Wednesday, December 07, 2005

What are YOU Afraid of??

Right now in Psychology we're learning about Psychological Disorders. The professor gave us each a list of some weird phobias that are out there!!! And yes, these are actual phobias. Some of these are SO fun-e! . . . Just like Car-e! :)

Acarophobia: fear of itching
Acerophobia: fear of sourness
Alektorophobia: fear of chickens
Anemophobia: fear of wind or drafts
Anginaphobia: fear of narrowness
Anthophobia: fear of flowers
Apeirophobia: fear of infinity
Arachibutyytlophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
Atephobia: fear of ruin
Aulophobia: fear of flutes
Auroraphobia: fear of auroral lights
Autophobia: fear of solitude
Ballistophobia: fear of bullets
Basiphobia: fear of walking
Bathophobia: fear of depth
Belonophobia: fear of needles and pins
Cherophobia: fear of happiness
Chionophobia: fear of snow
Chromophobia: fear of colors
Chronophobia: fear of duration
Cleptophobia: fear of stealing
Cryophobia: fear of ice or frost
Crystallophobia: fear of glass or crystals
Cymophobia: fear of waves
Dendrophobia: fear of trees
Dikephobia: fear of justice
Dipsophobia: fear of drinking
Domatophobia: fear of being confined to a house
Doraphobia: fear of fur
Eosophobia: fear of dawn
Eremophobia: fear of stillness
Ereuthophobia: fear of blushing
Genuphobia: fear of knees
Geumatophobia: fear of taste
Halophobia: fear of speaking
Hedonophobia: fear of pleaure
Heliophobia: fear of sun
Homichlophobia: fear of fog
Hyprophobia: fear of sleep
Latrophobia: fear of doctors
Ideophobia: fear of ideas
Iophobia: fear of rust
Kenophobia: fear of empty rooms
Kinesophobia: fear of motion
Kyphophobia: fear of stooping
Linonophobia: fear of string
Metallophobia: fear of metals
Meteorophobia: fear of meteors
Neophobia: fear of newness
Nephophobia: fear of clouds
Odontophobia: fear of teeth
Olfactophobia: fear of smell
Ombrophobia: fear of rain
Oneirophobia: fear of opening one's eyes
Osphresiophobia:
fear of body odors Paralipophobia: fear of neglect of duty
Pediophobia: fear of children or dolls
Penlaphobia: fear of poverty

Phagophobia: fear of swallowing
Photophobia: fear of light

Pogonophobia: fear of beards
Potamophobia: fear of rivers

Potophobia: fear of drink
Siderodromophobia:
fear of railways
Siderophobia: fear of stars
Stasiphobia:
fear of standing upright
Tachophobia: fear of speed
Thaasophobia: fear of sitting idle
Trichophobia: fear of hair
Triskaidekaphobia: fear of the number 13
Zelophobia:
fear of jealousy

So whatever you're afraid of.....I'm sure there's a name for it!

Endingthepostphobia: fear of ending the post. Okay...so I obviously made that one up.


For more strange phobias, click here!

4 Comments:

Anonymous Anonymous said...

HAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!! Fear of flutes!! Aulophobia!!! I could hardly read the rest of them i was laughing so hard. LOL, my word... fear of flutes!!! LOL!

10:38 PM, December 07, 2005  
Anonymous Anonymous said...

I have Chromophobia... I nearly had a heart attack from looking at your blog.

9:00 AM, December 09, 2005  
Blogger SuperStar said...

hey..... I am deathly afraid of clowns.... and I don't know if you know, but I know what Michael Reini's is.... He HATES anything sticky.. Like tape. LOL. Later.

12:36 PM, December 11, 2005  
Blogger [ brooke ] said...

Xanthaphobia is the fear of the color yellow.

4:26 PM, December 19, 2005  

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