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28 August 2011

125 List of phobias - Human Fears

In many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms, see, e.g., personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality disorder, love-shyness.


  • Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
  • Acrophobia, – fear of heights.
  • Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
  • Acousticophobia - fear of sound and voice.
  • Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
  • Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife).
  • Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
  • Androphobia – fear of men.
  • Anthropophobia – fear of people or being in a company, a form of social phobia.
  • Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
  • 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.
  • Aviophobia - fear of planes or flying
  • Astraphobia- fear of thunder and lightning.
  • Atychiphobia – fear of failure
  • Autophobia – fear of loneliness
  • Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
  • Bacillophobia - fear of microbes
  • Bacteriophobia - fear of bacteria
  • Balenephobia - fear of pins and needles.
  • Ballistophobia - fear of missiles or bullets.
  • Barophobia - fear of gravity.
  • Basiphobia - Inability to stand. Fear of walking or falling.
  • Bathophobia - Fear of depth.
  • Batonophobia - Fear of plants.
  • Batophobia - Fear of heights or being close to high buildings.
  • Bibliophobia - Fear of books.
  • Blennophobia - Fear of slime.
  • Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias.
  • Bogyphobia - Fear of bogies or the bogeyman.
  • Bromidrophobia or Bromidrosiphobia - Fear of body smells.
  • Brontophobia or Ceraunophobia - Fear of thunder and lightning.
  • Bufonophobia - Fear of toads.
  • Cacophobia - Fear of ugliness.
  • Cainophobia or Cainotophobia - Fear of newness, novelty.
  • Caligynephobia - Fear of beautiful women.
  • Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia - Fear of cancer.
  • Cardiophobia - Fear of the heart.
  • Carnophobia - Fear of meat.
  • Catagelophobia - Fear of being ridiculed or being embarrassed.
  • Catapedaphobia - Fear of jumping from high and low places.
  • Cathisophobia - Fear of sitting.
  • Catoptrophobia - Fear of mirrors.
  • Cenophobia or Centophobia - Fear of new things or ideas.
  • Chaetophobia - Fear of hair.
  • Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia - Fear of cold
  • Chemophobia - Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
  • Cherophobia - Fear of gaiety.
  • Chiroptophobia - fear of bats.
  • Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
  • Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in.
  • Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
  • Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
  • Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
  • Disposophobia, better known as "compulsive hoarding" – the fear of getting rid of or losing things.
  • Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
  • Ebulliophobia - fear of bubbles.
  • Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
  • Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
  • Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.
  • Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
  • Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.
  • Friggatriskaidekaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th.
  • 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
  • Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
  • Gurgephobia - Fear of the abyss, particular the ocean floor or outer space.
  • Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
  • Gynophobia – fear of women.
  • Halitophobia - fear of bad breath.
  • Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
  • Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
  • Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
  • Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
  • Homophobia - fear/hatred of homosexuals
  • Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
  • Hydrophobia - fear of Rabies (Hydrophobia).
  • Hylophobia - fear of trees, forests or wood.
  • Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
  • Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
  • Medication phobia – fear of medications.
  • Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
  • Necrophobia – fear of death and/or the dead.
  • Negrophobia - fear of black people.
  • Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia – fear of newness, novelty.
  • Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
  • Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
  • Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals.
  • Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia – fear of darkness.
  • Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances.
  • Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
  • Ordacleaphobia The fear of imperfection
  • Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
  • Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause.
  • Pediophobia - Fear of dolls
  • Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
  • Pharmacophobia – same as medication phobia.
  • Philophobia - fear of love
  • Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
  • Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
  • Porphyrophobia - fear of the color purple.
  • Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
  • Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
  • Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations.
  • Scolionophobia - fear of school
  • Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
  • Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
  • Spectrophobia – fear of ghost and phantoms.
  • Taphophobia – 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 phone calls.
  • Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
  • Thanatophobia – fear of death.
  • Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
  • 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.
  • Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace.
  • Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
  • Xylophobia, Hylophobia, Ylophobia - fear of trees, forests or wood.

09 July 2009

Anger spoils health



If counting to ten is your technique for dissipating anger, visualize each number as a progressive expansion of consciousness. An ever-broader perspective transforms anger to acceptance. Add to your expanding vision, if possible, the dimension of sympathy.

Don't be clever: Be sincere. Today, greet a neighbor as a friend. Contradict by your good will the ancient dictum, "Your neighbor is your enemy; your neighbor's neighbor is your friend".

To overcome anger, reflect that today's mood may well be transformed into tomorrow's laughter. The same energy would be merely redirected. Why not, then, redirect your energy toward laughter even now?

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