List of Phobias

List of Phobias

Phobias treated list in Poole, Bournemouth, Wimborne, Broadstone and Dorset using hypnotherapy and hypnosis.

A

Abuse: sexual – Contreltophobia
Accidents – Dystychiphobia
Air – Anemophobia
Air swallowing – Aerophobia
Airborne noxious substances – Aerophobia
Airsickness – Aeronausiphobia
Alcohol – Methyphobia or Potophobia
Alone, being – Autophobia or Monophobia
Alone, being or solitude – Isolophobia
Amnesia – Amnesiphobia
Anger – Cholerophobia
Angina – Anginophobia
Animals – Zoophobia
Animals, skins of or fur – Doraphobia
Animals, wild – Agrizoophobia
Ants – Myrmecophobia
Anything new – Neophobia
Asymmetrical things – Asymmetriphobia
Atomic Explosions – Atomosophobia
Automobile, being in a moving – Ochophobia
Automobiles- Motorphobia

B

Bacteria – Bacteriophobia
Bald people – Peladophobia
Bald, becoming – Phalacrophobia
Bathing – Ablutophobia
Beards – Pogonophobia
Beaten by a rod or instrument of punishment, or of being severely criticized – Rhabdophobia
Beautiful women – Caligynephobia
Beds or going to bed – Clinophobia
Bees – Apiphobia or Melissophobia
Bicycles – Cyclophobia
Birds – Ornithophobia
Black – Melanophobia
Blindness in a visual field – Scotomaphobia
Blood – Haemophobia, Haemaphobia or Haematophobia
Blushing or the color red – Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Body odours – Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Body, things to the left side of the body – Levophobia
Body, things to the right side of the body – Dextrophobia
Bogeyman or bogies – Bogyphobia
Bolsheviks – Bolshephobia
Books – Bibliophobia
Bound or tied up – Merinthophobia
Bowel movements: painful – Defecaloesiophobia
Brain disease – Meningitophobia
Bridges or of crossing them – Gephyrophobia
Buildings: being close to high buildings – Batophobia
Bullets – Ballistophobia
Bulls – Taurophobia
Bums or beggars – Hobophobia
Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons – Scelerophobia
Buried alive, being or cemeteries – Taphephobia or Taphophobia

C

Cancer – Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia
Car or vehicle, riding in – Amaxophobia
Cats – Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia
Celestial spaces – Astrophobia
Cemeteries – Coimetrophobia
Cemeteries or being buried alive – Taphephobia or Taphophobia
Ceremonies, religious – Teleophobia
Changes, making; moving – Tropophobia or Metathesiophobia
Chickens – Alektorophobia
Child, bearing a deformed; deformed people – Teratophobia
Childbirth – Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia
Children – Pedophobia
Chinese or Chinese culture – Sinophobia
Chins – Geniophobia
Choking or being smothered – Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Choking – Anginophobia
Cholera – Chorophobia
Church – Ecclesiophobia
Clocks – Chronomentrophobia
Clocks or time – Chronophobia
Clothing – Vestiphobia
Clouds – Nephophobia
Clowns – Coulrophobia
Coitus – Coitophobia
Cold or cold things – Frigophobia
Cold: extreme, ice or frost – Cryophobia
Cold – Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia
Colour purple – Porphyrophobia
Colour red or blushing – Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Colour yellow – Xanthophobia
Colour white – Leukophobia
Colours – Chromophobia or Chromatophobia
Comets – Cometophobia
Computers or working on computers – Cyberphobia
Confined spaces – Claustrophobia
Constipation – Coprastasophobia
Contamination, dirt or infection – Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Contamination with dirt or germs – Misophobia or Mysophobia
Cooking – Mageirocophobia
Corpses – Necrophobia
Cosmic Phenomenon – Kosmikophobia
Creepy, crawly things – Herpetophobia
Criticized severely, or beaten by rod or instrument of punishment – Rhabdophobia
Criticism – Enissophobia
Crosses or the crucifix – Staurophobia
Crossing streets – Agyrophobia or Dromophobia
Crowded public places like markets – Agoraphobia
Crowds or mobs – Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Ochlophobia
Crucifix, the or crosses – Staurophobia
Crystals or glass – Crystallohobia

