Lets Know About Phobia

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Phobophobia

fear of having a phobia or of fear

Phobophobia is a phobia defined as the fear of phobias, or the fear of fear, including intense anxiety and unrealistic and persistent fear of the somatic sensations and the feared phobia ensuing.

Phobophobia can also be defined as the fear of phobias or fear of developing a phobia.

Phobophobia is related to anxiety disorders and panic attacks directly linked to other types of phobias, such as agoraphobia.

When a patient has developed phobophobia, their condition must be diagnosed and treated as part of anxiety disorders.

This patient with this phobia is not afraid of this phobia thus preventing a paradox.

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Phonophobia

fear of loud sounds

Phonophobia also called ligyrophobia or sonophobia) is a fear of loud sounds.

It can also mean a fear of voices, or a fear of one's own voice.

For example, listening to a CD that starts with a minute of silence and then suddenly goes into loud rock music would be extremely startling for most people, assuming they had no prior knowledge of the content of the CD.

Being startled is in itself a normal reaction, but the key difference is that people with ligyrophobia actively fear such an occurrence.

Sonophobia can refer the hypersensitivity a patients to sound and can be part of a diagnosis of a migraine.

Ligyrophobics may be fearful of devices that can suddenly emit loud sounds, such as computer speakers or fire alarms.

When operating a home theater system, computer, television, CD player, etc., they may wish to have the volume turned down all the way before doing anything that would cause the speakers to emit sound, so that once the command to produce sound is given, the user can raise the volume of the speakers to a comfortable listening level.

They may avoid parades and carnivals due to the loud instruments such as drums.

Other ligyrophobics also steer clear of any events in which fireworks are to be let off.

Another example is watching someone blow up a balloon beyond its normal capacity.

This is often an unsettling, even disturbing thing for a person with ligyrophobia to observe, as he or she anticipates a loud sound when the balloon pops.

When balloons pop, two types of reactions are heavy breathing and panic attacks.

The sufferer becomes anxious to get away from the source of the loud sound.

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Pyrophobia

fear of fire

Pyrophobia is the debilitating fear of fire or flames.

The root word (pyro) means "fire." The suffix (phobia) means "fear of." Both words come from Greek. Not all fears are phobias, however. For example, if you are afraid of your house burning down, that is not an example of pyrophobia. However, if your fear of fire hinders your daily life, then that would be pyrophobia.

Another name for pyrophobia is arsonphobia.

So if someone says you're a pyrophobic or an arsonphobic, all they mean is you're scared of fire.

A person with pyrophobia is a pyrophobic.

A person with arsonphobia is an arsonphobic.

The opposite of pyrophobia is Pyromania.

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Radiophobia

fear of radioactivity or X-rays

Radiophobia is an abnormal fear of ionizing radiation, in particular, fear of X-rays.

The term is also used in a non-medical sense to refer to general opposition to the use of nuclear energy.

Fear of ionizing radiation is not unnatural, since it can pose significant risks; however this fear may become abnormal and even irrational, often owing to poor information or understanding, but also as a consequence of traumatic experience.

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Spectrophobia

fear of own reflection

Spectrophobia (from Latin: spectrum, "ghost") is a kind of specific phobia involving a morbid fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.

Catoptrophobia (from the word catoptric meaning using a mirror to focus light; from Greek word katoptrikos ) is the fear of mirrors.

This phobia is distinct from Eisoptrophobia, which is the fear of your own reflection.

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Taphophobia

fear of buried alive

Fear of being buried alive is the fear of being placed in a grave while still alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead.

The abnormal, psychopathological version of this fear is referred to as taphophobia (from Greek τάφος - taphos, "grave, tomb"[1] and φόβος - phobos, "fear"[2]), which is translated as "fear of graves".

Before the advent of modern medicine, the fear was not entirely irrational.

Throughout history, there have been numerous cases of people being buried alive by accident.

In 1905, the English reformer William Tebb collected accounts of premature burial.

He found 219 cases of near live burial, 149 actual live burials, 10 cases of live dissection and 2 cases of awakening while being embalmed.

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Technophobia

fear of techonology

Technophobia is the fear or dislike of advanced technology or complex devices, especially computers.

Although there are numerous interpretations of technophobia, they seem to become more complex as technology continues to evolve at such an unstoppable rate.

The term is generally used in the sense of an irrational fear, but others contend fears are justified. It is related to cyberphobia and is the opposite of technophilia.

