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Common Fears People Seek Support For

 

Fear shows up in many forms — some obvious, others quietly shaping how you think, feel, and move through life.

 

If something triggers anxiety, avoidance, panic, or shutdown, it matters — whether it has a clinical label or not.

 

You're not weak, and you're not alone.

 

With the right support, these responses can change.

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 A​​ 

  • Abandonment (—)

  • Aeroplanes (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)

  • Amphibians (Batrachophobia)

  • ​Animals (Zoophobia)

 

 

 B

  • Bad Breath (Halitophobia)

  • Baldness or Bald People (Peladophobia)

  • Basements (Hypogeophobia)

  • Bathing or Washing (Ablutophobia)

  • Bats (Chiroptophobia)

  • Beards (Pogonophobia)

  • Bees (Apiphobia / Melissophobia)

  • Being Alone (Autophobia / Monophobia)

  • Being Buried Alive (Taphophobia)

  • Being Exposed (—)

  • Being Forgotten or Forgetting (Athazagoraphobia)

  • Being Found Out (—)

  • Being Laughed At (Gelotophobia)

  • Being Photographed (Scopophobia)


 

​ C

  • ​Cats (Ailurophobia / Felinophobia / Gatophobia, or Elurophobia)

  • Cemeteries (Coimetrophobia)

  • Cellars (Hypogeophobia)

  • Change (Metathesiophobia)

  • Childbirth (Tokophobia)

  • Children (Pedophobia / Paedophobia)

  • Chickens (Alektorophobia)

  • Christmas (Christougenniatikophobia)

  • the Church (Ecclesiophobia)

  • Climbing (Climacophobia)

  • Clocks (Chronomentrophobia)

  • Clowns / Jesters (Coulrophobia)

  • Clusters / Holes (Trypophobia)




 D

  • Dandruff (—)

  • Darkness (Nyctophobia)

  • Dating (—)

  • Dead things (Necrophobia)

  • Death (Thanatophobia)

  • Debt (Chrometophobia / Chrematophobia)

  • December (—)

  • Decision-Making (Decidophobia)

  • Deformity, giving birth to (Teratophobia)

  • Demons (Demonophobia / Daemonophobia)

  • Dental procedures (Odontophobia)

  • Dentist (Dentophobia)

  • Desertion (—)

  • Developing a Phobia (Phobophobia)

  • Devil (Satanophobia)

 

 

 

 

 E

  • Easter (Paschaphobia)

  • Easter Bunny (Paschakounephobia)

  • Eels (Cheliphobia)

 

 

 

 F

  • Fabrics / Textiles (Textophobia)

  • Failure (Atychiphobia)

  • Fainting (—)

  • Falcons / Birds of Prey (Ornithophobia)

  • Falling (Basophobia / Ptophobia)

  • Fame (—)

  • Fatigue (Kopophobia / Ponophobia)

  • February (—)

  • Fear (Phobopobia)

  • Feet (Podophobia)

  • Females (Gynophobia)

  • Ferns (Pteridophobia)

  • Fiction (—)

  • Fire (Pyrophobia)

 

 

 

 G

  • Gaining Weight (Obesophobia / Pocrescophobia)

  • Gambling, compulsive (Ludomania)

  • Gaming (Ludophobia)

  • Germs (Mysophobia / Germophobia)

  • Ghosts (Phasmophobia)
     

 H

  • Hair (Chaetophobia / Trichophobia)

  • Hair Loss (—)

  • Hallowe’en (Samhainophobia)

  • Hiccups (Myoclunusdiagphragmaphobia)

  • Healing (—)

  • Heights (Acrophobia)

  • Holes / Clusters (Trypophobia)

  • Holidays (Heortophobia)

  • Home (Oikophobia / Domatophobia)

  • Homelessness (—)

  • Homeless People (Hobophobia)

  • Horses (Equinophobia / Hippophobia)


 

I

  • Icicles (Pagophobia)

  • Ignorance (—)

  • Inadequacy (—)

  • Incompetence (—)

  • Inconvenience (—)

  • Indecision (Decidophobia)

  • Infection (Nosophobia)

  • Injury (Traumatophobia /—)


 

 J

  • Jacuzzi / Hot Tubs (—)

  • Jail / Prison (Carcerophobia)

