Phobia

Facts

There are 3 main catergoies: agoraphobia, specific phobia & social phobia.

• Agoraphobia - describes the fear of being confined without any convenient way to escape, eg. flying on an airplane, lining up in a queue, being crowded places, being alone or even when in open spaces.

• Specific phobia - includes the fear of thunder, animals, water, insects, blood, flying or heights.

• Social phobia - fear of meeting people, public speaking or any social situation.

Fear of...

animals...Zoophobia

bacteria...Bacteriaphobia

being alone or oneself...Autophobia

being buried alive...taphephobia

beards...Pogonophobia

birds...Ornithophobia

blood...Hemophobia

bridges...Gephyrophobia

cats...ailurophobia

darkness...Scotophobia

dirt...Rupophobia

doctors...Iatrophobia

dust...Koniphobia

everything...Panophobia

falling in love...Philophobia

fire...Pyrophobia

frogs...Ranidaphobia

garlic...Alliumphobia

gold...Aurophobia

heights or tall buildings...Batophobia

marriage...Gamaphobia

men...Arrhenphobia

mother-in-law...Pentheraphobia

new things...Neophobia

nudity...Gymnophobia

opinions...Allodoxaphobia

paper...Papyrophobia

school...Scolionophobia

sea...Thalassophobia

sharks...Galeophobia

sleep...Somniphobia

spiders...Arachnophobia

strangers or foreigners...Xenophobia

taking tests...Testophobia

the number 13...Triskaidekaphobia

vomitting...Emetophobia

wealth...Plutophobia

words...Verbophobia