Lets Know About Phobia

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Coulrophobia

fear of Clowns

Coulrophobia is a fear of clowns.

The term is of recent origin, probably dating from the 1980s,and according to one analyst, "has been coined more on the Internet than in printed form because it does not appear in any previously published, psychiatric, unabridged, or abridged dictionary."

However, the author later notes, "regardless of its less-than-verifiable etymology, coulrophobia exists in several lists."

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Cyberphobia

fear of or aversion to computers / Learning new technologies

Cyberphobia is an irrational fear of or aversion to computers, specifically, the fear and/or inability to learn new technologies.

It is classified as a specific phobia and is a term introduced in 1985 to refer to a sense of anxiety of aversion created by technology.

Some forms of cyberphobia may range from the more passive forms of technophobia of those who are indifferent toward cyberspace to the responses of those who see digital technology as a medium of intrusive surveillance; more extreme responses may involve anti-technological paranoia expressed by social movements that radically oppose ‘technological society’ and ‘the New World Order’.

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Decidophobia

fear of making decisions

Decidophobia is the fear of making decisions.

The word decidophobia was first mentioned by Princeton University philosopher Walter Kaufmann in his 1973 book Without guilt and justice in which he writes about the phobia in length.

In Without Guilt and Justice, Kaufman describes people with decidophobia as people who lack the courage or will to sort through the different sides in disagreements to find the truth.

They would rather leave the deciding of what is the truth to some authority.

This might be a parent or spouse. It might be a church or university or a political party.

Once the decidophobe has relinquished authority to decide the truth then they will accept as truth anything argued by that authority.

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Dentophobia

fear of dentist and dental procedures

Dental fear refers to the fear of dentistry and of receiving dental care.

A severe form of this fear (specific phobia) is variously called dental phobia, odontophobia, dentophobia, dentist phobia, or dental anxiety.

However, it has been suggested not to use the term "dental phobia" for people who do not feel their fears to be excessive or unreasonable and resemble individuals with post-traumatic stress disorder, caused by previous traumatic dental experiences.

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Disposophobia

fear of getting rid of or losing things

Disposophobia is fear of getting rid of or losing things – sometimes wrongly defined as "compulsive hoarding"

Compulsive hoarding is a pattern of behavior that is characterized by the excessive acquisition of and inability or unwillingness to discard large quantities of objects that cover the living areas of the home and cause significant distress or impairment.

Compulsive hoarding behavior has been associated with health risks, impaired functioning, economic burden, and adverse effects on friends and family members.

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Dysmorphophobia

fear of body disorder

Body dysmorphic disorder is a type of mental illness, a somatoform disorder, wherein the affected person is concerned with body image, manifested as excessive concern about and preoccupation with a perceived defect of their physical features.

The person thinks they have a defect in either one feature or several features of their body, which causes psychological distress that causes clinically significant distress or impairs occupational or social functioning.

Often BDD co-occurs with emotional depression and anxiety, social withdrawal or social isolation.

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Emetophobia

fear of vomiting

Emetophobia is an intense, irrational fear or anxiety pertaining to vomiting.

This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the action of vomiting or fear of being nauseated.

Emetophobia is clinically considered an “elusive predicament” because limited research has been done pertaining to it.

The fear of vomiting receives little attention compared with other irrational fears.

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Ergophobia

fear of work

Ergophobia, is an abnormal and persistent fear (or phobia) of work (manual labor, non-manual labour, etc) or finding employment.

Ergophobia may also be a subset of either social phobia or performance anxiety.

Sufferers of ergophobia experience undue anxiety about the workplace environment even though they realize their fear is irrational.

Their fear may actually be a combination of fears, such as fear of failing at assigned tasks, speaking before groups at work (both of which are types of performance anxiety), socializing with co-workers (a type of social phobia), and other fears of emotional, psychological and/or physiological injuries.

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Erythrophobia

fear of blushing

Erythrophobia is the fear of blushing.

Blushing refers to the involuntary reddening of a person's face due to embarrassment or emotional stress, though it has been known to come from being lovestruck, or from some kind of romantic stimulation.

It is thought that blushing is the result of an overactive sympathetic nervous system.

Severe blushing is common in people who suffer social anxiety in which the person experiences extreme and persistent anxiety in social and performance situations.

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Friggatriskaidekaphobia

fear of friday the 13th

It is also called as paraskavedekatriaphobia, paraskevidekatriaphobia.

Friday the 13th is considered an unlucky day in Western superstition.

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Frigophobia

fear of becoming too cold

Frigophobia is a phobia pertaining to the fear of becoming too cold.

Sufferers of this problem bundle up in heavy clothes and blankets, regardless of the ambient air temperature.

This disorder has been linked to other psychological disorders such as hypochondriasis and obsessive-compulsive disorder.

In a 1975 study among ethnic Chinese in Taiwan, it was noted that frigophobia may be culturally linked to koro.

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Gamophobia

fear of marriage

Gamophobia is the fear of marriage or commitment.

Its seen mostly in youngsters

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Gelotophobia

fear of being laughed at

Gelotophobia is a term meaning "fear", to describe people who have a fear of being laughed at.

While most people do not like being laughed at, there is a sub-group of people that exceedingly fear being laughed at.

Without obvious reasons, they relate laughter they hear, such as in a restaurant, to themselves and are uneasy.

Since 2008, this phenomenon has attracted attention from scholars in psychology, sociology, psychiatry, and has been studied intensively.

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Gephyrophobia

fear of bridges

Gephyrophobia is an anxiety disorder brought about by the fear of bridges.

As a result, sufferers of gephyrophobia may avoid routes that will take them over bridges.

Dr. Michael Liebowitz, founder of the Anxiety Disorders Clinic at the New York State Psychiatric Institute, says, "It's not an isolated phobia, but usually part of a larger constellation ... It's people who get panic attacks.

You get light-headed, dizzy; your heart races. You become afraid that you'll feel trapped."

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Gerascophobia

fear of growing old

Gerascophobia is an abnormal or persistent fear of growing old or ageing.

Gerascophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger.

Some authors also refer to it as "gerontophobia", while others prefer to distinguish the fear or dislike of old age in general from the fear of one's own ageing.

Gerascophobia is based on anxieties of being left alone, without resources and incapable of caring for oneself.

Sufferers may be young and healthy.

Symptoms include losing their appearance when they grow old, fearing the future, and fear of needing to rely on others to do daily functions.

Many also fear they will not play an active role in society when they get older.