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Phobias & Anxiety
A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that consists of a morbid and irrational fear of a specific object or situation that is in reality not very dangerous. The person experiencing the anxiety knows that the fear is unreasonable or unwarranted but that does not stop the feeling from being packed full of distress and panic. Because this situation is so scary and full of anguish the person puts an awful lot of effort and imagination into avoiding that situation or object.

How do phobias happen?
All fears have the capacity to evoke the "flight or fight response" which is the natural way for us to escape potentially dangerous situations.

Flight or Fight Response
Just imagine we are like a little mouse being tracked down by a hungry, razor-clawed Tom Cat: we feel nervous, our hearts thump madly in our chests, our throats go dry, we sweat, we feel dizzy and nauseas, our breathing becomes quickened, we imagine everything is going to hurt us, we cannot focus on anything specific as our thoughts and senses wander from one potential threat to the next. At the same time, our glands pump us full of adrenalin; we grow stronger, faster and super sensitive to the environment. Our hairs stand on end and we are startlingly sensitive to any changes and thoughts going on inside of us, acutely aware of every sensation and vibration outside of our bodies, to any movement, sound, smell, taste, or feeling. At this moment, we are operating at a purely instinct level and this gives us a slight edge over the cat and we call that edge the “fight or flight response.” Most fears are great because they keep us safe, they are learnt from others and from our sometimes painful life experiences. The fear of being hit by a passing car makes us careful when crossing the road is an example of a great fear. Some are little less appropriate, and have a negative impact on our lives and how we behave. These inappropriate fears are called phobias and they can range from a morbid aversion to creepy crawlies, to an extreme and crippling fear of a red balloon.

An example of a long forgotten past event that can develop into a small irrational phobia…

Imagine a small child in a cot doing what babies do, gurgling, dribbling, looking cute and feeling happy as he observes his hands and plays with his newly found fingers. He has just been fed and had his nappy changed and the vase of fresh Violets fill the room with the fragrance of the freshly cut flowers.
In flies a moody wasp. The wasp has had a bad day, is in a foul mood and is looking to unload some high octane pain venom on anything that moves. The child hears the loud buzz and sees the bright yellow colour of the wasp as it lands on his nose and scuttles around. The baby moves his hands to his mouth, brushing past his nose. This is just the excuse the wasp wanted; the wasp takes aim and stings the child right on the end of the nose. The wasp then glibly flies away leaving the baby screaming in pain and shock.

Internal security system
The baby's internal security system immediately starts to learn from every aspect of the negative experience. Each one of his five senses starts feeding information back into his mind, and at the time of the shock his internal security system took a Five-Sense-Snapshot of every element around him, the sounds, the images, the feelings the taste in his mouth and the smell of the room. He stores this sensory-snapshot in his body's active library of potential dangers. This natural process is an essential part of survival, ensuring that if the child is in a similar situation in the future, he is warned by his internal security system to be very careful. As he grows older, the list will grow with other dangers such as getting his fingers caught in car doors, falling off a bicycle, naked flames and being near the edge of a very high cliff. If there is any near match with one of his stored sensory-snapshots, then his internal alarm system goes into a full alert mode and warns him in unpleasant terms. It uses the five sense network to express deliver the message of anxiety.

Seven years later and here comes the phobia…
The boy now eight, unfortunatly finds himself on a visit with a great grandparent who is terminally ill in the hospital. His great grandmother has some violets in the room giving off a gentle fragrance. All of a sudden, a full blown anxiety sets in and the boy feels a mass of uncomfortable sensations in his body: his breathing changes, his arms and legs tingle, his mind starts throwing up dark thoughts of going crazy and death, he feels dizzy and nauseated. He is experiencing a red alert from his internal alarm system, a maximum fight or flight response and although he doesn’t know why, he wants to get out of the room and out of the hospital immediately.

Escape is avoidance
When he can get away and escape the hospital, he feels relieved and calm. He thinks about his experience, trying to find a reasonable explanation. Finding no rational explanation, he thinks it may be something to do with the hospital, he promises to himself that he will never risk going into a hospital room ever again.
This powerful and uncomfortable experience could be directly connected to wasp sting, but the boy may never know this. Even though the boy does not remember the episode, the fragrance of the flowers still has a potent link straight back to the bad experience of the wasp sting. The potential danger list in his sensory-snapshot library contains the scent of the violets in his bedroom from years earlier.