  • January (—)

  • Jellyfish (—)

  • Jesters / Clowns (Coulrophobia)

  • Jets (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)
     

 


 K

  • Kangaroos (Kagkourophobia)

  • Karaoke (—)

  • Keeping Still (—)

  • Kids (Pedophobia / Paedophobia)

  • Kilts (—)

  • Kissing (Philemaphobia)

 

 L

  • Ladders — (Climacophobia / Bathmophobia)

  • Large Things — (Megalophobia)

  • Laughing / Being Laughed At — (Gelotophobia)

  • Laughter — (Gelotophobia)

  • Leaving Home — (Agoraphobia)

  • Leeches — (Hirudophobia / bdellophobia)

  • Lightning / Thunderstorms — (Astraphobia / Brontophobia)

  • Limits / Feeling Trapped by Limits — (Cleithrophobia)

  • Lions — (Leophobia)

  • Locked-in situations — (Claustrophobia / Cleithrophobia)

  • Loneliness — (Autophobia / Monophobia)

​​

 M

  • Macro scale (extremes of size) (Megalophobia)

  • Madness / Going Insane (Dementophobia)

  • Maggots (Scoleciphobia)

  • Making Decisions (Decidophobia)

  • March (month) (—)

  • Marriage (Gamophobia)

  • May (month) (—)

  • Mausoleums / Crypts / Cemeteries (Coimetrophobia)

  • Men (Androphobia)

  • Messaging on phone (—)

  • Micro scale (extremes of size) — (Microphobia)

  • Mirrors (Catoptrophobia)

​​ N

  • New Things / Change (Neophobia / Metathesiophobia)

  • the News (—)

  • the Night (Nyctophobia / Noctiphobia)

  • Not Being Good Enough (—)

  • November (—)

  • Nudity / Nakedness (Gymnophobia)

​​

 O

  • Oceans (Thalassophobia)​

  • October (—)

  • Octopuses (Chapodiphobia)

  • Office Environments (Ergophobia)

  • Olives (Olivaeophobia)

 

 

 P

  • Paper (Papyrophobia)

  • Pain (Algophobia or Agliophobia)

  • Panic Attacks (Agoraphobia

  • Parties (Social Phobia)

  • Parking (—)

  • Peanut Butter (Arachibutyrophobia)

  • People (Anthropophobia)

  • Perfection (—)

  • Performance (—)

  • Performance Reviews (—)

  • Planes (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)

  • Pills (Pharmacophobia)

 

 

 Q

  • Questioning (—)


 

 

 R

  • Rage (Angrophobia)

  • Rain (Ombrophobia)

  • Reinvention (—)

  • Rejection (—)

  • Regret (—)

  • Religion (Religiophobia)

  • Repetition (Dittophobia)

  • Riding in a Car (Amaxophobia)

  • Rats (Musophobia / Muriphobia)

 

 

 

 S

  • School (—)

  • September (—)

  • Sharks (Selachophobia / Galeophobia)

  • Silence (Sedatephobia)

  • Sleep (Somniphobia / Clinophobia)

  • Sleep Paralysis (—)

  • Snakes (Ophidiophobia)

 

 

 

 T

  • Talking (Glossophobia)

  • Technology (Technophobia)

  • Textiles / Fabrics (Textophobia)

  • Texting (—)

  • Theatre (—)

  • Thunder (Astraphobia)

  • Toads (Bufonophobia / Ranidaphobia)

 

 

 

 U

  • Unknown / Uncertainty (—)

  • the Underground (Cleithrophobia)

 

 

 V

 

  • Valleys (Bathophobia)

  • Vampires (Sanguivoriphobia)

 


 W 

  • Water (Hydrophobia / Aquaphobia)

  • Washing / Bathing (Ablutophobia / Aquaphobia

  • Wasps (Spheksophobia)

  • Wind (Anemophobia / Ancraophobia)

 X

  • X-Rays / X-Ray Machine (Radiophobia)

 Y

  • Yachts (Naviphobia)

  • Yards (—)

 Z

  • Zebras  (Zebraphobia)

  • Zoos (Zoophobia)

  • Answering / using the Phone (Telephobia)

  • Ants (Myrmecophobia)

  • April (—)

  • August (—)

 

