Phobia

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Phobophobia is the fear of having a phobia.

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Ombrophobia is the fear of rain, which can cause severe anxiety attacks.

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Gamophobia is the fear of getting married or being in a relationship.

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Mysophobia, or the excessive fear of germs and dirt, can lead people to engage in extreme cleaning, compulsive hand-washing, and even avoidance of things of situations perceived as dirty. In some instances, this phobia may be related to obsessive-compulsive disorder.

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Mageirocophobia is the fear of having to cook.

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Astraphobia is a fear of thunder and lightning. People with this phobia experience overwhelming feelings of fear when they encounter such weather-related phenomena.

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Ophidiophobia is the fear of snakes. This phobia is quite common and often attributed to evolutionary causes, personal experiences, or cultural influences.

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Nomophobia is the fear of being without your mobile phone or losing your signal.

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Caligynephobia is the fear of beautiful women.

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Trypanophobia is the fear of injections, a condition that can sometimes cause people to avoid medical treatments and doctors. Like many phobias, this fear often goes untreated because people avoid the triggering object and situation.

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Didaskaleinophobia is the fear of going to school.

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Social phobia involves the fear of social situations and can be quite debilitating. In many cases, these phobias can become so severe that people avoid events, places, and people who are likely to trigger an anxiety attack.

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Acrophobia fear can lead to anxiety attacks and avoidance of high places. People who suffer from this phobia may go to great lengths to avoid high places such as bridges, towers, or tall buildings.

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Xanthophobia is the fear of the colour yellow.

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Odontophobia is the fear of dentistry and of receiving dental care.

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Inability to understand sarcasm can be an early warning sign of a brain disease!

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Philophobia is the fear of falling in love.

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Athazagoraphobia: The fear of being forgotten and or ignored by someone whom you strongly care about.

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Alexander the Great, Napoleon, Mussolini and Hitler all suffered from ailurophobia, the fear of cats.

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Anatidaephobia is the weird fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you.

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A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes an individual to experience extreme, irrational fear about a situation, a living creature, place, or object.Phobias are diagnosable mental disorders.

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Cynophobia, or the fear of dogs, is often associated with specific personal experiences such as being bitten by a dog during childhood. Such events can be quite traumatic and can lead to fear responses that last well into adulthood.

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Arachnophobia is the fear of spiders and other arachnids. This phobia is quite common, affecting as many as 1 in 3 women and 1 in 4 men.

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Xenoglossophobia is the fear of foreign languages.

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Aerophobia, or the fear of flying, affects an estimated 8 million U.S. adults despite the fact that airplane accidents are very uncommon. Around 1 out of every 3 people has some level of fear of flying. Some of the common symptoms associated with this phobia include trembling, rapid heartbeat, and feeling disoriented.

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"Coulrophobia" is the fear of clowns. The word possibly originates from the Greek word kolon, meaning "stilt" or "stilt-walkers."

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