The smell lingers
The fragrance of violets has managed to create an intense, unexplained anxiety within him. The boy might continue to avoid all hospitals as a means of avoiding the perceived anxiety. A phobia requires this same type of avoidance to keep it alive. As the boy goes through his life, any mention of hospitals might cause a mild wave of anxiety in his body as he remembers that time in his grandmothers room, giving him a reason to avoid a full blown anxious feeling. Quite logically, he avoids what he thinks is causing that anxiety, the hospital.

Hypnotherpy for phobias
Eliminating a phobia with Hypnotherapy is fast and effective. The process does not require a lengthy investigation into the past in order to track down the source of the phobia. With Hypnotherapy, it doesn't matter where the phobia started. Hypnotherapy changes the inappropriate reaction to the object or situation by changing the response. It shifts the behaviour from inescapable horror to calm and gentle thoughts of relaxation.
For example, a little girl who has a learnt fear of cats from her Mother might stay with a friend who has a cute kitten over her summer holidays. Initially, the girl would be afraid of the cat. But after spending a few days with the kitten, seeing her friend playing with the cute kitten, she slowly desensitises herself to the threat of the kitten and the anxiety it causes. After a while the link between cats and her fear is severed.

In Hypnotherapy, a person's enhanced imagination is used to safely and gently recreate the phobic scenes that trigger anxiety.
A person with a fear of cats could be asked to imagine being near a cat, very vaguely at first, then gradually increasing in clarity and intensity at a pace with which they felt comfortable. This exercise provides a means of desensitising the person with calm relaxed thoughts, with easy breathing and relaxation. Anxieties and ultimately the fight or flight response is stripped of its entire link to cats. Using Hypnotherapy, this person will be able to cope with cats in an appropriate way in the future.

Phobias

• Abluthophobia: Fear of bathing.
• Acarophobia: Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. Fear of skin infestation by mites or ticks.
• Acerophobia: Fear of sourness.
• Achluophobia: Fear of darkness.
• Achluophobia: Fear of the dark or of night. Synonyms: Nyctophobia.
• Acousticophobia: Fear of noise
• Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
• Aelurophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms: Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Gatophobia.
• Aeronausiphobia: Fear of vomiting due to airsickness.
• Aerophobia: Fear of draft. Fear of fresh air. Fear of flying.
• Agoraphobia: Fear of open, public places like markets.
• Agrizoophobia: Fear of wild animals.
• Agyrophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
• Aibohphobia: Fear of palindromes.
• Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects. See also: Belomophobia, Belonephobia.
• Ailurophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms: Aelurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Gatophobia.
• Algophobia: Fear of pain. See also: Odynophobia.
• Altophobia: Fear of heights.
• Amathophobia: Fear of dust. Synonyms: Koniophobia.
• Amaxophobia: Fear of being in or riding in vehicles.
• Ambulophobia: Fear of walking.
• Ancraophobia: Fear of wind.
• Androphobia: Fear of men.
• Anginophobia: Fear of narrowness, angina, quinsy or other forms of sore throat.
• Ankylophobia: Fear of stiff or immobile joints.
• Anthrophobia: Fear of flowers.
• Anthropophobia: Fear of meeting people or society.
• Antlophobia: Fear of floods.
• Anuptaphobia: Fear of staying single.
• Apeirophobia: Fear of infinity.
• Aphephobia: Fear of touching or being touched
• Apiophobia: Fear of bees. Synonyms: Apiphobia.
• Apiphobia: Fear of bees. Synonyms: Apiophobia.
• Aquaphobia: Fear of water.
• Arachibutyrophobia: Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
• Arachnephobia: Fear of spiders. Synonyms: Arachnophobia.
• Arachnophobia: Fear of spiders. Synonyms: Arachnephobia.
• Arrhenphobia: Fear of men.
• Asthenophobia: Fear of weakness.
• Astraphobia: Fear of lightning. Synonyms: Astrapophobia.
• Astrapophobia: Fear of lightning. Synonyms: Astraphobia.
• Ataxiophobia: Fear of disorder Synonyms: Ataxophobia.
• Ataxophobia: Fear of disorder. Synonyms: Ataxiophobia.
• Atelophobia: Fear of imperfection.
• Atephobia: Fear of ruin.