​​

  • Being Seen / Noticed (Scopophobia)

  • Being Stared At (Scopophobia)

  • Being Touched (Haphephobia)

  • Being Trapped (Claustrophobia)

  • Betrayal (Proditiophobia)

  • ​Birds (Ornithophobia)

  • Birthdays (Fragapanophobia)

  • Blood (Hemophobia)

  • Books (Bibliophobia)

  • Bridges (Gephyrophobia)

  • Bugs (Entomophobia)

  • Burial Places (Coimetrophobia)

  • Butterflies (Lepidopterophobia)

  • Buttons (Koumpounophobia)


  • Coffins / Caskets (Feretrophobia)

  • Colours (Chromophobia)

  • Commitment (Gamophobia)

  • Computers (Cyberphobia)

  • Confined Spaces (Claustrophobia)

  • Contamination (Mysophobia)

  • Conflict (—)

  • Cooking (Mageirocophobia)

  • Crowds ( Enochlophobia)

  • Crossing Bridges (Gephyrophobia)

  • Crossing Streets (Agyrophobia / Dromophobia)

  • Crypts (necrophobia / coimetrophobia)

​​​

​​​

  • ​​Dirt & Germs (Mysophobia / Germophobia)

  • Disease (Pathophobia)

  • Disapproval (—)

  • Disorder / Mess (Ataxophobia)

  • Doctors (Iatrophobia)

  • Dolls (Pediophobia)

  • Drama (Conflict Anxiety)

  • Drama (Performance Anxiety)

  • Dreams (Oneirophobia)

  • Driving (Amaxophobia / Vehophobia)

  • Drowning (Aquaphobia / Thalassophobia )

  • Ducks (Anatidaephobia

  • Dungeons / Basements (—)

  • Eggs (Ovo-phobia / Ovophobia)

  • Exercise (—)

  • being Exposed (—)​

​​

​​

  • Fleeing (linked to Agoraphobia)

  • Flowers (Anthophobia)

  • Flying (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)

  • Food (Cibophobia / Sitophobia)

  • Food / Over-eating / Indulgence (—)

  • Foreigners / Foreign Things (Xenophobia)

  • Forests (Hylophobia)

  • Exposed (Imposter Syndrome-related)

  • Frogs (Ranidaphobia)

  • Fungus (Mycophobia)

  • Furniture (—)

  • the Future (—)

​​​

  • Graveyards (Coimetrophobia)

  • Gravity (Barophobia)

  • Groups (Enochlophobia / Anthropophobia)

  • Growing Old (Gerascophobia)

​​​

​​

  • Hospices (—)

  • Hospitals (Nosocomephobia)

  • Hotels (Xenodochiophobia)

  • Houses (Domatophobia)

  • Humans / People (Anthropophobia)

  • Humiliation (—)

  • Humming (Phonophobia)

  • Hunger (Sitophobia / Cibophobia variant)

  • Hyperthermia (Heat) (Thermophobia)

  • Hypnosis (Hypnophobia / (sleep) Somniphobia)

  • Hypothermia (Cold) (Frigophobia / Cryophobia)

​​​​​

  • Injustice (—)

  • Insanity (Dementophobia)

  • Insects (Entomophobia)

  • Inspection (—)

  • Intimacy (—)

  • Invasion (—)

  • Invisibility (—)

  • Irritation (—)

​​​

  • Judgement (—)

  • July (—)

  • Jump Scares (—)

  • June (—) 

  • Jungles (Hylophobia)

  • Junk / Trash (Rupophobia)

​​

  • Kitchens (Mageirocophobia)

  • Knees (Genuphobia)

  • Knives (Aichmophobia / Enetophobia)

  • Knots- being bound (Merinthophobia)

  • Knowledge (Sophophobia/ Epistemophobia)

  • Kryptonite (—)

 

 

​​​​

  • Long Words — Sesquipedalophobia / Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

  • Looking Foolish / Fear of Embarrassment (—)

  • Loss / grief (—) 

  • Losing Control (—) 

  • Losing Teeth (—) 

  • Love / Intimacy (Philophobia)

  • Lying / Being Lied To / Betrayal / Trust Issues — (Pistanthrophobia / Proditiophobia)


 

​​

  • Mobile Phones / Being Without (Nomophobia​)

