| Anxiety,
Phobias and
Stress
We are all pre-wired
with the potential to be anxious or nervous. There is not one of
us who has not experienced that sense of dread and alarm that comes
with finding ourselves in a dangerous situation. The body and mind
screams "run away" our heart races, we sweat, we breath
fast, our thoughts are full of gloom and disaster, we are pumped
full of adrenalin so we are stronger and faster and our five senses
go into overdrive, sensitive to the smallest hint of the threat
growing. We have a survival choice; Fight and defend ourselves by
any means or to get out of there at super speed and make good our
escape. This natural way of handling danger is called the "Fight
or Flight" response.
Fight or Flight
Our bodies and our
capacity for thought have not changed for one hundred and fifty
thousand years. When we were hunter gathers our threats and dangers
were a lot simpler. Sabre tooth tigers, Bears, Wolves, marauding
bandits from different tribes, these were all good reasons why the
Fight or Flight response was so important for the survival of our
tribe.
If a moody bear jumped out at us as we collected berries, almost
instantly and without thought we would spring into automatic survival
mode. Fuelled by a massive adrenalin boost our bodies would jump
to full alertness and start plotting the next best move to ensure
our survival. If we were lucky enough to have some distance on the
bear then we would run away as fast as an Olympic sprinter, our
legs and arms pumped full of energy and power by the adrenalin.
If we are cornered and have to fight then the Fight or Flight response
causes our strength to be increased and our reflexes to quicken
and this raises our chances of getting out of there in one piece.
If we make it back to the safety of our cave, we then have a chance
to reflect on what has just happened. we may feel shaky and tired
as the body starts to break down all that excess adrenalin that
is still being sent around the body. As a sense of safety and calmness
takes hold and the body starts to reset all of our alarm systems
to a more calmer sense of readiness. Things like cell repair, our
digestion, the immune systems factories as well as all of the other
systems not deemed important enough to remain working and draining
valuable energy when the danger was at full alert slowly begin to
restart and synchronise again. Our bodies would then gently return
to its natural balance and would stay relaxed until it needed to
use the Fight or Flight response again.
Today the threats we
face are different, we have bills that never stop coming, news full
of disasters, redundancies, wars, worries about school and exams,
our children, our image, our sexuality, partnerships breaking down,
the list goes on and on. As soon as we resolve one problem another
seems to turn up and take its place.
Our bodies cannot tell the difference between a Sabre Tooth Tiger
and a driving test, a Wolf and a job interview, a Bear and a bully
at work. It responds in exactly the same way. Our bodies feel that
they are all threats. The body responds with the same alarms, the
same bells and the same adrenalin pumps us full of the same Fight
or Flight response.
Our threats can be
very specific like flying, lifts or snakes. These threats can stop
us from doing anything that could lead us anywhere near the specific
thing we are afraid off. Some one who is scared for lifts will not
go for a job interview for a job on the 45th floor, someone who
is afraid of flying may only enjoy cruises. Put someone with a specific
fear near their feared object and all hell breaks loose. They experience
a full Fight or Flight response and will do anything they can to
get away because for them, their survival is at stake.
The more general threats that are felt through things like work,
relationships, socialising and family interactions, this type of
threat is particularly difficult because its almost impossible to
avoid these situations. They can fill a person with a continuous
feeling of dread. A person may feel trapped, stressed and in danger
all day, moving from one worry to another. They experience Fight
or Flight from the moment they wake to the moment they fall into
a nervous interrupted sleep. Our bodies do not cope well if they
are under a never ending threat. The Fight or Flight response and
its chemical release of adrenalin is designed for short sporadic
bursts which keep us out of trouble and then the body quickly breaks
down the chemicals when the danger is over. However a continuous
response to danger and its release of adrenalin with some other
powerful stress chemicals disrupts the body's rhythm. Internal systems
slow down or completely stop. Anxiety and stress are now known to
effect people in many different ways, some common symptoms of an
over active Fight or Flight response are fatigue, insomnia, loss
of memory and concentration, sexual difficulties, irritability,
aches and pains, limited lifestyle, headaches, weakness to colds
and flues, chemical dependence and endless worry.
Irritable Bowel Syndrome or IBS is a great example of the impact
of continuous anxiety or stress on a body. In Fight or Flight mode
the digestive tract is slowed down to an almost stop. As the energy
to drive this system is redirected to powering more needed processes
important for survival. The body doesn't know or understand that
the reason for the stress is a long checkout at the supermarket,
a parking ticket or a quarrel. With the digestive tract at a standstill,
food simply rots in the stomach half digested creating cramps, gas,
pain and a whole host of other difficulties.
Paul cannot change
the world you live in but he can help you to discover a way to change
and control your responses to it.
With hypnosis you can spend more time experiencing what is happening
right now in your life and live in the moment.
Instead of re-experiencing something that did happen in your past
and feeling badfor it now or experiencing right now, some worry
that you think will happen in the future and feeling like it has
already happened.
We all need to get back to the cave so we can give our minds and
bodies a chance to reset, repair, regroup, synchronise and rebalance.
Paul will help you
to find your cave
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.
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