• Atychiphobia: Fear of failure.
• Aulophobia: Fear of flutes.
• Aurophobia: Fear of gold.
• Automysophobia: Fear of being dirty. See also: Misophobia.
• Autophobia: Fear of being alone.
• Aviatophobia: Fear of flying. See also: Aerophobia, Ancraophobia, Aviophobia,Batophobia, Hypsophobia, Hypsiphobia.
• Aviophobia: Fear of flying. See also: Aerophobia, Ancraophobia, Aviatophobia, Batophobia, Hypsophobia, Hypsiphobia.
• Bacillophobia: Fear of microbes.
• Bacteriophobia: Fear of bacteria.
• Ballistophobia: Fear of missles or bullets.
• Barophobia: Fear of gravity.
• Basophobia: Inability to stand. Fear of falling.
• Bathmophobia: Fear of walking.
• Bathophobia: Fear of depth.
• Batophobia: ( 1) Fear of heights or being close to high buildings. 2) Fear of walking.
• Batrachophobia: Fear of frogs and toads. Fear of reptiles
• Belomophobia: Fear of needles. See also: Aichmophobia, Belonephobia.
• Belonephobia: Fear of pins and needles. See also: Aichmophobia, Belomophobia.
• Bibliophobia: Fear of books.
• Blennophobia: Fear of slime. Synonyms: Myxophobia.
• Bogyphobia: Fear of demons and goblins
• Bromidrosiphobia: Fear of bodily odors.
• Brontophobia: Fear of thunder storms. See also: Astraphobia, Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia, Tonitrophobia.
• Cacomorphobia: Fear of fat people.
• Cainophobia: Fear of novelty.
• Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.
• Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerphobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomat`ophobia, Carcinophobia.
• Cancerphobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomatophobia, Carcinophobia.
• Carcinomatophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia, Cancerphobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinophobia.
• Carcinomophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia, Cancerphobia, Carcinomatophobia, Carcinophobia.
• Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer. Synonyms: Cancerophobia, Cancerphobia, Carcinomophobia, Carcinomatophobia.
• Cardiophobia: Fear of heart disease
• Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.
• Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.
• Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors.
• Celtophobia: Fear of Celts
• Cenophobia: Fear of empty spaces. Synonyms: Kenophobia.
• Ceraunophobia : Fear of thunder. Fear of thunder and lightning. Synonyms: Keraunophobia, Tonitrophobia.
• Chaetophobia: Fear of hair. Synonyms: Trichophobia.
• Cheimaphobia: Fear of cold. Synonyms: Cheimatophobia.
. Cheimatophobia: Fear of cold. Synonyms: Cheimaphobia. See also: Cryophobia. Cherophobia: Fear of gaiety.
• Chinophobia: Fear of snow.
• Cholerophobia: Fear of cholera
• Chorophobia: Fear of dancing.
• Chrematophobia: Fear of wealth
• Chrometophobia: Fear of money.
• Chromophobia: Fear of colors.
• Chronophobia: Fear of time
• Cibophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Sitophobia, Sitiophobia. See also: Phagophobia.
• Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
• Cleptophobia: Fear of thieves or loss through thievery. Synonyms: Kleptophobia.
• Climacophobia: Fear of falling downstairs.
• Clinophobia: 1) Fear of going to bed. 2) Fear of beds.
• Cnidophobia: Fear of insect stings
• Coitophobia: Fear of sexual intercourse.
• Cometophobia: Fear of comets.
• Coprophobia: Fear of faeces.
• Cryophobia: Fear of ice or frost. See also: Cheimaphobia.
• Crystallophobia: Fear of crystals. Fear of glass
• Cymophobia: Fear of waves.
• Cynophobia: Fear of dogs.
• Cypridophobia: Fear of veneral disease.
• Deipnophobia: Fear of dining and dinner conversations.
• Decidophobia : Fear of making decisions.
• Demonophobia: Fear of spirits or demons.
• Demophobia: Fear of crowds. See also: Agoraphobia.
• Dentophobia: Fear of dentists.
• Dermatophobia: Fear of skin disease.
• Dermatosiophobia: Fear of skin.
• Dextrophobia: Fear of objects on the right side of the body. See also: Levophobia
• Dikephobia: Fear of justice.
• Dinophobia: Fear of whirlpools.
• Diplopiaphobia: Fear of double vision.