  • Monsters (Teratophobia)

  • Months / Passing of Time / Future (Chronophobia)

  • the Moon (Selenophobia / Lunaphobia)

  • Motion / Movement (Kinesiophobia)

  • Mountains (Orophobia / Bounophobia)

  • Mud  (Mysophobia / Germophobia)

  • Museums (—) 

  • Music / Musical Sounds (Melophobia)

  • Muteness / Speaking Up (—) 

 

 

 

 

  • Numbers (Numerophobia / Arithmophobia)

  • Number 8 (Octophobia)

  • Number 13 (Triskaidekaphobia)

  • Number 666 (Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia)

 

 

  • Onions (Alliumphobia)

  • Ostriches / Emus (Ratitaphobia)

  • Ovens (Fournophobia)

  • Outer Space (Astrophobia)

  • Oxen (Bovinophobia / Taurophobia)

​​​​​

  • ​Poetry (Metrophobia)

  • the Pope (Papaphobia)

  • Poverty (—)

  • Pregnancy (Tokophobia)

  • Privacy Invasion (—)

  • Progress (—)

  • Public Speaking (Glossophobia)

  • Public Toilets (—)

  • Public Transport (—)

  • Puppets (Pupaphobia)

  • Puppies (Cynophobia)

​​​​

​​

  • Quicksand (—)

 

  • Ridicule (—)

  • Rooms (Claustrophobia / Koinoniphobia)

  • Ruin (—)

  • Ruins (Atephobia)

  • Rupture (—)

  • Running (—)

  • Running Out (—)​

 

  • Spiders (Arachnophobia)

  • Speech (Glossophobia)

  • Speed (Tachophobia)

  • Squids (Teuthophobia)

  • Strangers / Foreigners (Xenophobia)

  • Success (—)

  • Sugar (—)

​​​​

  • Toadstools (Mycophobia)

  • Tinsel (—)

  • Time (Chronophobia)

  • Tornadoes / Hurricanes (Lilapsophobia)

  • Trains (Siderodromophobia)

  • Tricycles (Tricyclophobia)

  • Tunnels ( Gephyrophobia / Claustrophobia)

​​​​

​​

  • ​Urination (Paruresis / Shy Bladder)

  • Utility Bills (—)

​​

​​​

  • Violence (—)

  • Viruses (—)

​​​​

​​​​

  • Women (Gynophobia)

  • Winter (—)

  • Writing (Graphophobia / Scriptophobia)

  • Xbox / Gaming (Ludectrophobia)

  • Xylophones (Xylophobia)

​​​​

  • Yellow (Xanthophobia)

  • Yoga (—)

  • YouTube (—)

​​​​

  • Zips / Zippers (Jumaphobia)

  • Zombies (Kinemortophobia)​

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 A​​ 

  • Abandonment / Being Alone (Autophobia)

  • Aeroplanes (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)

  • ​Animals (Zoophobia)

  • Answering or using the Phone (Telephobia)

  • Ants (Myrmecophobia)

  • April (—)

  • August (—)​

 

 B

  • Bad Breath (Halitophobia)

  • Baldness or Bald People (Peladophobia)

  • Basements (Hypogeophobia)

  • Bathing or Washing (Ablutophobia)

  • Bats (Chiroptophobia)

  • Beards (Pogonophobia)

  • Bees (Apiphobia / Melissophobia)

  • Being Buried Alive (Taphophobia)

  • Being Exposed (—)

  • Being Found Out (—)

  • Being Laughed At (Gelotophobia)

  • Being Photographed (Scopophobia)

  • Being Seen / Noticed (Scopophobia)

  • Being Stared At (Scopophobia)

  • Being Touched (Haphephobia)

  • Being Trapped (Claustrophobia)

  • Betrayal (Proditiophobia)

  • ​Birds (Ornithophobia)

  • Birthdays (Fragapanophobia)

  • Blood (Hemophobia)

  • Books (Bibliophobia)

  • Bridges (Gephyrophobia)

  • Bugs (Entomophobia)

  • Burial Places (Coimetrophobia)

  • Butterflies (Lepidopterophobia)

  • Buttons (Koumpounophobia)

​ 

 C

  • ​Cats (Ailurophobia / Felinophobia)

