear of injections. Like many phobias, this fear often goes untreated because people avoid the triggering object and situation.

4. Agoraphobia: The fear of situations in which escape is difficult. This may include crowded areas, open spaces, or situations that are likely to trigger a panic attack. People will begin avoiding these trigger events, sometimes to the point that they cease leaving their home. Approximately one third of people with panic disorder develop agoraphobia.

8. Social Phobias: The fear of social situations. In many cases, these phobias can become so severe that people avoid events, places, and people that are likely to trigger an anxiety attack. 9. Pteromerhanophobia: The fear of flying. Often treated using exposure therapy, in which the client is gradually and progressively introduced to flying. 10. Mysophobia: The fear of germs or dirt. May be related to obsessivecompulsive disorder.

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C

Achluophobia - Fear of darkness.

Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.

Acrophobia - Fear of heights.

Catagelophobia - Fear of being

Agliophobia - Fear of pain.

ridiculed.

Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces

Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.

or crowds.

Chionophobia - Fear of snow.

Aichmophobia - Fear of needles or

Chromophobia - Fear of colors.

pointed objects.

Chronomentrophobia - Fear of

Amaxophobia - Fear of riding in a

clocks.

car.

Claustrophobia - Fear of confined

Androphobia - Fear of men.

spaces.

Anginophobia - Fear of angina or

Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.

choking.

Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.

Anthrophobia - Fear of flowers.

Cynophobia - Fear of dogs.

Anthropophobia - Fear of people or

D

society.

Dendrophobia - Fear of trees.

Aphenphosmphobia - Fear of being

Dentophobia - Fear of dentists.

touched.

Domatophobia - Fear of houses.

Arachnophobia - Fear of spiders.

Dystychiphobia - Fear of accidents.

Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.

E

Astraphobia - Fear of thunder and

Ecophobia - Fear of the home.

lightening.

Elurophobia - Fear of cats.

Ataxophobia - Fear of disorder or

Entomophobia - Fear of insects.

untidiness.

Ephebiphobia - Fear of teenagers.

Atelophobia - Fear of imperfection.

Equinophobia - Fear of horses.

Atychiphobia - Fear of failure.

G

Autophobia - Fear of being alone.

Gamophobia - Fear of marriage.

B

Genuphobia - Fear of knees.

Bacteriophobia - Fear of bacteria.

Glossophobia - Fear of speaking in

Barophobia - Fear of gravity.

public.

Bathmophobia - Fear of stairs or

Gynophobia - Fear of women.

steep slopes.

H

Batrachophobia - Fear of

Heliophobia - Fear of the sun.

amphibians.

Hemophobia - Fear of blood.

Belonephobia - Fear of pins and

Herpetophobia - Fear of reptiles.

needles.

Hydrophobia - Fear of water.

Bibliophobia - Fear of books.

I

Botanophobia - Fear of plants.

Iatrophobia - Fear of doctors.

Insectophobia - Fear of insects.

Pteromerhanophobia - Fear of flying.

K

Pyrophobia - Fear of fire.

Koinoniphobia - Fear of rooms.

S

L

Scolionophobia - Fear of school.

Leukophobia - Fear of the color

Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.

white.

Sociophobia - Fear of social

Lilapsophobia - Fear of tornadoes

evaluation.

and hurricanes.

Somniphobia - Fear of sleep.

Lockiophobia - Fear of childbirth. M

T

Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking.

Tachophobia - Fear of speed.

Megalophobia - Fear of large things.

Technophobia - Fear of technology.

Melanophobia - Fear of the color

Tonitrophobia - Fear of thunder.

black.

Trypanophobia - Fear of injections.

Microphobia - Fear of small things. Mysophobia - Fear of dirt and germs.

V-Z

N

Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful

Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead

women.

things.

Verminophobia - Fear of germs.

Noctiphobia - Fear of the night.

Wiccaphobia - Fear of witches and

Nosocomephobia - Fear of hospitals.

witchcraft.

O

Xenophobia - Fear of strangers or

Obesophobia - Fear of gaining

foreigners.

weight.

Zoophobia - Fear of animals.

Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8. Ombrophobia - Fear of rain. Ophidiophobia - Fear of snakes. Ornithophobia - Fear of birds. P Papyrophobia - Fear of paper. Pathophobia - Fear of disease. Pedophobia - Fear of children. Philophobia - Fear of love. Phobophobia - Fear of phobias. Podophobia - Fear of feet. Porphyrophobia - Fear of the color purple. Pteridophobia - Fear of ferns.