D

Dampness, moisture or liquids – Hygrophobia
Dancing – Chorophobia
Dark or night – Nyctophobia
Dark place, being in – Lygophobia
Darkness – Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Scotophobia
Dawn or daylight – Eosophobia
Daylight or sunshine – Phengophobia
Death or dying – Thanatophobia
Death or dead things – Necrophobia
Decaying matter – Seplophobia
Decisions: making decisions – Decidophobia
Defeat – Kakorrhaphiophobia
Deformed people or bearing a deformed child – Teratophobia
Deformity or unattractive body image – Dysmorphophobia
Demons – Demonophobia or Daemonophobia
Dental surgery – Odontophobia
Dentists – Dentophobia
Dependence on others – Soteriophobia
Depth – Bathophobia
Diabetes – Diabetophobia
Dining or dinner conservations – Delpnophobia
Dirt, contamination or infection – Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Dirt or germs, being contaminated with – Misophobia or mysophobia
Dirt or filth – Rhypophobia or Rupophobia
Dirty, being dirty or personal filth – Automysophobia
Disease – Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Pathophobia
Disease and suffering – Panthophobia
Disease, a definite – Monopathophobia
Disease, brain – Meningitophobia
Disease: kidney – Albuminurophobia
Disease, rectal – Rectophobia
Dizziness or vertigo when looking down – Illyngophobia
Dizziness or whirlpools – Dinophobia
Doctor, going to the – Iatrophobia
Doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from official – Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Dogs or rabies – Cynophobia
Dolls – Pediophobia
Double vision – Diplophobia
Drafts – Aerophobia or Anemophobia
Dreams, wet – Oneirogmophobia
Dreams – Oneirophobia
Drinking – Dipsophobia
Drugs, new – Neopharmaphobia
Drugs or taking medicine – Pharmacophobia
Dryness- Xerophobia
Dust- Amathophobia or Koniophobia
Duty or responsibility, neglecting – Paralipophobia
Dying or death – Thanatophobia

E

Eating or swallowing – Phagophobia
Eating or food – Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Eating or swallowing or of being eaten – Phagophobia
Eight, the number – Octophobia
Electricity – Electrophobia
Englishness – Anglophobia
Erect penis – Medorthophobia
Erection, losing an – Medomalacuphobia
Everything – Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia
Eyes – Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia
Eyes, opening one’s – Optophobia

F

Fabrics, certain – Textophobia
Failure – Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia
Fainting – Asthenophobia
Fatigue – Kopophobia
Fearful situations: being preferred by a phobic – Counterphobia
Feathers or being tickled by feathers – Pteronophobia
Faecal matter, faeces – Coprophobia or Scatophobia
Female genitals – Kolpophobia
Female genitalia – Eurotophobia
Fever – Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Pyrexiophobia
Filth or dirt – Rhypophobia
Fire – Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia
Firearms – Hoplophobia
Fish – Ichthyophobia
Flogging or punishment – Mastigophobia
Floods – Antlophobia
Flowers – Anthrophobia or Anthophobia
Flutes – Aulophobia
Flying – Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Pteromerhanophobia
Fog – Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia
Food or eating – Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Food – Cibophobia
Foreigners or strangers – Xenophobia
Forests or wooden objects – Xylophobia
Forests – Hylophobia
Forests, dark wooded area, of at night – Nyctohylophobia
Forgetting or being forgotten – Athazagoraphobia
France or French culture – Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia
Freedom – Eleutherophobia
Friday the 13th – Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Frogs – Batrachophobia
Frost, ice or extreme cold – Cryophobia
Frost or ice – Pagophobia
Functioning or work: surgeon’s fear of operating – Ergasiophobia
Fur or skins of animals – Doraphobia

G

Gaiety – Cherophobia
Garlic – Alliumphobia
Genitals, particularly female – Kolpophobia
Genitalia, female – Eurotophobia
Germans or German culture – Germanophobia or Teutophobia
Germs or dirt, being contaminated with – Misophobia or mysophobia
Germs – Verminophobia
Ghosts or specters – Spectrophobia
Ghosts – Phasmophobia
Girls, young or virgins – Parthenophobia
Glass or crystals – Crystallophobia
Glass – Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia or Nelophobia
Gloomy place, being in – Lygophobia
God or gods – Zeusophobia
Gods or religion – Theophobia
Gold – Aurophobia
Good news, hearing good news – Euphobia
Gravity – Barophobia
Greek or Greek culture – Hellophobia
Greek terms – Hellenologophobia