• Dipsophobia: Fear of drinking.
• Domatophobia: Fear of being in a house.
• Doraphobia: Fear of fur. Fear of contact with animal fur or skin
• Dromophobia: Fear of crossing streets.
• Dysmorphophobia: Fear of deformity, usually in others.
• Dystychiphobia: Fear of accidents.
• Ecclesiophobia: Fear of church.
• Ecophobia: Fear of home. Synonyms: Oecophobia, Oikophobia.
• Eisoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors. Fear of looking into mirrors.
• Electrophobia: Fear of electricity.
• Eleutherophobia: Fear of freedom.
• Elurophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms: Ailurophobia, Aelurophobia, Felinophobia, Gatophobia.
• Emetophobia: Fear of vomiting.
• Enetophobia: Fear of needles or pins.
• Enosiophobia: Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin.
• Entomophobia: Fear of insects.
• Eosophobia: Fear of dawn
• Eremophobia: Fear of lonliness. Fear of being alone.
• Ergasiophobia: 1) Fear of work.2) Surgeon's fear of operating.
• Ergophobia: Fear of work.
• Erotophobia: Fear of sexual love.
• Erythrophobia: 1) Fear of red lights. 2) Fear of blushing.
• Eurotophobia: Fear of the color red; fear of blushing.
• Febriphobia: Fear of fever.
• Felinophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms: Aelurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Gatophobia
• Frigophobia: Fear of cold.
• Galeophobia: Fear of sharks.
• Gallophobia: Fear of France or the French.
• Gametophobia: Fear of marriage. Synonyms: Gamophobia.
• Gamophobia: Fear of marriage. Synonyms: Gametophobia.
• Gatophobia: Fear of cats. Synonyms: Aelurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia.
• Genophobia: Fear of sex.
• Gephyrophobia: Fear of crossing bridges.
• Gerascophobia: Fear of growing old.
• Geumophobia: Fear of tastes or flavors.
• Glossophobia: Fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
• Graphophobia: Fear of writing.
• Gymnophobia: Fear of nudity. Synonyms: Nudophobia.
• Gynephobia: Fear of women. Synonyms: Gynophobia.
• Gynophobia: Fear of women. Synonyms: Gynephobia.
• Hadeophobia: Fear of hell. Synonyms: Stygiophobia.
• Haemaphobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haematophobia, Hemaphobia, Hematophobia, Hemophobia.
• Haematophobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Hemaphobia, Hematophobia, Hemophobia.
• Hagiophobia: Fear of saints.
• Hamartophobia: Fear of sinning.
• Haphophobia: Fear of touch. Synonyms: Haptophobia, Thixophobia.
• Haptophobia: Fear of touch. Synonyms: Haphophobia, Thixophobia
• Harpaxophobia: Fear of being robbed.
• Hedonophobia: Fear of pleasure.
• Heliophobia: Fear of the sun. Fear of (or abnormal sensitivity to) sunlight. Synonyms: Solophobia.
• Helminthophobia: Fear of being infested with worms.
• Hemaphobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Haematophobia, Hematophobia, Hemophobia.
• Hematophobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Haematophobia, Hemaphobia, Hemophobia.
• Hemophobia: Fear of blood. Synonyms: Haemaphobia, Haematophobia, Hemaphobia, Hematophobia.
• Herpetophobia: Fear of reptiles.
• Hierophobia: Fear of priests. Fear of sacred objects.
• Hippophobia: Fear of horses.
• Hodophobia: Fear of road travel.
• Homichlophobia: Fear of fog.
• Homilophobia: Fear of sermons.
• Homophobia: Fear of homosexuality.
• Hydrophobia: Fear of water.
• Hydrophobophobia: Fear of rabies. See also: Kynophobia.
• Hygrophobia: Fear of liquids. Fear of liquids, esp. wine and water.
• Hylephobia: Fear of wood or woods.
• Hypegiaphobia: Fear of responsibility. Synonyms: Hypengyophobia.
• Hypengyophobia: Fear of responsibility. Synonyms: Hypegiaphobia.
• Hypnophobia: Fear of sleep.
• Hypsiphobia: Fear of high places. Synonyms: Hypsophobia
• Hypsophobia: Fear of high places. Synonyms: Hypsiphobia
• Iatrophobia: Fear of going to the doctor.
• Ichthyophobia: Fear of fish.
