Lets Know About Phobia

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Aquaphobia

 

fear of water

Aquaphobia is a persistent and abnormal fear of water.

Aquaphobia is a specific phobia that involves a level of fear that is beyond the patient's control or that may interfere with daily life.

People suffer aquaphobia in many ways and may experience it even though they realize the water in an ocean, a river, or even a bathtub poses no imminent threat.

They may avoid such activities as boating and swimming, or they may avoid swimming in the deep ocean despite having mastered basic swimming skills.

This anxiety commonly extends to getting wet or splashed with water when it is unexpected, or being pushed or thrown into a body of water.

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Arachonophobia

fear of spiders

Arachnophobia or arachnephobia is a specific phobia, the fear of spiders and other arachnids such as scorpions.

The reactions of arachnophobics are often irrational (though not all arachnophobics acknowledge this irrationality).

It is one of the most common specific phobias,and some statistics show that 50% of women and 10% of men show symptoms.

It may be an exaggerated form of an instinctive response that helped early humans to survive,or a cultural phenomenon that is most common in predominantly European societies.

The fear of spiders can be treated by any of the general techniques suggested for specific phobias. As with all phobias, the strength of the associations means the individual must not actively pursue the consequences, and outsiders should not in any way undermine and "play" with the phobia in the meantime.

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Astraphobia

fear of thunder and lighting

Astraphobia, also known as astrapophobia, brontophobia, keraunophobia, or tonitrophobia, is an abnormal fear of thunder and lightning, a type of specific phobia.

It is a treatable phobia that both humans and animals can develop.

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Atychiphobia

fear of failure

Atychiphobia is the abnormal, unwarranted, and persistent fear of failure.

As with many phobias, atychiphobia often leads to a constricted lifestyle, and is particularly devastating for its effects on a person’s willingness to attempt certain activities.

A person afflicted with atychiphobia considers the possibility of failure so intense that they choose not to take the risk.

Oftentimes this person will subconsciously undermine their own efforts so that they no longer have to continue to try.

Because effort is proportionate to the achievement of personal goals and fulfillment, this unwillingness to try that arises from the perceived inequality between the possibilities of success and failure holds the atychiphobic back from a life of meaning and the realization of potential.

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Autophobia

fear of being alone

Autophobia is the specific phobia of isolation; a morbid fear of being egotistical, or a dread of being alone or isolated.

Sufferers need not be physically alone, but believe that they are being ignored, unloved, threatened by intruders, and so on.

Autophobia is also used in its literal context to mean an irrational fear of oneself.

It is sometimes associated with self-hatred.

Autophobia may be a symptom of other psychological disorders or it may predispose a person to developing other psychological disorders.

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Automatonophobia

fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being

Automatonophobia is the fear of anything that falsely represents a sentient being.

This includes, but is not limited to, ventriloquist dummies, animatronic creatures, and wax statues. This fear can manifest itself in numerous ways; every individual who suffers from the fear being different.

Similar to automatonophobia is pupaphobia which is the fear of puppets.

Since inanimate objects do not pose any real harm to people, this fear is considered to be irrational.

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Aerophoiba

fear of flying

Fear of flying is a fear of being on an airplane (aeroplane), or other flying vehicle, such as a helicopter, while in flight.

It is also sometimes referred to as aerophobia, aviatophobia, or aviophobia.

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Blood-injection-injury type phobia

fear of blood

According to the DSM-IV classification of mental disorders blood-injection-injury type phobias constitute a subtype of specific phobias.

It includes fear of blood (hemophobia), injury phobia and fear of receiving an injection (trypanophobia and some other names) or other invasive medical procedures.

A distinctive feature of phobias of this type is their vasovagal manifestation.

For most fears (both normal and abnormal) the response to the feared stimulus includes the accelerated heart rate.

In the cases of blood-injection-injury phobias a two-phase vasovagal response is observed: first a brief acceleration of heart rate, then its deceleration, bradycardia, and dropped blood pressure.

The above may also lead to vasovagal syncope (fainting).

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Chaetophobia

fear of hair

Chaetophobia is fear of hair.

Sufferers fear may be associated with human hair and / or animal hair.

They fear people / animals with an excess amount of hair.

They may also fear the hair on their own body.

Some only fear detached or loose hair and do not mind attached hair.

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Chemophobia

fear of chemicals

Chemophobia literally means "fear of chemicals".

It is most often used to describe the assumption that what the person calls "chemicals", usually meaning man-made products or artificially concentrated but naturally occurring chemicals, are bad and harmful, while what the person calls "natural" substances (i.e., chemicals that occur naturally or that are obtained using traditional techniques) are good and healthy.

General chemophobia derives from a public lack of trust, inadequate understanding of chemistry and science,and is a form of technophobia and fear of the unknown.

According to Sense About Science in Making Sense of Chemical Stories, "In terms of chemical safety, “industrial,” “synthetic,” “artificial,” and “man-made” do not necessarily mean damaging, and “natural” does not necessarily mean better."

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Chiroptophobia

fear of bats

Fear of bats, sometimes called chiroptophobia is a specific phobia associated with bats and to common negative stereotypes and fear of bats stemming from prejudices and misinformation.

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Chromophobia

fear of bright colours

Chromophobia comes from the Greek word "chroma", which translates as "colour", and "phobos", which translates to "fear".

The two form to create a portmanteau which it is assumed means "fear of colour".

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Chronophobia

fear of time and time moving forward

Chronophobia is described by Pamela Lee as the fear of time.

There are three categories of phobia including agoraphobia, social phobia, and specific phobias which includes spiders, snakes, dogs, water, and heights.

Rosemary Stolz states that chronophobia falls under the category of specific phobia because time is a specific object that one can fear.

Somewhere between 5.1% and 12.5% of Americans have experienced some sort of phobia.

Chronophobia is especially common in prison inmates and the elderly, but it can manifest in any person who has an extreme amounts of stress and anxiety in their life.

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Cibophobia

fear of bright colours

Cibophobia is an eating disorder characterized by immoderate food restriction and irrational fear of gaining weight, as well as a distorted body self-perception.

It typically involves excessive weight loss and is usually found more in females than in males.[1] Due to the fear of gaining weight, people with this disorder restrict the amount of food they consume.

This restriction of food intake causes metabolic and hormonal disorders.

Outside of medical literature, the terms anorexia nervosa and anorexia are often used interchangeably; however, anorexia is simply a medical term for lack of appetite, and people with cibophobia do not in fact, lose their appetites.

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Claustrophobia

fear of having no escape

Claustrophobia is the fear of having no escape and being closed in spaces or rooms irrespective of the room size.

It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder and often results in panic attack, and can be the result of many situations or stimuli, including elevators crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and even tight-necked clothing.

The onset of claustrophobia has been attributed to many factors, including a reduction in the size of the amygdala, classical conditioning, or a genetic predisposition to fear small spaces.