Psychological Facts (hiatus)

Phobias 1-10

1. Arachnophobia - The fear of spiders. affects women four times more (48% women and 12% men).

2.Ophidiophobia - The fear of snakes. Phobics avoid certain cities because they have more snakes.

3. Acrophobia - The fear of heights. Five percent of the general population suffer from this phobia.

4. Agoraphobia - The fear of open or crowded spaces. People with this fear often wont leave home.

5. Cynophobia - The fear of dogs. This includes everything from small Poodles to large Great Danes.

6. Astraphobia - The fear of thunder/lightning AKA Brontophobia, Tonitrophobia, Ceraunophobia.

7. Claustrophobia - The fear of snall spaces. like elevators, small rooms and other enclosed spaces.

8. Mysophobia - The fear of germs. It is also rightly termed as Germophobia or Bacterophobia.

9. Aerophobia - The fear of flying. 25 million Americans share a fear of flying.

10. Trypophobia - The fear of holes is an unusual but pretty common phobia.

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