• Ideophobia: Fear of ideas.
• Iophobia: Fear of poisons.
• Isopterophobia: Fear of termites.
• Japanophobia: Fear of Japanese.
• Judeophobia: Fear of Jews.
• Kakorrhaphiophobia: Fear of failure or defeat.
• Katagelophobia: Fear of ridicule.
• Kenophobia: Fear of empty spaces. Synonyms: Cenophobia.
• Kenophobia: Fear of voids.
• Keraunophobia: Fear of thunder. Fear of thunder and lightning. Synonyms: Ceraunophobia, Tonitrophobia.
• Kinetophobia: Fear of movement or motion.
• Kleptophobia: Fear of thieves or loss through thievery. Synonyms: Cleptophobia.
• Koniophobia: Fear of dust. See also: Amathophobia.
• Koniophobia: Fear of dust. Synonyms: Amathophobia.
• Kopophobia: Fear of fatigue. Fear of mental or physical exam.
• Kynophobia: Fear of dogs.
• Kyphophobia: Fear of stooping.
• Laliophobia: Fear of speaking.
• Lepraphobia: Fear of leprosy. Synonyms: Leprophobia.
• Leprophobia: Fear of leprosy. Synonyms: Lepraphobia.
• Levophobia: Fear of objects on the left side of the body. See also: Dextrophobia.
• Ligyrophobia: Fear of loud noises.
• Lilapsophobia: Fear of tornadoes.
• Limnophobia: Fear of lakes.
• Linonophobia: Fear of string.
• Logophobia: Fear of words.
• Lunaphobia: Fear of the moon.
• Lygophobia: Fear of darkness.
• Lyssophobia: Fear of becoming insane.
• Macrophobia: Fear of long waits.
• Maieusiophobia: Fear of childbirth.
• Maniaphobia: Fear of insanity.
• Mastigophobia: Fear of punishment. Fear of flogging.
• Mechanophobia: Fear of machines or machinery.
• Megalophobia: Fear of large things.
• Melissophobia: Fear of bees.
• Melophobia: Fear of music.
• Merinthophobia: Fear of being bound.
• Metallophobia: Fear of metal.
• Meteorophobia: Fear of meteors or meteorites.
• Metrophobia: Fear of poetry.
• Microbiophobia: Fear of microbes. Synonyms: Microphobia. See also: Bacillophobia.
• Microphobia: Fear of microbes. Synonyms: Microbiophobia. See also: Bacillophobia.
• Misanthropy: Hatred of mankind; pessimistic distrust of human nature expressed in thought and behaviour.
• Misogynism: Hatred of females. Synonyms: Misogyny.
• Misogyny: Hatred of females. Synonyms: Misogynism.
• Misophobia: Fear of dirt, especially of being contaminated by dirt. See also: Automysophobia, Rhypophobia.
• Misosophy: Hatred of wisdom.
• Molysomophobia: Fear of dirt or contamination. Fear of infection.
• Monopathophobia: Fear of sickness in a specific part of the body
• Monophobia: Fear of being alone. Fear of one thing.
• Musicophobia: Fear of music.
• Musophobia: Fear of mice.
• Mycrophobia: Fear of small things.
• Mysophobia: Fear of dirt or contamination.
• Mythophobia: Fear of making false statements.
• Myxophobia: Fear of slime. See also: Blennophobia.
• Myxophobia: Fear of slime. Synonyms: Blennophobia.
• Nebulaphobia: Fear of fog. See also: Homichlophobia.
• Necrophobia: Fear of dead things. Fear of death.
• Neophobia: Fear of anything new.
• Nephophobia: Fear of clouds.
• Noctiphobia: Fear of the night.
• Nosophobia: Fear of becoming ill.
• Novercaphobia: Fear of your mother-in-law.
• Nudophobia: Fear of nudity. Synonyms: Gymnophobia.
• Nyctophobia: Fear of the dark or of night. Synonyms: Achluophobia, Scotophobia.
• Ochlophobia: Fear of crowds or mobs.
• Ochophobia: Fear of vehicles.
• Odontophobia: Fear of teeth.
• Odynophobia: Fear of pain. See also: Algophobia.
• Oecophobia: Fear of home. Synonyms: Ecophobia, Oikophobia.
• Oenophobia: Fear of wine. Synonyms: Oinophobia.
