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EDITORIAL OF THE WEEK


Friday, September 19, 2008
Author: Carol Bottstein, School Psychologist

What’s Your Phobia?
 

A phobia is a persistent, irrational fear that actually poses little, if any, actual danger. The fear can be of a thing, animal, activity, situation, place or person. People with phobias have an excessive desire to avoid the feared object. We all have fears, however, when the fear interferes with one’s daily functioning, it can be diagnosed as an anxiety disorder. Physical symptoms such as rapid heart beat, difficulty breathing, shaking and an overwhelming desire to escape the situation may occur. The feelings and symptoms are excessive in relation to any actual danger that may occur.

There are common phobias, such as claustrophobia (fear of closed spaces), acrophobia (fear of heights), arachnophobia (fear of spiders) mysophobia, also known as germaphobia (fear of germs) and glossophobia (fear of public speaking). I thought it would be interesting to list some of the more uncommon or unusual phobias.

Osmophobia: fear of smells

Tetraphobia: fear of the number 4

Venustaphobia: fear of beautiful women

Ambulaphobia- fera of walking

Brontophobia: fear of thunderstorms

Nomatophobia: fear of names

Globophobia: fear of balloons

Gnomophobia: fear of garden gnomes

Androphobia- fear of men

Amaxophobia- fear of driving or riding in vehicles

Gymnophonbia- fear of nudity

Autophobia- fear of being alone

Ergophobia- fear of work

Pteronophobia- fear of being tickled by feathers

Cathisophobia- fear of sitting

Clinophobia-fear of going to sleep and dying

Nostophobis- fear of returning home

Genuphobia- fear of knees

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- fear of the number six-hundred sixty-six

Metrophobia- fear of poetry

Optophobia- fear of opening one's eyes

Peladaphobia- fear of bald people

Siderophobia- fear of stars

Scuirophobia- fear of squirrels

Chromotophobia- fear of colors

Aulophobia- fear of flutes

Barophobia-fear of gravity

Phonemophobia- fear of thinking


Those are just few of the more unusual phobias. If that is not enough, there is one more that encompasses it all-Panophobia: fear of everything!


 

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