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Every healthy person is capable of experiencing natural fear, inherent in him by nature as a protective mechanism of the self-preservation instinct. Normal fear warns a person of possible danger. Fear that has no connection with the instinct of self-preservation is far-fetched and often pathological. Phobias are pathological fears with an inadequate reaction.

In psychiatry, they are classified as obsessive-compulsive disorders, characterized by thinking disorders. Obsessive states arise against a person’s will and, despite the fact that the person himself is critical of them, he is not able to get rid of them on his own.

A phobia is an obsessive fear that is distinguished by a clear plot, persistent course, and a person maintaining a critical attitude towards his condition. Preserved consciousness and the absence of delusions are signs that differentiate phobias from serious mental disorders (schizophrenia, manic-depressive syndrome).

Classification

To date, experts have recorded and described more than 300 types of phobias. There are several ways to classify phobic disorders based on specific characteristics. For example, the classification of psychiatrist Karvasarsky, compiled according to the plot of fear, contains eight groups of main plots.

The first group includes fear of space in its various manifestations. The most well-known phobias of this type are claustrophobia (fear of enclosed spaces) and its opposite type, agoraphobia (fear of open spaces). Claustrophobia often develops in miners who survived a collapse, submariners after an accident, ordinary people after similar situations.
The second group is social phobia. These types of panic fear are associated with social life: fear of public speaking, any actions in public (for example, leaving the table to relieve yourself), fear of blushing in the presence of others. This also includes the fear of “losing” a loved one.
The third group includes nosophobia or fear of the possibility of getting sick, which is especially aggravated during epidemics.
The fourth group is thanatophobia or obsessive fear of death.
The fifth group includes fear various kinds sexual manifestations, for example, coitophobia or panic fear of sexual intercourse, are characteristic mainly of women and are accompanied by vaginismus syndrome.
The sixth group includes the fear of harming yourself or your loved ones.
The seventh is “contrasting” phobias (for example, a well-bred person’s fear of doing something “indecent” in public).
Finally, the eighth group is phobophobia, fear of the very feeling of fear.

A more simplified classification includes several main types:

children, which include social phobias,
teenage, including fear of space, thanatophobia, nosophobia, intimophobia (a man’s fear of having a close relationship with a woman, and not only intimate ones),
parental – the obsessive fear of parents that something bad will happen to their child.

There are special tests to identify phobias. If the test result indicates phobic symptoms, you should consult a psychologist.

List of phobias

abannumophobia - fear of abandonment
ablutophobia (ablutophobia) - fear of washing, bathing, washing or cleaning
abortivophobia - fear of abortion, miscarriage
aviophobia - fear of flying in air vehicles
Avidsophobia - fear of being turned into a bird
Auroraphobia - fear of the polar lights
Australophobia - fear of Australia, Australians, everything Australian
autokinetophobia (amaxophobia, motorophobia, ochophobia) - fear of cars, motorcycles, etc.
hagiophobia - fear of sacred objects
agyrophobia (dromophobia) - fear of streets, crossing the street
Agnosophobia - fear of the unknown
agonophobia - fear of rape
agoraphobia - fear of space, open places, squares, crowds of people, markets
agraphobia (contreltophobia) - fear of sexual harassment, sex
agrizoophobia - fear of wild animals
addicerophobia - fear of a bad habit
Asiaphobia - fear of everything Asian
aibophobia - fear of palindromes
ailurophobia (galeophobia, gatophobia) - fear of cats
Aichmophobia - fear of sharp objects
acarophobia - fear of ticks
aquaphobia - fear of water, drowning, see hydrophobia
acculturaphobia - fear of assimilation
acliophobia - fear of deafness
aconsciusiophobia - fear of falling into unconsciousness
acrotomophobia - fear of amputation
acrophobia - fear of heights
Akusapungerephobia - fear of acupuncture
acousticophobia (lygrophobia, phonophobia) - fear of loud sounds
algophobia - fear of pain
alektorophobia - fear of roosters
alkephobia - fear of deer
Alliumophobia - fear of garlic
allodoxophobia - fear of opposing opinions
albuminurophobia - fear of kidney disease
altocalciphobia - fear of shoes, high heels
amaxophobia - fear of carriages
Amaruphobia - fear of bitterness
amatophobia - fear of dust
amaurophobia - fear of blindness
Ambulaphobia - fear of body movement
Ameriphobia - fear of everything American
Amychophobia - fear of scratching
amnesiophobia - fear of amnesia
Anablepophobia - fear of looking up
Anasteemophobia - fear of height difference
Anglophobia - fear of everything English
angrophobia - fear of becoming angry oneself, anger
andromimetophobia - fear of women imitating men
androphobia - fear of men
androticolobomassophobia - fear of men's ears
anecophobia - fear of homelessness
anemophobia - fear of wind
animatophobia - fear of cartoon characters
Ankylophobia - fear of joint immobility
anticophobia - fear of antiques
anthlophobia - fear of floods
antophobia - fear of flowers
anthropophobia - fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
Anuptaphobia - fear of being single
apeirophobia - fear of infinity
apiphobia - fear of bees, wasps; special case zoophobia
apocalypsophobia - fear of the end of the world
apotemnophobia - fear of amputation
approbarephobia - fear of approval
arachibutyrophobia - fear of peanut butter (including that it will stick to the roof of the mouth)
arachnophobia - fear of spiders; a special case of zoophobia
Argentophobia - fear of silver
Aripophobia - fear of cleanliness
arcanophobia - fear of magic
arctophobia - fear of plush toys
arcusophobia - fear of arches
Arsonophobia - fear of arson
asymmetriophobia - fear of asymmetry
asthenophobia - fear of weakness
astraphobia - fear of the starry sky
astrologiophobia - fear of astrology, astrologers
asphyxiophobia - fear of self-suffocation
Ascendarophobia - fear of hills
atazagoraphobia - fear of being forgotten by others
ataxiaphobia - fear of ataxia
ataxiophobia - fear of disorder
atanphobia - fear of oats
atelophobia - fear of imperfection
atephobia - fear of destruction
atychiphobia - fear of making a mistake, failing
atomosophobia - fear of nuclear energy and nuclear war
Autoritophobia - fear of government officials
aulophobia - fear of wind instruments
aurophobia - fear of gold
autismphobia - fear of autism (as well as Asperger's and Tourette's syndromes)
autoassassinophobia - fear of suicide
autogonistophobia - fear of being filmed on camera
autodisomophobia - fear of one's own body odor
automysophobia - fear of contaminating one's body
autophobia - fear of oneself
Aurangephobia - fear of the color orange
aphephobia - see haptophobia
afronemophobia - fear of irrational thinking
Afrophobia - fear of everything African
achluophobia - fear of the dark, see nyctophobia
acerophobia - fear of acid
acidusrigarephobia - fear of acid rain
aeroacrophobia - fear of open spaces at heights
Aeronausiphobia - fear of air sickness
aeropoluerephobia - fear of air pollution
aerophobia - fear of flying, as well as the air
aeroemphysemophobia - fear of decompression sickness
aesophobia - fear of copper
aetatemophobia - fear of aging

