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Thursday, November 20, 2014

Fears

I have some pretty silly fears. Here's a comprehensive list of all of them:

  1. Entomophobia (also known as insectophobia) is a specific phobia of one or more classes of insect.
  2.  Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort that share both similar etiology.
  3.  Coulrophobia is the fear of clowns. 
  4. Coccinellidaephobia is the fear of ladybugs.
  5.  Thanatophobia is the fear of death.
  6. Shadow people
  7. Lepidopterophobia is the fear of butterflies and moths.
  8. Arachnophobia fear of spiders and other arachnids.
  9.  Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
  10.  Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
  11. Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets. Fear of leaving a safe place.
  12. Agraphobia- Fear of sexual abuse.
  13. Amnesiphobia- Fear of amnesia.
  14. Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness.
  15. Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia, Keraunophobia) 
  16. Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions. 
  17. Atychiphobia- Fear of failure 
  18. Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues - anything that falsly represents a sentient being. 
  19. Blennophobia- Fear of slime. 
  20.  Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
  21. Bufonophobia- Fear of toads
  22. Cancerophobia or Carcinophobia- Fear of cancer 
  23.  Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed
  24. Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
  25.  Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
  26.  Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
  27.  Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
  28.  Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowel movements.
  29.  Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
  30.  Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
  31.  Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror (mine is limited to night time)
  32.  Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of fever.
  33.  Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at.
  34.  Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing bridges.
  35.  Helminthophobia- Fear of being infested with worms.
  36.  Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies.
  37.  Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy when looking down
  38.  Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that eat wood.
  39.  Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes (when in person)
  40.  Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
  41.  Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
  42.  Nebulaphobia- Fear of fog. (Homichlophobia)
  43.  Nucleomituphobia- Fear of nuclear weapons.
  44.  Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
  45.  Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes. (Snakephobia)
  46.  Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
  47.  Paralipophobia- Fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
  48.  Parasitophobia- Fear of parasites.
  49.  Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
  50.  Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.
  51.  Psellismophobia- Fear of stuttering
  52.  Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs
  53.  Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized. 
  54.  Tachophobia- Fear of speed
  55.  Taeniophobia or Teniophobia- Fear of tapeworms
  56.  Toxiphobia or Toxophobia or Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
  57.  Traumatophobia- Fear of injury
  58.  Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape.
  59.  Xyrophobia-Fear of razors. (Past self-injury related)
  60. Jump Scares/being startled
So, there you have them. All 60 of them. I had no idea that I had that many phobias until now. Or maybe it was just that I didn't have the names for them. Man am I a frightful sort of woman! 

Thanks for reading them all! :)

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