• Oikophobia: Fear of home. Synonyms: Ecophobia, Oecophobia.
• Oinophobia: Fear of wine. Synonyms: Oenophobia.
• Olfactophobia: Fear of smells. See also: Geumophobia.
• Ombrophobia: Fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Ommetaphobia: Fear of eyes.
• Onomatophobia: Fear of hearing a certain word or words, or name or names.
• Ophidiophobia: Fear of snakes. See also: Herpetophobia.
• Ophthalmophobia: Fear of being stared at.
• Ornithophobia: Fear of birds.
• Orthophobia: Fear of property.
• Osmophobia: Fear of smells.
• Panphobia: Fear of everything. A nonspecific fear; A state of general anxiety. Synonyms: Pantophobia.
• Panthophobia: Fear of suffering and disease.
• Pantophobia: Fear of everything. A nonspecific fear; A state of general anxiety. Synonyms: Panphobia.
• Papaphobia: Fear of the Pope.
• Paralipophobia: Fear of responsibility. Fear of neglect of responsibility.
• Paraphobia: Fear of sexual perversion.
• Parasitophobia: Fear of parasites.
• Parthenophobia: Fear of virgins or young girls.
• Pathophobia: Fear of disease.
• Peccatophobia: Fear of sinning.
• Pediculophobia: Fear of lice.
• Pediaphobia: Fear of children. Synonyms: Pedophobia.
• Pedophobia: Fear of children. Synonyms: Pediaphobia.
• Peladophobia: Fear of baldness.
• Peniaphobia: Fear of poverty.
• Pentheraphobia: Fear of mother-in-law. See also Novercaphobia.
• Phagophobia: Fear of swallowing. Fear of eating.
• Pharmacophobia: Fear of drugs. Synonyms: Pharmcophobia.
• Pharmcophobia: Fear of drugs. Synonyms: Pharmacophobia.
• Phasmophobia: Fear of ghosts.
• Phenogophobia: Fear of daylight.
• Philophobia: Fear of falling in love or being in love.
• Philosophobia: Fear of philosophy.
• Phobophobia: Fear of phobias.
• Phonemophobia: Fear of thinking.
• Phonophobia: Fear of noises or voices.
• Photalgiophobia: Fear of photalgin, pain in the eyes caused by light.
• Photophobia: Fear of light. Fear of (strong) light.
• Phthiriophobia: Fear of lice. See also: Pediculophobia
• Placophobia: Fear of tombstones.
• Pluviophobia: Fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Pneumatophobia: Fear of spirits or noncorporeal beings.
• Pnigerophobia: Fear of choking. Fear of smothering.
• Pnigophobia: Fear of choking.
• Pogonophobia: Fear of beards.
• Poinephobia: Fear of punishment.
• Politicophobia: Fear of politicians.
• Polyphobia: Fear of many things.
• Ponophobia: Fear of overworking. Fear of fatigue, especially thru overworking.
• Potamophobia: Fear of rivers.
• Potophobia: Fear of alcohol or alcoholic beverages.
• Prosophobia: Fear of progress.
• Psellismophobia: Fear of stuttering.
• Psychophobia: Fear of the cold
• Psychophobia: Fear of the mind.
• Pteronophobia: Fear of being tickled by feathers. Fear of feathers.
• Pyrexiophobia: Fear of fever. See also: Thermophobia.
• Pyrophobia: Fear of fire.
• Rectophobia: Fear of rectum.
• Rhabdophobia: Fear of magic. Fear of being eaten.
• Rhypophobia: Fear of filth.
• Rhytiphobia: Fear of getting wrinkles.
• Russophobia: Fear of Russians.
• Satanophobia: Fear of Satan.
• Scholionophobia: Fear of school. Synonyms: Scolionophobia.
• Sciophobia: Fear of shadows.
• Scoleciphobia: Fear of worms. See also: Helminthophobia.
• Scolionophobia: Fear of school. Synonyms: Scholionophobia.
• Scopophobia: Fear of being seen or looked at.
• Scotophobia: Fear of darkness. See also: Achluophobia.
• Scotophobia: Fear of the dark or of night. Synonyms: Nyctophobia, Achluophobia.
• Selaphobia: Fear of light flashes.
• Septophobia: Fear of decaying matter.
• Siderodromophobia: Fear of train travel.
• Siderophobia: Fear of stars.