bateophobia - see acrophobia
Belonophobia - see Aichmophobia
brontophobia - fear of thunder, see astraphobia

verminophobia - fear of bacteria, germs, infection
Vespertiliophobia - fear of bats
vomitophobia - see emetophobia

galeophobia, gatophobia - see ailurophobia
halitophobia (English) - fear unpleasant odor from mouth
haptophobia (aphephobia, haphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, haptephobia, thixophobia) - fear of being touched by others
hexakosioyhexekontahexaphobia - fear of the number 666
heliophobia (English) (heleophobia) - fear of the sun, sunlight
gelotophobia - fear of being the object of humor or ridicule
hemophobia (hematophobia, hemaphobia) - fear of blood
genophobia (English), coitophobia - fear of sex, sexual contacts
gerontophobia (gerascophobia) - fear or hatred of older people or one's own aging
germophobia - see mysophobia
herpetophobia - fear of reptiles, reptiles, snakes; a special case of zoophobia
heterophobia - fear of the opposite sex
Gephyrophobia - fear of bridges
hydrosophobia - fear of sweating
hydrophobia (aquaphobia) - fear of water, dampness, liquids
hylophobia (xylophobia, nygohylophobia, hilophobia) - fear of the forest, getting lost in the forest
Gymnophobia (English) - fear of nudity
gynecophobia (English) (gynephobia, gynophobia) - fear of women
Hypengiophobia - fear of taking responsibility
hippophobia - fear of horses; a special case of zoophobia
glossophobia (peiraphobia) - fear of public speaking
Gnosiophobia (epistemophobia) - fear of knowledge/cognition
homophobia - fear and, as a result, rejection and negative reaction to manifestations of homosexuality
hoplophobia (hoplophobia) - fear of weapons
gravidophobia - fear of meeting a pregnant woman, pregnancy

demophobia (ochlophobia) - fear of crowds, crowds
dentophobia (odontophobia) - fear of dentists, dental treatment
decidophobia - fear of making decisions
dysmorphophobia - fear of physical defects in one's own appearance
dromophobia - see agyrophobia

zoophobia - fear of animals

iatrophobia - see iatrophobia
insectophobia - fear of insects; a special case of zoophobia

caninophobia - fear of dogs
carcinophobia (carcinophobia, kacerophobia) - fear of getting cancer, a malignant tumor
catagelophobia - fear of ridicule
keraunophobia - fear of lightning, see astraphobia
cynophobia - fear of dogs
claustrophobia - fear of enclosed spaces
kleptophobia - fear of stealing or being robbed
Climacophobia (climactophobia) - fear of walking up stairs, stairs
coitophobia - see genophobia
contraltophobia - see agraphobia
coprophobia - fear of feces
coulrophobia (English) - fear of clowns
xenophobia - fear or hatred of someone or something foreign, unfamiliar, unusual
xylophobia - see hylophobia

ligyrophobia - see acousticophobia
logophobia (verbophobia) - fear of speaking in public or with strangers

megalophobia - fear of large (huge, gigantic) objects/objects
mysophobia (germophobia) - fear of getting infected infectious disease, dirt, touching surrounding objects
myrmecophobia - fear of ants; a special case of zoophobia
monitorophobia - fear of observation, surveillance