  • Cemeteries (Coimetrophobia)

  • Cellars (Hypogeophobia)

  • Change (Metathesiophobia)

  • Childbirth (Tokophobia)

  • Children (Pedophobia / Paedophobia)

  • Chickens (Alektorophobia)

  • Christmas (Christougenniatikophobia)

  • the Church (Ecclesiophobia)

  • Climbing (Climacophobia)

  • Clocks (Chronomentrophobia)

  • Clowns / Jesters (Coulrophobia)

  • Clusters / Holes (Trypophobia)

  • Coffins / Caskets (Feretrophobia)

  • Colours (Chromophobia / Chromatophobia)

  • Commitment (Commitment Phobia)

  • Computers (Cyberphobia)

  • Confined Spaces (Claustrophobia)

  • Contamination (Mysophobia)

  • Conflict (Conflict Anxiety)

  • Cooking (Mageirocophobia)

  • Crowds ( Enochlophobia)

  • Crossing Bridges (Gephyrophobia)

  • Crossing Streets (Agyrophobia / Dromophobia)

  • Crypts related to necrophobia (fear of death and dead things), claustrophobia (confined spaces)




 D

  • Dandruff (—)

  • Darkness (Nyctophobia)

  • Dating (—)

  • Dead things (Necrophobia)

  • Death (Thanatophobia

  • Debt (Chrometophobia / Chrematophobia)

  • December (—)

  • Decision-Making (Decidophobia)

  • Deformity, giving birth to (Teratophobia)

  • Demons (Demonophobia / Daemonophobia)

  • Dental procedures (Odontophobia)

  • Dentist (Dentophobia)

  • Desertion (—)

  • Developing a Phobia (Phobophobia)

  • Devil (Satanophobia)

  • ​​Dirt & Germs (Mysophobia / Germophobia)

  • Disease (Nosophobia / Pathophobia)

  • Disapproval (—)

  • Disorder / Mess (Ataxophobia)

  • Doctors (Iatrophobia)

  • Dolls (Pediophobia)

  • Drama (Conflict Anxiety)

  • Drama (Performance Anxiety)

  • Dreams (Oneirophobia)

  • Driving (Amaxophobia)

  • Drowning (Aquaphobia / Thalassophobia )

  • Ducks (Anatidaephobia) 

  • Dungeons / Basements (—)

 

 

 

 E

  • Easter (Paschaphobia)

  • Easter Bunny (Paschakounephobia)

  • Eels (Cheliphobia)

  • Eggs (Ovo-phobia / Ovophobia)

  • Exercise (linked to Social Anxiety)

  • being Exposed (linked to Imposter Syndrome)​

 

 

 F

  • Fabrics / Textiles (Textophobia)

  • Failure (Atychiphobia)

  • Fainting (—)

  • Falcons / Birds of Prey (Ornithophobia)

  • Falling (Basophobia / Ptophobia)

  • Fame (—)

  • Fatigue (Kopophobia / Ponophobia)

  • February (—)

  • Feet (Podophobia)

  • Females (Gynophobia)

  • Ferns (Pteridophobia)

  • Fiction (Societal anxiety)

  • Fire (Pyrophobia)

  • Fleeing (—)

  • Flowers (Anthophobia)

  • Flying (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)

  • Food (Cibophobia)

  • Food / Over-eating / Indulgence (—)

  • Foreigners / Foreign Things (Xenophobia)

  • Forests (Hylophobia)

  • / Exposed (Imposter Syndrome-related)

  • Frogs (Ranidaphobia / Batrachophobia)

  • Fungus (Mycophobia)

  • Furniture (—)

  • the Future (Chronophobia)

 

 

 G

  • Gaining Weight (Obesophobia)

  • Gambling, compulsive (Ludomania)

  • Gaming (Ludophobia)

  • Germs (Mysophobia)

  • Ghosts (Phasmophobia)
    Graveyards (Coimetrophobia)

  • Gravity (Barophobia)

  • Groups (Enochlophobia / Anthropophobia)

  • Growing Old (Gerascophobia)

 H

  • Hair (Chaetophobia)

  • Hair Loss (—)

  • Hallowe’en (Samhainophobia)

  • Hiccups (Myoclunusdiagphragmaphobia)

  • Healing (—)

