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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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