necrophobia - fear of corpses and funeral items
neophobia (English) - fear of new things, changes
nobodyhylophobia - see hylophobia
nomophobia - fear of being left without mobile phone, no connection
nosophobia (English) - fear of getting sick
nosocomephobia (English) - fear of hospitals
nyctophobia (English) (achluophobia, scotophobia, eluophobia) - fear of the dark, night

odontophobia - see dentophobia
oikophobia (English) - fear of home, returning home
Omnibusophobia - fear of buses
osmophobia (English) - fear of body odors
ornithophobia - fear of birds and their feathers; a special case of zoophobia
ophidiophobia (English), or ophiophobia - fear of snakes; a special case of herpetophobia
ochlophobia - fear of crowds, see demophobia

panphobia (English) (panaphobia, panophobia, pantophobia) - fear of everything or constant fear for an unknown reason
paruresis - fear of urinating in public
pediophobia (English) - fear of dolls
pedophobia - any obsessive fear of children or products imitating them
peiraphobia - see glossophobia
pyrophobia - fear of fire, fires, death from fire
Poliophobia - fear of police officers
pnigophobia - fear of suffocation

radiophobia - fear of radiation
Ranidophobia - fear of frogs
rectophobia - fear of being rejected
Ripophobia - fear of dirt
rodentophobia - fear of rats

selachophobia - fear of sharks
scelerophobia - fear of bad people
scoleciphobia - fear of worms, infectious insects; a special case of zoophobia
scopophobia (English) (scopophobia) - fear of being closely looked at by others
scotophobia - see nyctophobia
somniphobia - fear of sleeping
social phobia - fear of society, contacts, awkward behavior in society, evaluation by others
spectrophobia (English) - 1) fear of ghosts
spectrophobia - 2) the same as eisoptrophobia

Thanatophobia (English) - fear of death
taphophobia - fear of being buried alive, of funerals
telephone phobia (English) - fear of the telephone, waiting for a telephone call
terrorophobia - fear of terrorism
tetraphobia - fear of the number 4
thixophobia - see haptophobia
tokophobia (maleusiophobia) - fear of childbirth
tonitrophobia - see astraphobia
traumaticphobia (English) - fear of injury
transphobia - fear and, as a result, rejection and negative reaction to manifestations of transgenderism
trypanophobia (English) - fear of needles and pricks
trypophobia - fear of cluster holes (not recognized by the Diagnostic American Psychiatric Association).
triskaidekaphobia (terdekaphobia) - fear of the number 13
trichophobia (English) - fear of hair getting into food, clothing, or body surfaces

phagophobia (English) - fear of swallowing, choking on food
pharmacophobia - fear of treatment, taking medications
Felinophobia - fear of cats
philophobia (English) - fear of falling in love
phobophobia (phobiophobia) - fear of phobias (fears), the appearance of symptoms of fear, fear of experiencing fright
phonophobia - see acousticophobia
friggatriskaidekaphobia - see paraskavedekatriaphobia

hilophobia - see hylophobia
Chemophobia - fear of chemistry
hoplophobia (hoplophobia) - fear of weapons
chronophobia - fear of time

Eisoptrophobia (spectrophobia) - fear of one's own reflection in the mirror
eluophobia - see nyctophobia
emetophobia (English) (vomitophobia) - fear of vomiting
entomophobia - fear of insects
ergasiophobia (English) - fear of operating (among surgeons)
ergophobia (English) - fear of working, performing any actions
eremophobia - fear of loneliness
erythrophobia (English) - fear of facial redness (fear of blushing in public)
erotophobia - fear of sex or questions about sex
ephebiphobia - fear of teenagers

Iatrophobia - fear of doctors

The mechanisms of the appearance of phobias have not been fully studied, but the categories of people predisposed to their development are known. A significant role is played by the genetic factor. In more than 80% of cases, phobic disorders occur in children whose parents themselves are anxious and, in the process of upbringing, involuntarily form in the child the perception of the world as a dangerous environment. That is, phobias are predominantly generated by the family and are steadily supported by it.

As a rule, emotionally sensitive types of people with a rich imagination are prone to phobias. It has been established that for the most part, panic fears are provoked by one single case when a dangerous (or imaginary dangerous) situation has arisen.

Having once experienced such a “terrible” situation, having experienced a panic attack, people try in every possible way to prevent this from happening again. As a result of such cultivation of negative memories and images, a disease develops.

It often turns out that it is not the object of fear itself that frightens a person, but the actual experience of fear and the terrible and painful sensations that he experiences during an attack. People can sometimes suffer for years and not know that the way out of the situation is quite simple.

It is interesting that in old age fears are extremely rare; by this period people, as a rule, get rid of them. Originating in childhood or adolescence, panic phenomena continue (if left untreated) until the age of 45-50. Women are more susceptible to them - in 65% of cases, which can be explained by the influence of a hormonal factor. After 50 years, phobic disorders weaken and disappear altogether.

Signs

The main symptom of phobias is the obsessive avoidance of situations that provoke feelings of fear and the onset of an attack or panic attack. Such an attack is easily recognized by the following symptoms:

spasms in the throat and choking,
cardiopalmus,
weakness and numbness throughout the body,
premonition of fainting,
profuse cold sweat,
feeling of horror
trembling in the body,
upset stomach, possible vomiting,
a feeling of loss of control over the body, it becomes “not mine”,
feeling like you're going crazy.

The presence of four symptoms from this list may indicate a developed phobia.

