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List of Phobias

There is an extensive list of phobias that are out there in our world; fear will always be in human nature.
The issues arise when fears begin to take over our life that is where phobias come to play.
Our therapists at Talking Works are ready to help you get past your fears and on to leading a healthy life. Below is a list of phobias:

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There are currently 144 names in this directory
Ablutophobia
fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning

Acousticophobia
fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia

Acrophobia
fear of heights

Agoraphobia
fear of helplessness and of leaving safe places

Agraphobia
fear of sexual abuse

Agrizoophobia
fear of wild animals, a branch of zoophobia

Agyrophobia
fear of crossing the street

Aichmophobia
fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)

Ailurophobia
fear of cats

Algophobia
fear of pain

Amaxophobia, ochophobia, motorphobia, hamaxophobia 
fear of riding a car

Amychophobia
fear of being scratched

Anthophobia
fear of flowers

Anthropophobia
fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia

Antlophobia
fear of floods

Aquaphobia
fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water

Arachnophobia
fear of spiders

Astraphobia
fear of thunder and lightning

Atelophobia
fear of not being good enough or imperfection

Atychiphobia, kakorrhaphiophobia
fear of failure

Automatonophobia
fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being

Autophobia
fear of isolation

Aviophobia, aviatophobia
fear of flying

Barophobia
fear of gravity

Bathmophobia
fear of stairs or slopes

Blood-injection-injury type phobia
a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias

Chaetophobia
fear of hair

Chemophobia
fear of chemicals

Cherophobia
fear of happiness

Chiroptophobia
fear of bats

Chlorophobia
fear of the color green

Chromophobia, chromatophobia 
fear of colors

Chronophobia
fear of time and time moving forward

Chrysophobia
fear of the color orange

Cibophobia, sitophobia
aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa

Claustrophobia
fear of having no escape and being closed in

Cleithrophobia
fear of being trapped

Climacophobia
fear of climbing

Coimetrophobia
fear of cemeteries

Coulrophobia
fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)

Cyanophobia
fear of the color blue

Cyberphobia
fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies

Decidophobia
fear of making decisions

Demonophobia, daemonophobia
fear of demons

Dentophobia, odontophobia
fear of dentists and dental procedures

Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder
a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect

Ecclesiophobia
fear of churches

Emetophobia
fear of vomiting

Enochlophobia
fear of crowds

Ergophobia, ergasiophobia 
fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating

Erotophobia
fear of sexual love or sexual abuse

Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia
fear of the color red, or fear of blushing

Friggatriskaidekaphobia, paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia
fear of Friday the 13th

Frigophobia
fear of becoming too cold

Gelotophobia
fear of being laughed at

Genophobia, coitophobia
fear of sexual intercourse

Gephyrophobia
fear of bridges

Gerascophobia
fear of growing old or aging

Gerontophobia 
fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly

Globophobia
fear of balloons

Glossophobia
fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak

Gymnophobia
fear of nudity

Gynophobia
fear of women

Halitophobia
fear of bad breath

Haphephobia
fear of being touched

Harpaxophobia
fear of being robbed

Heliophobia
fear of the sun or sunlight

Hemophobia, haemophobia
fear of blood

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia
fear of the number 666

Hylophobia
fear of trees, forests or wood

Hypnophobia, somniphobia 
fear of sleep

Ichthyophobia
fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish

Kinetophobia, kinesophobia
fear of movement

Kleptophobia, cleptophobia
fear of stealing or being stolen

Koinoniphobia 
fear of rooms or shared spaces

Koumpounophobia
fear of buttons

Leukophobia
fear of the color white

Lilapsophobia
fear of tornadoes or hurricanes

Mechanophobia
fear of machines

Melanophobia
 fear of the color black

Melissophobia
fear of bees

Methyphobia
fear of alcohol

Monophobia
fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self

Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia
fear of mice and/or rats

Myrmecophobia
fear of ants

Mysophobia
fear of germs, contamination or dirt

Necrophobia
fear of death and/or the dead

Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia
ear of newness, novelty, change or progress

Nomophobia
fear of being out of mobile phone contact

Nosocomephobia 
fear of hospitals

Nosophobia 
fear of contracting a disease

Nostophobia, ecophobia
fear of returning home

Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia
fear of darkness

Obesophobia
fear of obesity

Oikophobia
fear of home surroundings and household appliances

Omphalophobia 
fear of navels

Oneirophobia
fear of dreams

Ophthalmophobia
fear of being stared at

Osmophobia, olfactophobia
fear of odors

Panphobia
fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause

Papaphobia
fear of the Pope

Pediophobia 
fear of dolls (a branch of automatonophobia: fear of humanoid figures)

Phagophobia 
fear of swallowing

Pharmacophobia
fear of medications

Phasmophobia
fear of ghosts or phantoms

Philophobia 
fear of love

Phobophobia
fear of fear itself or of having a phobia

Phonophobia
fear of loud sounds or voices

Pogonophobia
fear of beards

Pornophobia
fear of pornography

Porphyrophobia
fear of the color purple

Prosophobia
fear of progress

Pupaphobia
fear of puppets

Pyrophobia
fear of fire

Radiophobia
fear of radioactivity or X-rays

Sanguivoriphobia 
fear of vampires

Scopophobia
fear of being looked at or stared at

Scriptophobia
fear of writing in public or of trying to write

Sesquipedalophobia
fear of long words

Siderodromophobia
fear of trains or railroads

Sociophobia
fear of people or social situations

Spectrophobia
fear of mirrors

Stasiphobia
fear of standing or walking

Stygiophobia, stigiophobia, hadephobia
fear of Hell

Taphophobia, taphephobia
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 telephone calls

Tetraphobia
fear of the number

Thalassophobia
fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean

Thanatophobia
fear of dying

Theophobia
fear of religion or gods

Thermophobia
fear of heat

Tokophobia
fear of childbirth or pregnancy

Toxiphobia
fear of being poisoned

Traumatophobia
a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury

Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia
fear of the number

Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia
fear of needles or injections

Trypophobia
fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes

Turophobia
fear of cheese

Uranophobia, ouranophobia 
fear of Heaven

Workplace phobia
fear of the workplace

Xanthophobia
fear of the color yellow

Xenophobia
fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens

Xylophobia, hylophobia, ylophobia
fear of trees, forests or wood

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