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Phobias: list
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Fear is a normal emotion that occurs when there is an imaginary or real threat to the human body, its principles, values. But when fears pass to a person in an obsessive form and interfere with his normal daily life, they are already seen as phobias. The list of phobias is quite extensive, because there are more than 300 of their species.
If the object of fear is taken as the basis of classification, then it turns out that there are several groups that combine various phobias. The list includes, like many well-known fears, and those that are considered rare.
The phobias of a social nature. The list is presented by the fears of the following:
- loneliness - autophobia
- men - androphobia
- women - gynecophobia
- public speaking - glossophobia
- clowns - kolrofobiya
- talk to strangers or publicly - logofobia
- corpses - necrophobia
- children - pedophobia
- be an object of close scrutiny by other people - scopophobia
- blush when in public - erythrophobia
Fear of movement in space and space itself. Here are quite common phobias. A list of things before a person can experience fear:
- street, intersection of streets - agirophobia
- open space - agoraphobia
- height - acrophobia
- closed space - claustrophobia
- stairs and walking along it - climaxophobia
- hospital - nosocomoephobia
- home and return to it - oykofobiya
- depth - batophobia
- darkness - ahluophobia
You can also highlight sexual phobias. The list of objects of fear is as follows:
- become a victim of sexual harassment - agraobia
- fear of sexual contacts, sex - genophobia
- a phobia to become pregnant - gravidofobia
- fear of kisses - philemaphobia
- fear of losing an erection - medomalakufobia
Many people in front of animals, insects experience phobias. The list is quite interesting. Man, although it is the highest stage of evolution, but can be afraid:
- cats - ailurophobia
- wasps, bees - apyphobia
- snakes, reptiles - herpetophobia
- dogs - kinofobia
- ants - myrmecophobia
- frogs - randidaphobia
- mice - musophobia
- spiders - arachnophobia
- fish - ichthyophobia
- horses - hippopathy
Natural phenomena can also cause phobias in people. The list is represented by fears before:
- sunlight - fengophobia
- moon - selenophobia
- flood - antlobobia
- water - hydrophobia
- forests - hylofobia
- flowers - anthrophobia
- lightning and thunder - Brontophobia
- clouds - nephophobia
- fog - gomihlofobiya
Someone is afraid to get into a concrete situation:
- to be operated on - tomophobia
- marry - hamophobia
- to make a mistake is atihifobia
- pollute - misopia
- learn the news (good) - evpofobia
There are fears of diseases:
- madness - lysophobia
- syphilis - syphilophobia
- Cancer, oncological diseases - carcinophobia
- disease or cardiac arrest - cardiopathy
- poisoning - toxicophobia
- baldness - peladophobia
Phobias can refer even to the human body and its individual parts. So, some are afraid of:
- wrinkles - ritiphobia
- knees - genofobia
- teeth and their treatment - odontophobia
- hands - chirophobia
- unattractiveness of his body - dysmorphophobia
- hair - chaethophobia
People can be overcome by phobias associated with death:
- fear of being buried alive - tafefobia
- death in general - thanatophobia
- fear of being strangled - pnevophobia
- phobia before cemeteries - co-metrophobia
A person can be pursued by various phobias, their list is periodically replenished, and to describe each is quite problematic. Only one fear can disturb one person, another one at once. They may have varying degrees of severity, but they must be combated.