  • Heights (Acrophobia)

  • Holes / Clusters (Trypophobia)

  • Holidays (Heortophobia

  • Home (Oikophobia / Domatophobia)

  • Homelessness 

  • Horses (Equinophobia / Hippophobia)

  • Hospices (—)

  • Hospitals (Nosocomephobia)

  • Hotels (Xenodochiophobia)

  • Houses (Domatophobia)

  • Humans / People (Anthropophobia)

  • Humiliation (Atychiphobia / Shame phobia)

  • Humming (—)

  • Hunger (Sitophobia / Cibophobia variant)

  • Hyperthermia (Heat) (Thermophobia)

  • Hypnosis (Hypnophobia / (sleep) Somniphobia)

  • Hypothermia (Cold) (Frigophobia / Cryophobia)

​​

​ I

  • Icicles (Pagophobia)

  • Ignorance (—)

  • Inadequacy (—)

  • Incompetence (—)

  • Inconvenience (—)

  • Indecision (Decidophobia)

  • Infection / Illness (Nosophobia / Pathophobia)

  • Injury (Traumatophobia /—)

  • ​Injustice (—)

  • Insanity (Psychophobia)

  • Insects (Entomophobia)

  • Inspection (—)

  • Intimacy (—)

  • Invasion (—)

  • Invisibility (—)

  • Irritation (—)

 

 J

  • Jacuzzi / Hot Tubs (—)

  • Jail / Prison (—)

  • January

  • Jellyfish (—)

  • Jesters / Clowns (Coulrophobia)

  • Jets (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)
    Judgement (—)

  • July

  • Jump Scares (—)

  • June (—) 

  • Jungles (—)

  • Junk / Trash (—)

 


 K

  • Kangaroos (—)

  • Karaoke (—)

  • Keeping Still (—)

  • Kids (Pedophobia / Paedophobia)

  • Kilts (—)

  • Kissing (Philemaphobia)

  • Kitchens (Mageirocophobia)

  • Knees (—)

  • Knives (Aichmophobia / Enetophobia)

  • Knots (—)

  • Knowledge (Sophophobia)

  • Kryptonite (—)

 

 L

  • Ladders — Climacophobia / Bathmophobia

  • Large Things — Megalophobia

  • Laughing / Being Laughed At — Gelotophobia

  • Laughter — (see above — Gelotophobia)

  • Leaving Home / Fear of Separation — Atychiphobia

  • Leeches — Hirudophobia

  • Lightning / Thunderstorms — Astraphobia / Brontophobia

  • Limits / Feeling Trapped by Limits 

  • Lions — Leonophobia

  • Locks / Locked-in situations — Often linked to claustrophobia or cleithrophobia

  • Loneliness — Autophobia

  • Long Words — Sesquipedalophobia / Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia

  • Looking Foolish / Fear of Embarrassment — (social anxiety / shame-based fear)

  • Loss — (Fear of loss is grief/attachment-based — not a formal phobic classification)

  • Losing Control — (Anxiety-based; often linked to panic disorder / OCD spectrum)

  • Losing Teeth — (anxiety/dream-triggered)

  • Love / Intimacy — Philophobia

  • Lying / Being Lied To / Betrayal / Trust Issues — Pistanthrophobia / Proditiophobia

​​

 M

  • Macro / Micro scale (extremes of size) — Microphobia / Megalophobia

  • Madness / Going Insane — Psychophobia (panic/OCD)

  • Maggots — (Scoleciphobia)

  • Making Decisions — Decidophobia

  • March (month)

  • Marriage — Gamophobia

  • May (month)

  • Mausoleums / Crypts / Cemeteries — Coimetrophobia / Necrophobia

  • Men — Androphobia

  • Messaging on phone

  • Mirrors — Catoptrophobia

  • Mobile Phones / Being Without a Phone — Nomophobia​

  • Monsters — Teratophobia

  • Months / Passing of Time / Future — Chronophobia

  • the Moon — Selenophobia

  • Motion / Movement — Kinematophobia

  • Mountains / Heighted Natural Structures — ()

  • Mud — (No formal term; disgust-avoidance category)

  • Museums — Museophobia

  • Music / Musical Sounds — (Melophobia )

