Anxiety Warriors!

Phobias

"It is important to overcome your fears because fears prevent you from living life. When you overcome your fears, it will enable you to do whatever you set your mind to." - Ashley Griffith

Are there any phobias that cause you stress/anxiety/fear/worry? If so, what are they?

EXAMPLES

Fear of needles (trypanophobia or aichmophobia)

Fear of dentists (dentophobia)

Fear of death (thanatophobia; also known as death anxiety)

Fear of lightning (astraphobia, astrapophobia, brontophobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia)

Fear of mushrooms (mycophobia)

Fear of crowds (enochlophobia, ochlophobia, or demophobia)

Fear of elevators (possibly a subtype of claustrophobia or a variation of agoraphobia)

Fear of aardvarks

Fear of airplanes (aviophobia)

Fear of animal exhaust (possibly a type of zoophobia)

Fear of ants (myrmecophobia)

Fear of babies

Fear of balls of yarn

Fear of bedcover (possibly a subtype of claustrophobia or clinophobia)

Fear of bees (melissophobia or apiphobia)

Fear of bees in blenders

Fear of being shot (ballistophobia)

Fear of birds (ornithophobia)

Fear of bird droppings

Fear of births (tokophobia)

Fear of blankets (possibly a subtype of claustrophobia)

Fear of blenders (possibly a subtype of mechanophobia; also unofficially (comedically) referred to as "blenderphobia")

Fear of boats (naviphobia)

Fear of bridges (gephyrophobia)

Fear of bullies

Fear of buses (trochophobia)

Fear of cannibals

Fear of cats (ailurophobia, felinophobia, or elurophobia)

Fear of caves (possibly a subtype of claustrophobia or cleithrophobia)

Fear of chalk (calxophobia)

Fear of change (metathesiophobia)

Fear of charcoal

Fear of Chia Pets

Fear of clouds (nephophobia)

Fear of clowns (coulrophobia)

Fear of cocoons

Fear of coloring books

Fear of coughing (tussaphobia, or pertussphobia)

Fear of crooked paintings

Fear of curly hair

Fear of darkness (scotophobia or lygophobia)

Fear of decaffeinated coffee

Fear of deserts

Fear of diapers