A phobic situation is characterized by an uncontrolled growth of fear as the danger grows in the person’s imagination. He focuses more and more deeply on the unpleasant sensations caused by the phobic reaction, without trying to reorient himself to what can calm him down. The panic state is so painful that it forces the patient to avoid any stimuli (words, memories, images) that can provoke a phobic reaction. It is not uncommon to find that symptoms diminish or disappear completely in the presence of a trusted loved one.

Treatment

The main treatment for phobias is psychotherapy. There are several methods of psychotherapy: cognitive behavioral therapy, behavioral therapy, hypnosis, systematic desensitization, Gestalt psychology, relaxation and auto-training techniques. The choice of technique is selected individually during a conversation between the doctor and the patient. Moreover, identifying the cause of the disease is considered half the success in treatment. The main goal of therapy is to develop in a person the ability to face a phobic situation face to face and exist in it without losing self-control, to convince him through experience (not through mental conclusions) that in reality this situation is not at all dangerous for him.

The method of immersing the patient in a real phobic situation - the method of cognitive behavioral therapy - is recognized as the most effective. It allows you to restore more realistic and natural ways of responding to the source of the phobia, increasing your sense of reality and reducing your level of fear.

The doctor equips a person suffering from a phobia with a set of psychological tools that will help him work on himself.

The use of drug therapy for mild forms of phobias is neither justified nor effective. In addition, there is a risk of the patient developing drug dependence on psychotropic drugs. That's why drug treatment used only in cases of panic attacks or acute attacks of phobias, when it is difficult to do without their help.

How to help yourself

The overwhelming majority of cases prove that with the right approach to the problem, fears disappear forever. Constant attempts to avoid meeting the source of phobias only aggravate the disease and contribute to its progression. The solution is to show courage, meet fear halfway and let it “cover” you. And nothing bad will happen. Then the brain will begin, relatively speaking, to understand that there is no need to activate the fear mechanism in this situation, since it is really not dangerous. Indeed, in the entire history of the study of phobias, there has not been a recorded case of a panic attack causing obvious harm to a person’s health.

Below is a video blog about the psychology of fears:

A phobia is an increased fear of something. It could be some object, situation or action. Otherwise, a phobia can be called an obsessive fear. It is especially aggravated in a certain situation and defies any explanation. This condition greatly complicates a person’s life, causes some discomfort and changes the personality. Phobia (derived from the Greek “phobos,” which means “fear”) is a strong, persistent, obsessive fear. In certain situations that should not cause it, a person develops severe anxiety. This anxiety defies complete logical explanation. This is not the fear that a person experiences when something truly terrible happens (for example, they aim at him with a machine gun). The person understands that it is stupid to be afraid, but he cannot help himself.

Types of phobias - main list

Phobias are more common in impressionable, emotional people with a rich imagination. In this case, there is a term - psychological phobias. Such a person finds himself in one situation or another, and in his thoughts images appear, one more terrible than the other. He experiences these imaginary situations as if they were really happening. A person does not understand why he begins to be afraid of something. All phobias can be divided into the following groups:

Tell me, which people like to go to the dentist? Few. And patients with odontiaphobia show panic fear and dislike for this doctor. But this is one of the harmless fears of a dentist. What other phobias are there:

This is not a complete list of phobias that are encountered in a doctor’s practice. However, it gives us the opportunity to understand that obsessive fear can arise from any object or action.

Symptoms of a phobia

The main symptom is rejection or a desire to avoid the situation that actually causes the phobia. In addition, obsessive fear may have other signs. In such patients you can observe:

Tachycardia – rapid heartbeat. Patients often complain of a feeling that their heart is about to jump out of their chest.
Feeling of suffocation, lump in throat, unable to breathe.
Feeling of numbness, weakness, feeling of loss of consciousness, the body does not listen.
Intense fear and horror of the object that causes the phobia.
Trembling in the body.
Cold sticky sweat.
Stool upset, vomiting, abdominal pain.

Causes of the disease

There is no single reason that causes phobias. More often than not, all our fears begin in childhood. Phobias are caused by many negative things. experiences that a person experienced in childhood. With age, a lot goes by, and people don’t even remember it. But some fear comes with age. But all phobias arise after some situations that were unpleasant and brought painful experience. The psychology of a phobia is such that in a person’s subconscious there is a connection between what caused the fear and the emotions that the person experienced. There is an opinion that stress can provoke the development of phobias in a person to whom parents have inherited a tendency to develop phobias.

Sensitive and emotional people are more susceptible to phobias. People with a very rich imagination are also susceptible to this disease. After all, it is difficult for them to distinguish between imaginary and real danger. And it’s hard to resist the feeling of fear, because such patients are afraid of something that doesn’t really exist.

There are several theories about the development of the disease, although the causes of phobias are not fully understood.

Burdened heredity. One of the parents suffers from this disease, and it is passed on to the child.
A highly developed instinct of self-preservation - a person begins to experience fear even in situations where they do not pose any actual danger.
A person has experienced a stressful situation in the past (in childhood, throughout life).

Phobias in children

For children, phobias are common at each specific age. Almost 95% of children have some kind of fear. Sometimes this condition is considered normal for babies.