  • Muteness / Speaking Up — (Mutism-anxiety)​

​​ N

  • New Things / Change (Neophobia / Metathesiophobia)

  • the News (—)

  • the Night (Nyctophobia / Noctiphobia)

  • Not Being Good Enough (—)

  • November 

  • Nudity / Nakedness (Gymnophobia)

  • Numbers (Numerophobia)

  • Number 8 (Octophobia)

  • Number 13 (Triskaidekaphobia)

  • Number 666 (Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia / Number Phobia variant)

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 O

  • Oceans (Thalassophobia)​

  • October 

  • Octopuses (Polypoctophobia / Thalassophobia)

  • Office Environments (—)

  • Olives (—)

  • Onions (Alliumphobia)Ostriches / Emus (—)

  • Ovens (—)

  • Outer Space (Astrophobia / Space Phobia)

  • Oxen (—)

 

 

 P

  • Paper (—)

  • Pain

  • Panic (Panic Disorder / Panic Phobia) 

  • Parties (—)

  • Parking (—)

  • Peanut Butter (—)

  • People (Anthropophobia)

  • Perfection (—)

  • Performance (—)

  • Performance Reviews (—)

  • Planes (Aviophobia / Aerophobia)

  • Pills (Pharmacophobia)

  • ​Poetry — Metrophobia

  • the Pope (Papaphobia)

  • Poverty (—)

  • Pregnancy (—)

  • Privacy Invasion (—)

  • Progress (—)

  • Public Speaking (Glossophobia)

  • Public Toilets (—)

  • Public Transport (—)

  • Puppets (Pupaphobia / —)

  • Puppies (—)

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 Q

  • Questioning

  • Quicksand


 

 

 R

  • Rage (—)

  • Rain (—)

  • Reinvention (—)

  • Rejection (—)

  • Regret (—)

  • Religion

  • Repetition (—)

  • Riding in a Car (Amaxophobia)

  • Rats (Musophobia / Muriphobia)

  • Ridicule (—)

  • Rooms (—)

  • Ruin (—)

  • Ruins (—)

  • Rupture (—)

  • Running (—)

  • Running Out (—)​​​​

 

 

 S

  • School (—)

  • September

  • Sharks (Selachophobia)

  • Silence (—)

  • Sleep (Somniphobia)

  • Sleep Paralysis (—)

  • Snakes (Ophidiophobia)​

  • Spiders (Arachnophobia)

  • Speech 

  • Speed (—)

  • Squids (—)

  • Strangers / Foreigners (Xenophobia)

  • Success (—)

  • Sugar (—)

 

 

 T

  • Talking (—)

  • Technology (Technophobia)

  • Textiles / Fabrics — Textophobia

  • Texting 

  • Theatre (Theatrophobia)

  • Thunder (Brontophobia / Tonitrophobia)

  • Toads (Bufonophobia)

  • Toadstools (Mycophobia / Fungus-related)

  • Tinsel (—)

  • Time (Chronophobia)

  • Tornadoes / Hurricanes (Lilapsophobia / —)

  • Trains (Siderodromophobia)

  • Tricycles (—)

  • Tunnels (Tunnel Phobia / —)

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 U

  • Unknown / Uncertainty (Xenophobia / —)

  • the Underground 

  • ​Urination (Paruresis / Shy Bladder)

  • Utility Bills (—)

 

 V

  • Valleys (—)

  • Vampires (Sanguivoriphobia / Vampirophobia)

  • Violence (—)

  • Viruses (—)

 


 W 

  • Water (Hydrophobia / Aquaphobia)

  • Washing / Bathing — (Ablutophobia / Aquaphobia) 

  • Wasps (Spheksophobia / Apoiphobia)

  • Wind (Anemophobia)

  • Women (Gynophobia)

  • Winter (—)

  • Writing (Graphophobia)

 X

  • X-Rays / X-Ray Machine (Radiophobia)

  • Xbox / Gaming (—)

  • Xylophones (—)

 

 Y

  • Yachts (—)

  • Yards (—)

  • Yellow (Xanthophobia)

  • Yoga (—)

  • YouTube (—)

 Z

  • Zebras  (Zebraphobia)

  • Zoos (Zoophobia)

  • Zips / Zippers (Jumaphobia)

  • Zombies (Kinemortophobia)​

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