DOTW: Phobias

Hello everyone…

Does anyone here have any phobias??

What is a phobia ?

strong fear or dislike: an irrational or very powerful fear and dislike of something such as spiders or confined spaces

There are different kinds of phobias

Some of the ones u may have heard of are:

Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.

Agrizoophobia- Fear of wild animals.

Altophobia- Fear of heights.

Apiphobia- Fear of bees.

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.

Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning

Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.

And now some really rare ones are:

Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Aurophobia- Fear of gold.

Barophobia- Fear of gravity.

Cathisophobia- Fear of sitting.

Chirophobia- Fear of hands.

Chronophobia- Fear of time.

Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.

Dikephobia- Fear of justice

So guys…do u know anyone who has any phobias…I think I am may have a rat phobia...but no sure...coz I am kinda really scared of them…but see I don't really know if I actually have a phobia tho…

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IF Misc. Dev team

Wow! a lot of fears... yes I do hav some of these.

bt I'm not sure I've had Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.... 😕

I'm very scared of Spiders, so I think I might have Arachnephobia... Edited by sania_12 - 16 years ago

i think I have Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders
and
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
My mom has
Altophobia- Fear of heights. 😕
and
Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning😆 Edited by sujal_kashish - 16 years ago

woah!! thers a lot of fears and quite a few of them i never realized people could be scared of!!!

i dont know..i mean i dont like spiders much they annoy me but if they are in the classroom and everyone wants to kill it then i put it outside 😕 so i cant be scared of them..i just dont like them!

Originally posted by: ~Anji~

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.

 

Well i guess every1 has some sort of fear ...but some say it openly other not so😳

Kai is scared of big insects ..small ones will mange to kill..big ones...mange to make me run or jump on the couch😆

Cheers

❤️Kai❤️

Edited by Kai_Hiwatari - 16 years ago

I've huge fear of cocoroachs... wat's that called?

Originally posted by: Miss Candy

I've huge fear of cocoroachs... wat's that called?

try looking for it here

http://www.phobialist.com/

wow interesting post! so many fears...haila
I think I have...Altophobia- Fear of heights.



~Ashi

Originally posted by: ~Anji~

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

OMG!! What kind of fear is that??😆

I have a fear of being left alone.. U knoe my friends will leave me and all..😭