Up to 2 years – fear strangers, loud sounds, separation from mom.
Up to 6 years – fear of the dark, unfamiliar sounds, monsters.
Until the age of 12 - fear of getting a bad grade, getting sick, dying.

If such fears do not disrupt the normal course of the baby’s life, are not excessive, and do not affect health, then they will pass over time. Health care not needed here. Parents and their support will have a greater influence.

Treatment of phobias and fears

Phobias or fears occur quite often in our daily lives and cause some discomfort. For example, if a person is a teacher at school and suffers from some kind of social phobia, then working in the profession will be very difficult. Also, a person who has a fear of blood cannot work as a surgeon. But he will be able to work as a psychiatrist or psychologist whose work is not related to the type of blood. If the phobia does not affect daily life, then she won’t cause any trouble. Or a person tries to avoid situations that cause fear.

Phobias are cured very rarely on their own, spontaneously, in simple cases. In difficult cases, only a specialist can help get rid of them. Here, comprehensive treatment of phobia is necessary, it is carried out by psychotherapists. Diet and daily routine are important, drug therapy, psychotherapy, and physiotherapeutic methods of treatment are used.

The help of a psychiatrist is required in the treatment of phobias and fears in the following situations:

The patient avoids certain places and situations due to the disease.
Fear is unreasonable and excessive, causing anxiety and panic.
This condition causes significant discomfort and lasts more than six months.

The doctor diagnoses the phobia based on the examination and communication of the patient, differentiates it from other mental illnesses. Then he prescribes treatment. During psychotherapy, constant comprehension and experience of situations that cause a phobia are carried out. After psychotherapy, a person begins to understand why this condition actually occurs. Tranquilizers are usually prescribed as medications. They are especially effective in situations where It may arise and you need to survive it somehow. For example, when traveling by air.

How can you help yourself? There are several strategies that can be used:

Understand your condition, her possible reasons. And know that a phobia can be cured. Try questioning your fearful thoughts.
Various methods of relaxation, deep breathing are an antidote to anxiety, anxiety and fear. If used regularly, a person will eventually develop the ability to calm down quickly.

Are you afraid of the dark and sleep with the lights on? Looking for a long train ride over a high-speed plane ride? IN confined space Do you feel like you're in a bunker? Calm down! Your fears are not even close to the phobias that we will tell you about now.

Neophobia

This is the fear of doing something new. Surely everyone has encountered slight fear or apprehension, for example, when changing a job or place of residence, taking a responsible trip, or changing their usual life schedule. Usually people adapt to changing conditions quite quickly and easily. But neophobes succumb to crazy panic, and they definitely need support.

Scopophobia

Poor people with this fear feel extremely uncomfortable around people. No, they are not afraid of the crowd, their fear is caused by the fact that they may become the object of scrutiny or condemnation. By the way, this phobia can develop into a very serious mental disorder, such as paranoia. In addition, constantly expecting judgmental looks from the outside, people simply begin to move away and separate from society.

Phagophobia

This for the most part neurosis, which is caused by the fear of choking on food during a meal. Phagophobes are afraid to swallow, so they never take solid food - only liquid or soft food.

Nomophobia

How do you feel if you accidentally left your phone at home? Well, we were upset, lamented, and warned our relatives with a call from the office so as not to worry. This is a normal reaction. It’s not normal when a person is seized by real panic and rushes headlong to get his phone. And we are not talking about important calls or contracts. These are signs of nomophobia - the fear of being left without mobile communications! How easy life was for our ancestors a couple of hundred years ago – there was one less phobia!

Coulrophobia

Many people suffer from this phobia. And even celebrities sheepishly admit to being afraid of the painted clown's face. Johnny Depp publicly admitted that he is terribly afraid of clowns! And, by the way, coulrophobia is popular in the USA. Because it is in this country that the image of the clown has long acquired a certain sinister mystical appearance: terrible grimaces and painted mouths. To be honest, it's no laughing matter...

Trichophobia

For trichophobes, going to hairdressers, getting a haircut, and even banal combing of hair turns into real torture. Fear of hair implies disgust and psychosis at the sight of hairs on any surface - clothing, floor, table, etc. Apparently, the poor fellows comb their hair with their eyes closed, and only dream about domestic animals.

Caliginephobia or venustraphobia

Girls, pay attention! Now everything has fallen into place: there is fear beautiful women! Poor men suffering from this phobia, literally they lose their heads and are speechless at the sight of a breathtaking beauty.

Spectrophobia or Eisoprophobia

This phobia is inspired by fiction and superstition. Fear of mirrors manifests itself in the fact that a person is afraid to look in the mirror and see his reflection. This is usually caused by childhood fears - for example, a child has heard enough horror stories and tales, or played with mirrors with friends, causing all sorts of mythical evil spirits. All these childhood fears carry over into adulthood and cause a lot of trouble.

Ablutophobia

So to speak, a dirty phobia. Why dirty? Yes, because with ablutophobia a person is afraid of everything related to swimming and water. Roughly speaking, this is a fear of washing. And by the way, nothing funny! Refusal water procedures can lead to very serious consequences for the health of the body as a whole.

Chrometophobia

There are people who are afraid of money! But not the banknotes themselves, but microbes, of which there are enormous quantities on the banknotes. In principle, this is a justified fear, because imagine how many hands this unfortunate banknote goes through!