Dr. Larry Rosen, research psychologist, computer educator, and professor at the California State University suggests that there are three dominant subcategories of technophobes- the "uncomfortable users", the "cognitive computerphobes", and "anxious computerphobes".

First receiving widespread notice during the Industrial Revolution, technophobia has been observed to affect various societies and communities throughout the world.

This has caused some groups to take stances against some modern technological developments in order to preserve their ideologies.

In some of these cases, the new technologies conflict with established beliefs, such as the personal values of simplicity and modest lifestyles.

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Telephone Phobia

fear of making or taking phone calls

Telephone phobia (telephonophobia, telephobia) is reluctance or fear of making or taking phone calls, literally, "fear of telephone".Telephone phobia is also considered to be a type of social phobia or social anxiety problem.It is often compared to the fear of public speaking, in that both require engaging with an audience to a certain extent, followed by the fear of being criticized,judged or made a fool of.

As is common with various fears and phobias, there is a wide spectrum of severity of the fear of phone conversations and the corresponding difficulties.

In 1993 it was reported that about 2.5 million people in Great Britain have telephone phobia.

The term Telephone Apprehension refers to a lower degree of telephone phobia, where it is the anxiety derived from telephones, but less severe than that of an actual phobia.

These people may have no problem communicating face to face, but have difficulty doing so over the telephone.

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Tetraphobia

fear of number four

Tetraphobia is a practice to avoid instances of the number 4.

It is a superstition most common in East Asian and Southeast Asian regions such as China, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Japan, Korea and Vietnam.

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Thalassophobia

fear of sea or ocean

Thalassophobia is an intense and persistent fear of the sea.

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

Symptoms for thalassophobia are the same as for most specific phobias.

Although it is a clinical phobia, it often accompanies other anxiety disorders.

In some cases anxiolytic medications may be prescribed or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy (CBT) may be indicated.

Although many people are nervous when on a ship, this phobia is not one of the most common. People with Thalassophobia fear being in the ocean.

A common case of fear of the ocean is sometimes triggered by fearing the sight of a large sea creature underwater.

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Thermophobia

fear of heat

Thermophobia is intolerance for high temperatures by either inorganic materials or organisms.The term has a number of specific usages.

In pharmacy, a thermophobic foam consisting of 0.1% betamethasone valerate was found to be at least as effective as conventional remedies for treating dandruff. In addition, the foam is non-greasy and does not irritate the scalp.

Another use of thermophobic material is in treating hyperhydrosis of the axilla and the palm: A thermophobic foam named Bettamousse developed by Mipharm, an Italian company, was found to treat hyperhydrosis effectively.

In biology, some bacteria are thermophobic, such as mycobacterium leprae which causes leprosy. Thermophobic response in living organisms is negative response to higher temperatures.

In physics, thermophobia is motion of particles in mixtures (solutions, suspensions, etc.) towards the areas of lower temperatures, a particular case of thermophoresis.

In medicine, thermophobia is a specific phobia, abnormal fear of heat and hot places.[citation needed] In addition it may refer to a sensory dysfunction, sensation of abnormal heat, which may be associated with, e.g., hyperthyroidism.

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Tokophobia

fear of childbirth or pregnancy

Tokophobia, otherwise known as 'Enfantaphobia' or fear of childbirth or pregnancy, is a form of specific phobia.

Other terms for the condition include tocophobia and parturiphobia.

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Trypanophobia

fear of needles or injections

Fear of needles, also known as needle phobia (and rarely as trypanophobia), is the extreme fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.

It is occasionally referred to as aichmophobia, belonephobia, or enetophobia, although these terms may also refer to a more general fear of sharply pointed objects.

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Trypophobia

fear of holes

The term trypophobia was coined in 2005, a combination of the Greek trypo (punching, drilling or boring holes) and phobia.

It is not recognized in the American Psychiatric Association's Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders.

Thousands of people claim to be fearful of objects with small holes, such as beehives, ant holes, and lotus seed heads.

Research is limited and Arnold Wilkins and Geoff Cole, who claim to be the first to scientifically investigate, believe the reaction to be based on a biological revulsion, rather than a learned cultural fear.

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Uranophobia

fear of heaven

Fear of heaven, also known by its Greek-derived name uranophobia or ouranophobia, is a phobia that makes its sufferer fear heaven.

The causes of Uranophobia is derived from external events such as traumatic events, and also internal susceptibility such as hereditary or genetics.

It is caused from more complex reasons that are not completely known as of now other than the combination of brain chemistry and life experiences.