• Sinophobia: Fear of Chinese.
• Sitiophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Cibophobia, Sitophobia. See also: Phagophobia.
• Sitiophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Sitophobia. See also: Cibophobia.
• Sitophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Cibophobia, Sitiophobia. See also: Phagophobia.
• Sitophobia: Fear of food. Synonyms: Sitiophobia. See also: Cibophobia.
• Soceraphobia: Fear of parents-in-law.
• Solophobia: Fear of the sun. Fear of (or abnormal sensitivity to) sunlight. Synonyms: Heliophobia.
• Sophophobia: Fear of learning.
• Specrophobia: Fear of specters or phantoms. See also: Phasmophobia, Pneumatophobia.
• Spectrophobia: Fear of looking in a mirror.
• Spermatophobia: Fear of germs. Synonyms: Spermophobia.
• Spermophobia: Fear of germs. Synonyms: Spermatophobia.
• Spheksophobia: Fear of wasps.
• Stasibasiphobia: Fear of standing or walking. Conviction that one cannot stand or walk. See also: Ambulophobia.
• Staurophobia: Fear of crosses or the crucifix.
• Stenophobia: Fear of narrow things or places.
• Stygiophobia: Fear of hell. Synonyms: Hadeophobia.
• Symmetrophobia: Fear of symmetry.
• Syngenesophobia: Fear of relatives.
• Tabophobia: Fear of a wasting sickness.
• Tachophobia: Fear of speed.
• Taphephobia: Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries. Synonyms: Taphophobia.
• Taphophobia: Fear of graves or being buried alive. Synonyms: Taphephobia.
• Tapinophobia: Fear of being contagious. Fear of small things.
• Taurophobia: Fear of bulls.
• Technophobia: Fear of arts and crafts. Fear of technology.
• Teleophobia: 1) Fear of definite plans. 2) Fear of religious ceremony.
• Telephonophobia: Fear of telephones.
• Teratophobia: Fear of monsters. Fear of bearing a deformed child.
• Terdekaphobia: Fear of the number 13. Synonyms: Triskadekaphobia.
• Teutophobia: Fear of German or German things.
• Thaasophobia: Fear of being idle.
• Thalassophobia: Fear of the sea.
• Thanatophobia: Fear of death or dying.
• Theatrophobia: Fear of theatres.
• Theologicophobia: Fear of theology.
• Theophobia: Fear of gods or religion.
• Thermophobia: Fear of heat.
• Thixophobia: Fear of touch. Synonyms: Haptophobia, Haphophobia.
• Thixophobia: Fear of touching.
• Tocophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Synonyms: Tokophobia.
• Tokophobia: Fear of pregnancy or childbirth. Synonyms: Tocophobia.
• Tomophobia: Fear of surgical operations.
• Tonitrophobia: Fear of thunder. Synonyms: Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia. See also: Astraphobia, Brontophobia,
• Topophobia: Fear of certain places. Fear of performing ("Stage Fright").
• Toxicophobia: Fear of poison. Synonyms: Toxiphobia, Toxophobia.
• Toxiphobia: Fear of poison. Synonyms: Toxophobia, Toxicophobia.
• Toxophobia: Fear of poison. Synonyms: Toxiphobia, Toxicophobia.
• Traumatophobia: Fear of injury. Fear of war.
• Tremophobia: Fear of trembling.
• Trichophobia: Fear of hair. Synonyms: Chaetophobia.
• Triskadekaphobia: Fear of the number 13. Synonyms: Terdekaphobia,
• Tropophobia: Fear of making changes.
• Tyrannophobia: Fear of tyrants.
• Uranophobia: Fear of heaven.
• Urophobia: Fear of urine.
• Vaccinophobia: Fear of vaccines and vaccination.
• Venereophobia: Fear of venereal disease.
• Verbophobia: Fear of words.
• Vermiphobia: Fear of (earth, not intestinal) worms. See also: Helminthophobia.
• Vestiophobia: Fear of clothing.
• Vitricophobia: Fear of one's step-father.
• Xanthophobia: Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow.
• Xenophobia: Fear of strangers or foreigners, or anything foreign.
• Xerophobia: Fear of dryness and dry places, esp. deserts.
• Xylophobia: Fear of wooden objects or forests.
• Zelophobia: Fear of jealousy.
• Zoophobia: Fear of animals.