Altocalciphobia

Surprisingly, the fear of high heels is unique to women. The fear can be explained by potential injuries: the girl is simply afraid of breaking her ankle or falling down the stairs. You will not find Louboutins in the wardrobe of such girls. But some beauties are not afraid to walk (and even run) in high heels, even in icy conditions!

Triskaidekaphobia

Fear of the number 13, or simply the devil's dozen, is very common. And it is caused by the same superstitions. And God forbid a triskaidekaphobe get a ticket to row 13! Hysteria and panic are guaranteed.

Deipnophobia

Winnie the Pooh clearly did not suffer from this phobia, because he really loved visiting! But deipnophobes will always prefer to stay at home rather than have table conversations in an unfamiliar company.

Pediophobia

Fear of dolls is a rather serious phobia, and its cause also comes from childhood. Dolls and mannequins cause panic, and going to clothing stores and shopping becomes a real challenge.

Agyrophobia

People suffering from this phobia are afraid to cross wide roads and highways. Even at the permissive color of the traffic light! Therefore, for these people, the location of home, work, necessary shops and other establishments exclusively on one side is very important.

The concept of “phobia” has become firmly established in everyday life. modern man. Technological progress, individualization, stress - all this has an impact on society and creates new amazing fears among people. A persistent, irrational, uncontrollable fear that cannot be explained clearly is called a phobia. Some known phobias are a mental disorder, others are obsessive. Full list Not a single psychiatrist will name you phobias, because there can be as many phobias as there are people and situations.

Classification of fears occurs according to different criteria. For example, the first criterion is who is susceptible. In this case, the following stands out:

Children's.
Teenage.
Adults.

Each period of development is characterized by its own phobias, although both a child and an adult can have a huge number of them. Starts at puberty a large number of phobias classified as social. If you do not pay attention to this, they can remain with a person into adulthood. Great amount , intimacy, phobia of being ridiculed and other fears of evaluation begin in adolescence. Adults at a certain age begin to suffer from phobias related to responsibility and decision-making.

In addition to the age criterion, of course, there is also a gender criterion, however, many phobias are inherent in both sexes to one degree or another.

If we talk about serious fears that are considered mental disorders, then according to ICD-10, phobic anxiety disorders are marked with code F40 and are classified as follows:

agoraphobia (F40.0) is a fear of large crowds of people, and in advanced form it is a fear of going out into the street, going into a supermarket, or traveling in public transport unaccompanied;
social phobia (F40.1) – fear of society, outside views, interaction with people, public speaking, attracting attention.
isolated phobias (F40.2) are fears caused by strictly defined objects, situations or actions.
other phobic anxiety disorders (F40.3).

We list some types of phobias related to social ones:

Anthropophobia is the literal translation of “fear of man.” Its peculiarity is the diligent avoidance of contact with any person, not just strangers, and not just large numbers.
Peiraphobia – fear of the stage, public speaking. Experienced by the vast majority of people, most often it is not a mental disorder.
Gelotophobia is a form of social phobia, expressed in a pathological fear of ridicule. Fear is caused by irrational dependence on other people's opinions.

Additionally, we can identify some diseases that are also to some extent social, however, they have a connotation of discrimination, and in some cases can be elevated to the rank of a worldview.

gerontophobia - manifests itself in fear or hatred of interacting with old people. The causes of the phobia may be a complete lack of acceptance of one’s own aging.
ephebiphobia – similar feelings, only for teenagers. Hostility can be provoked by personal motives that a person does not even remember.
heterophobia/homophobia are controversial social terms that mean fear and non-acceptance of people with heterosexual (homosexual) orientation. Mental disorders is not.
xenophobia – hatred, fear, rejection of everything alien. Evolutionary anthropologists explain this by genetically based mechanisms. Xenophobia is the basis for chauvinistic ideologies.

Phobic disorders coded F40.2 include phobias of actions, situations, positions in space or a specific object. For example, zoophobia is a group of specific phobias, which includes a huge number of fears of specific species of animals or their classes. Here are some of them (below is a list of common and narrow names of phobias):

Specific phobias include discomfort associated with movement and being in a certain space. The most common is . The symptom is manifested by increased anxiety, even panic, when a person is in a confined space. Most often, this is an elevator cabin, but an attack of claustrophobia can happen in a subway car, or even in a dense crowd.

Another popular fear is acrophobia, the term has a meaning. An acrophobe experiences dizziness and overwhelming fear when climbing to heights.

Much less common, but occurring in practice, is the fear of walking up stairs, or climacophobia. Often found in combination with OCD.

Human phobias are often associated with natural phenomena:

scotophobia – fear of the dark;
brontophobia – fear of thunder;
astrophobia - fear of the stars, fear of looking at the starry sky;
anemophobia - phobia of storms, strong winds, storms.

A large number of phobias can be conditionally grouped under the category “health”. There are many fears of contracting a particular disease:

cancerophobia – fear of cancer;
phthisiophobia – fear of tuberculosis;
speedophobia – fear of catching HIV;
patroyophobia – fear of the occurrence of a hereditary disease;
Maniophobia – phobia of having a mental illness;
luophobia - fear of contracting syphilis.

It is worth mentioning some more phobias inherent in the younger generation. Atychiphobia is an irrational fear of failure, resulting in a person’s loss of motivation to achieve goals and refusal to compete. Another infantile fear is decidophobia - fear of making serious decisions, fear of taking responsibility. This is a very common occurrence.

