Thread: Phobias

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia

Yeah...I have the fear of long words XD

Coulrophobia, Arachniphobia, and Trypophobia.

Trypophobia is a fear of holes, clusters, stuff like that.

Pharmacophobia.

Bridges or of crossing them- Gephyrophobia
Celestial spaces- Astrophobia
Firearms- Hoplophobia
Heights- Acrophobia
Ocean or sea- Thalassophobia
Speaking in public- Glossophobia
Weapons, nuclear- Nucleomituphobia

the fear of awful threads is not on that list.

[edit]sorry, troll.[/edit]

Anger- Angrophobia or Cholerophobia
*Buried alive*, being or cemeteries- Taphephobia or Taphophobia
Dolls- Pediophobia [only when I'm sleep deprived and paranoid lol]
Dirty, being dirty or personal filth- Automysophobia [only my hands and feet]
Failure- Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia [only regarding my spirituality and kids]
Forgetting or being forgotten- Athazagoraphobia
Places, crowded public- Agoraphobia
Spoiled Food- it's not listed

Accidents- Dystychiphobia
Anger- Angrophobia
Atomic Explosions- Atomosophobia
Bridges or of crossing them- Gephyrophobia
Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons- Scelerophobia
Buried alive, being or cemeteries- Taphephobia
Confined spaces- Claustrophobia
Darkness- Achluophobia
Demons- Demonophobia
Heights- Acrophobia
Pain- Algiophobia
Vaccination- Vaccinophobia
Weapons, nuclear- Nucleomituphobia

Anyways, if you have Oneirophobia and on this forums, you're are messed up.

Phobophobia

Originally Posted by Artelis

[edit]sorry, troll.[/edit]

I'm not a troll, I just don't spend as much time in SB as I used to. I'm more into Research and Extended Discussion.

Fear of mirrors, FTW! = Eisoptrophobia.

And all you people who would seriously define more than one thing as a "phobia" need to chill the fuck out.

Fear of mirrors for me too.

Also homophobia.

Oh yeah, I have Eisoptrophobia too, coupled with a mild case of Nyctophobia (the fear of night or darkness).

I hate mirrors in dark rooms (unlit, almost pitch black... scares the shit outta me, I always think that my reflection will look like some horrible, twisted monster-person if I look at it in the mirror too long... this has happened to me in dreams ).

Originally Posted by WakataDreamer

I hate mirrors in dark rooms (unlit, almost pitch black... scares the shit outta me, I always think that my reflection will look like some horrible, twisted monster-person if I look at it in the mirror too long... this has happened to me in dreams ).

UGGHHH, same. I blame all the scary movies/books/stories from my childhood. I think the one that started it was some crappy episode of Goosebumps or whatever, where a girl moved into a house, and one day in her room she found the words "help me" written all over the walls, but backwards. It turned out that there was a dead girl or something living inside her bedroom mirror. And the world in the mirror was just slightly different than the real world... Waaaahhh I dunno.

Scuse me, could someone tell me the name of a fear of having your reproductive organs (specifically for males) cut off? I have that phobia.

I also have... Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia, Lygophobia, and Nyctophobia. Those are all fancy words for fear of darkness.

That list is too long to go through..

Fear of mirrors, yes!

Edit - Oh almost forgot the most prominent one: claustrophobia

Yes...the fear of heights...

Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders.
Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in general.
Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- Fear of being seen or stared at.
Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
Spheksophobia- Fear of wasps.

When I was a kid, I had a fear of bones. Not on the list, googled and it says it's called Cartilogenophobia. I got over it and when I say to people I don't have a silly phobia they don't believe me.

Fear of bones would probably be labeled more accurately as Ossiphobia (if I remember my Greek and Latin roots correctly).

@Sandform: I have your first phobia (the one there was no name for) too.

@DarkComrade: Woah there... lotsa phobias!

EDIT: When I was younger I had misophobia/mysophobia (the fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs) but have since gotten over it, along with apiphobia/melissophobia (the fear of bees).

I really doubt any of you have a phobia, let alone 2 or 3 or 13.

Phobias are cippling. Phobias are clinically diagnosed. Phobias cause your life to be changed dramatically. You guys probably just are nervous or uncomfortable when it comes to these subjects.

Originally Posted by Abra

Pharmacophobia.

Wish I had this one. Wouldn't be an addict then.

Originally Posted by Elis D.

I really doubt any of you have a phobia, let alone 2 or 3 or 13.

Phobias are cippling. Phobias are clinically diagnosed. Phobias cause your life to be changed dramatically. You guys probably just are nervous or uncomfortable when it comes to these subjects.

Not true, my fear of holes is bad, it's more than being uncomfortable, just looking at a cluster of holes, or even hearing the word cluster, makes me cringe, makes me sick to my stomach, it's truely painful.

Atomic Explosions- Atomosophobia
Bees- Apiphobia or Melissophobia
Buildings: being close to high buildings- Batophobia
Bums or beggars- Hobophobia
Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons- Scelerophobia
Child, bearing a deformed; deformed people- Teratophobia
Choking- Anginophobia
Corpses- Necrophobia
Darkness- Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia
Death or dying- Thanatophobia
Firearms- Hoplophobia
Ghosts or specters- Spectrophobia
Heights- Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia
Hell- Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Hospitals- Nosocomephobia
Hurricanes and tornadoes- Lilapsophobia
Injections- Trypanophobia
Insanity, dealing with- Lyssophobia
Locked in an enclosed place- Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Needles- Aichmophobia or Belonephobia
Nuclear weapons- Nucleomituphobia
Pain- Algiophobia, Ponophobia, Odynophobia or Odynephobia
Phobias- Phobophobia
Satan- Satanophobia
Vomiting- Emetophobia

Originally Posted by Elis D.

I really doubt any of you have a phobia, let alone 2 or 3 or 13.

Phobias are cippling. Phobias are clinically diagnosed. Phobias cause your life to be changed dramatically. You guys probably just are nervous or uncomfortable when it comes to these subjects.

Yeah I agree with this. Even my mirror thing, maybe at the end of the day it's not really a phobia, more like... extreme paranoia?

Although if I were left alone in a dark room with mirrors surrounding me, I would go insane. I really, really would.