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  Phobias, Phobophobia

  maya posted on 12/16/2009
  Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
  Acrophobia, Altophobia – fear of heights.
  Agoraphobia, Agoraphobia Without History of Panic Disorder – fear of places or events where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
  
  Agraphobia – fear of sexual abuse.
  Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (as a needle, knife or a pointing finger).
  Algophobia – fear of pain.
  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.
  Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia – fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
  
  Aviophobia, Aviatophobia – fear of flying.
  Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia – fear of microbes and bacteria.
  Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
  Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors or of one's own reflection.
  Chorophobia - fear of dancing.
  
  Cibophobia, Sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
  Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
  Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
  Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
  
  Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
  Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
  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.
  Gelotophobia - fear of being laughed at.
  
  Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
  Genophobia, Coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse.
  Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or ageing.
  Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly.
  
  Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
  Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
  Gynophobia – fear of women.
  Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
  Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
  
  Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
  Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
  Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms (Generally a political term but the clinical phobia is also documented).
  Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
  
  Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
  Megalophobia - fear of large/oversized objects.
  Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
  Necrophobia – fear of death, the dead.
  
  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.
  
  Osmophobia, Olfactophobia – fear of smells.
  Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
  Panphobia – fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it.
  Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
  Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
  Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
  
  Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
  Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
  Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
  Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
  Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
  Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
  
  Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.
  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.
  Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
  Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
  
  Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia, a 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 work place.
  Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
  

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