IN modern society especially a resident of a metropolis often suffers from nomophobia - the fear of being left without a mobile phone or communication as such.

Strange human phobias, list with explanations

Before we give you a list of really recorded amazing human fears, look at the excerpt used in the television version of one of the performances of the Quartet I.

Of course, there is no fear of falling in love with four dead moving foreigners relieving themselves, but existing phobias often boggle the imagination.

papyrophobia – fear of paper;
borborigamiphobia - fear of rumbling in the stomach;
aibophobia – fear of palindromes (shifters);
kumpunophobia – fear of buttons;
hexakosioyhexekontahexaphobia - fear of the number 666;
ergophobia – fear of activity, doing work;
chrematophobia – fear of touching money;
hypnophobia – fear of falling asleep;
phagophobia – fear of swallowing;
dorophobia – phobia of giving and receiving gifts;
eichophobia – fear of speaking and hearing compliments and good wishes addressed to oneself;
doraphobia – fear of becoming covered in fur after touching the fur of an animal;
erytophobia, chlorophobia, xanthophobia, leukophobia, melanophobia, cyanophobia - phobias a certain color(in order: red, green, yellow, white, black, blue);
agmenophobia - the fear that in a supermarket or airport, the queue you are standing in will move slower than those next to you;
Gnosiophobia – fear of gaining knowledge;
acerophobia – fear of sour drinks and foods.

List of the most common phobias

The most popular types of phobias, which can be a mental disorder, are agoraphobia, claustrophobia, acrophobia, social phobia and zoophobia. And besides:

aquaphobia – swim, drown;
algophobia – fear of feeling pain;
apopatophobia – fear of visiting public toilets;
autophobia – ;
Aerophobia – phobia of flying on an airplane;
hematophobia – ;
cynophobia – fear of dogs;
necrophobia – fear of the dead, funeral and ritual symbols and paraphernalia;
paraskavedekatriaphobia - fear of Friday the 13th;
pyrophobia – fear of fire, fire;
radiophobia – fear of radiation;
thanatophobia – ;
taphophobia – phobia of being buried alive;
trypanophobia – fear of injections;
trypophobia – ;
erotophobia – or questions on intimate topics.

About the variety of human phobias, about the division of fears into types, about what symptoms a person with a phobia experiences in this video

conclusions

As you can see, the variety of phobias is simply amazing; everyone can find something to their liking. To some extent, this is what happens; a person experiencing internal torment decides for himself what it will be associated with: a reflection in a mirror, a mouse, or a nuclear explosion.

Today, scientists have developed basic classifications of phobias based on certain characteristics. Almost all attempts to systematize phobias published in literary sources are often focused on holistic content, without taking into account the nuances of their appearance, the specifics of development, manifestations, and so on.

The most popular and complete method is considered to be classification according to the plot of fear, division into certain groups that were formed on the basis of what frightens the individual.

Classification by type of fear

Psychiatric scientists have identified key groups based on the plot of fear. One of the categories is fear of space and movement in it. It can manifest itself in the forms:

Coitophobia is the fear of intimate intimacy.
Fear of not being able to experience orgasm.
Fear that sexual intercourse will not be successful.
Onanophobia (fear associated with the consequences of masturbation).
Fear of impotence.

Additionally, there is a category of obsessive-compulsive fears (fear of harming loved ones or oneself). This group includes:

Mysophobia (fear of pollution).
Fear of committing suicide.
Fear of harming the health of loved ones.
Fear of being injured by sharp objects.

What other classifications are there?

In addition to those described above, there are several other types of classifications. Thus, fears can be distinguished by the time of their occurrence. This is about:

Primary (for example, fear of riding trams).
Secondary phobia (in addition to trams they join vehicles by type of buses, trolleybuses, cars, and so on).

Anxiety-phobic disorders are characterized by dynamics - generalization, the dynamic addition of similar fears. At the moment when it is necessary to hospitalize a patient in a clinic, almost everyone has polyphobia or secondary fears.

You can also classify them according to the “direction of fears.” There are:

Phobias of “external stimulus”. The environment is the cause and object of anxiety.
Phobias of "internal stimulus". The object, the cause of anxiety, is the personality itself.

The classification according to the genesis of obsessive anxiety is considered extremely common. In this case, pathological fears are divided into:

"elementary".
"cryptogenic".

If we talk about the first type of anxiety, it appears after specific actions - super-strong stressors. The reason for this fear is quite obvious and understandable to every patient. For example, this category includes fear of dogs, which appears after the animal has bitten a person.

The second alarming variety appears without obvious external reasons. The patient does not understand and is not aware of the cause of the phobia. It has been repeatedly established that amnesia of mental trauma, due to which phobias appeared, is often observed during hysterical neurosis. A completely different picture is observed in the process of obsessive-compulsive neurosis: patients almost always remember events that caused mental trauma, but do not in any way connect these situations with the emerging fear.

Thanks to the classifications described above, patients will be able to understand exactly what phobias they have and why they appeared.

