Sunday, October 3, 2010

Fearful Phobia


Wide range of possibilities make phobia to exist. And so, it is more 
common than other anxiety disorders. Phobia vary according to the 
fear, such as:

Achluophobia: fear of darkness
Acrophobia: fear of heights
Agliophobia: fear of pain
Agoraphobia: fear of situations (crowded area, open space)
Aviophobia: fear of flying

Bacteriophobia: fear of bacteria
Brontophobia: fear of thunder and lightning

Carcinophobia: fear of cancer
Chiraptophobia: fear of being touched
Claustrophobia: fear of confined spaces

Didaskaleinophobia: fear of going to school
Dysmorphophobia: fear of deformity

Elurophobia: fear of cats
Enochlophobia: fear of crowds

Gamophobia: fear of marriage
Gerascophobia: fear of growing old

Haemaphobia: fear of blood
Homophobia: fear of sameness

Iatrophobia: fear of visiting to the doctor

Lachanophobia: fear of vegetables

Mysophobia: fear of germs

Necrophobia: fear of death or dead things

Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes
Ornithophobia: fear of birds

Paedophobia: fear of children
Pediophobia: fear of dolls

Sciophobia: fear of shadows
Scoleciphobia: fear of worms
Social phobia: fear of social situations

Trypanophobia: fear of injections

Xenophobia: fear of strangers or foreigners

Zoophobia: fear of animals.

Posted by Jade Dame

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