Common human phobias: complete list

ablutophobia - fear of swimming

hagiophobia - fear of holy places

agyrophobia - fear of crossing the street

agoraphobia - fear of open spaces

anemophobia - fear of being caught in a natural disaster

ailurophobia - fear of cats

Aichmophobia - fear of sharp objects

acarophobia - fear of getting scabies

acrophobia - fear of heights

alektorophobia - fear of hens and chicks

algophobia - fear of pain

amaxophobia - fear of driving vehicles

Ambulophobia - fear of walking

anginophobia - fear of angina attack

Anglophobia - fear of everything English

angrophobia - fear of anger

Fear of men

anthropophobia - fear of people

apiphobia - fear of bees

Fear of spiders

asymmetryphobia - fear of asymmetrical things

asthenophobia - fear of weakness

astrophobia - fear of stars and starry skies

atazagoraphobia - fear of being forgotten/unnoticed

Atelophobia - fear of not conforming to the norm

atychiphobia - fear of failure

Fear of loneliness

aulophobia - fear of the flute

aerophobia - fear of flying

bathophobia - fear of depth

batrachophobia - fear of frogs

bibliophobia - fear of books

botanophobia - fear of plants

brontophobia - fear of thunderstorms

Vaccinophobia - fear of vaccinations against infections

verminophobia - fear of germs

vestiphobia - fear of getting dressed

Wiccaphobia - fear of witches

virginityphobia - fear of rape

Gamophobia - fear of weddings

harpaxophobia - fear of being robbed

hedonophobia - fear of pleasure

heliophobia - fear of being in the sun

hemophobia - fear of the sight of blood

gerontophobia - fear/dislike of older people

herpetophobia - fear of reptiles

heterophobia - fear/dislike of people of the opposite sex

Gephyrophobia - fear of bridges

hydrophobia - fear of water

gynophobia - fear of women

Hylophobia - fear of the forest

Hypengiophobia - fear of responsibility

hypnophobia - fear of death in a dream

glossophobia - stage fright

Hodophobia - fear of travel

Fear/hate of gays

graphophobia - fear of writing

Deipnophobia - fear of talking while eating

demophobia - fear of crowds

Dentophobia - fear of the dentist

dendrophobia - fear of trees

decidophobia - fear of making decisions

Diabetophobia - fear of getting diabetes

didaskaleinophobia - fear of school

zelophobia - fear of jealousy

Zemmiphobia - fear of rats

zoophobia - fear of animals

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hierophobia - fear of church clergy

insectophobia - fear of insects

iophobia - fear of poisons/being poisoned

ichthyophobia - fear of fish

caliginephobia - fear of beautiful women

cancerophobia - fear of cancer

Cardiophobia - fear of death from heart disease

carnophobia - fear of meat

Fear of being ridiculed

cyberphobia - fear of computer technology

cynophobia - fear of dogs

Fear of enclosed spaces

kleptophobia - fear of stealing or being robbed

coitophobia - fear of sexual intercourse

copophobia - fear of overwork

coprophobia - fear of feces

Coulrophobia - fear of clowns

cryophobia - fear of cold

Fear of strangers

lilapsophobia - fear of hurricanes

Mageirocophobia - fear of cooking

Maleusiophobia - fear of giving birth

mastigophobia - fear of corporal punishment

megalophobia - fear of large objects

menophobia - fear/dislike of menstruation

mechanophobia - fear of cars

mysophobia - fear of pollution

mycophobia - fear of being poisoned by mushrooms

myrmecophobia - fear of ants

mnemophobia - fear of memories

mottephobia - fear of moths

musophobia - fear of infection

neophobia - fear of new things

necrophobia - fear of the dead

Fear of the dark.

nosocomephobia - fear of hospitals

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obesophobia - fear of getting fat

Ombrophobia - fear of getting caught in the rain

ornithophobia - fear of birds

ophidiophobia - fear of snakes

papyrophobia - fear of paper

paraphobia - fear of sexual perversion

parthenophobia - fear of virgins

pediophobia - fear of dolls

pedophobia - fear of children

peladophobia - fear of baldness

peniaphobia - fear of being poor/impoverished

plutophobia - fear of wealth

pnigophobia - fear of being strangled

pogonophobia - fear of beards

Pteronophobia - fear of bird feathers

radiophobia - fear of radiation

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selachophobia - fear of sharks

siderodromophobia - fear of railway transport

Scoleciphobia - fear of worms

Scotomaphobia - fear of blindness

scopophobia - fear of being ridiculed

sophophobia - fear of learning

social phobia - fear of social activities

Panic fear of contracting HIV infection

taphophobia - fear of funerals

thalassophobia - fear of the sea

teratophobia - fear of freaks

tomophobia - fear of surgery

trypophobia - fear of holes

trypanophobia - fear of needles

urophobia - fear of involuntary urination

phagophobia - fear of choking

pharmacophobia - fear of taking medications

philemaphobia - fear of kissing

philophobia - fear of falling in love

phonophobia - fear of loud sounds

Phronemophobia - fear of thinking

chemophobia - fear of chemical compounds

chionophobia - fear of snow

Chronometrophobia - fear of clocks

cyclophobia - fear of two-wheeled vehicles

Eisoptrophobia - fear of mirrors

ecophobia - fear of your own home

enissophobia - fear of criticism

eosophobia - fear of daylight hours

Fear of work

erythrophobia - fear of blushing

ephebiphobia - fear of youth

Iatrophobia - fear of doctors