H

Hair – Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia
Halloween – Samhainophobia
Handwriting – Graphophobia
Harmed by wicked persons; bad men or burglars – Scelerophobia
Heart – Cardiophobia
Heat – Thermophobia
Heaven – Ouranophobia or Uranophobia
Heights – Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia
Hell – Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia
Heredity – Patroiophobia
Holy things – Hagiophobia
Home – Ecophobia
Home surroundings or a house – Oikophobia
Home, returning – Nostophobia
Home surroundings – Eicophobia
Homosexuality or of becoming homosexual – Homophobia
Horses – Equinophobia or Hippophobia
Hospitals – Nosocomephobia
House or home surroundings – Oikophobia
Houses or being in a house – Domatophobia
Hurricanes and tornadoes – Lilapsophobia
Hypnotized, being or of sleep – Hypnophobia

I

Ice or frost – Pagophobia
Ice, frost or extreme cold – Cryophobia
Ideas – Ideophobia
Ignored, being – Athazagoraphobia
Imperfection – Atelophobia
Inability to stand – Basiphobia or Basophobia
Infection, contamination or dirt – Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia
Infinity – Apeirophobia
Injections – Trypanophobia
Injury – Traumatophobia
Insanity, dealing with – Lyssophobia
Insanity – Dementophobia or Maniaphobia
Insects – Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Insectophobia
Insects that eat wood – Isopterophobia
Insects that cause itching – Acarophobia
Itching – Acarophobia

J

Japanese or Japanese culture – Japanophobia
Jealousy – Zelophobia
Jews – Judeophobia
Joint immobility – Ankylophobia
Jumping from high and low places – Catapedaphobia
Justice – Dikephobia

K

Kidney disease – Albuminurophobia
Kissing – Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
Knees – Genuphobia
Knowledge – Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia

L

Lakes – Limnophobia
Large things – Megalophobia
Laughter – Geliophobia
Lawsuits – Liticaphobia
Learning – Sophophobia
Left-handed; objects at the left side of the body – Sinistrophobia
Leprosy – Leprophobia or Lepraphobia
Lice – Pediculophobia or Phthiriophobia
Light – Photophobia
Light flashes – Selaphobia
Lightning and thunder – Brontophobia or Karaunophobia
Lights, glaring – Photoaugliaphobia
Liquids, dampness or moisture – Hygrophobia
Locked in an enclosed place – Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Lockjaw or tetanus – Tetanophobia
Loneliness or of being oneself – Eremophobia or Eremiphobia
Looking up – Anablephobia or Anablepophobia
Loud noises – Ligyrophobia
Love, sexual love – Erotophobia
Love play – Malaxophobia or Sarmassophobia
Love, falling or being in – Philophobia

M

Machines – Mechanophobia
Mad, becoming – Lyssophobia
Many things – Polyphobia
Marriage – Gamophobia
Materialism – Hylephobia
Matter, decaying – Seplophobia
Meat – Carnophobia
Medicine, taking; or drugs – Pharmacophobia
Medicines, mercurial – Hydrargyophobia
Memories- Mnemophobia
Men, bad or burglars or being harmed by wicked persons – Scelerophobia
Men – Androphobia or Arrhenphobia or Hominophobia
Menstruation – Menophobia
Mercurial medicines – Hydrargyophobia
Metal – Metallophobia
Meteors – Meteorophobia
Mice – Musophobia, Murophobia or Suriphobia
Microbes – Bacillophobia or Microbiophobia
Mind – Psychophobia
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror – Eisoptrophobia
Mirrors – Catoptrophobia
Missles – Ballistophobia
Mobs or crowds – Demophobia, Enochlophobia or Ochlophobia
Moisture, dampness or liquids – Hygrophobia
Money – Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia
Moon – Selenophobia
Mother-in-law – Pentheraphobia
Moths – Mottephobia
Motion or movement – Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia
Moving or making changes – Tropophobia
Moving automobile or vehicle, being in – Ochophobia
Muscular incoordination (Ataxia) – Ataxiophobia
Mushrooms – Mycophobia
Music – Melophobia
Myths or stories or false statements – Mythophobia

N

Names or hearing a certain name – Onomatophobia
Names – Nomatophobia
Narrow things or places – Stenophobia
Narrowness – Anginophobia
Needles – Aichmophobia or Belonephobia
New, anything or novel – Kainophobia, Kainolophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Neophobia
Newness – Cainophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, or Cainotophobia
News: hearing good news – Euphobia
Night or dark – Nyctophobia
Night – Noctiphobia
Noise – Acousticophobia
Noises, loud – Ligyrophobia
Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones – Phonophobia
Northern lights – Auroraphobia
Nosebleeds – Epistaxiophobia
Novelty or anything new – Kainophobia or Kainolophobia
Novelty – Cainophobia or Cainotophobia
Nuclear weapons – Nucleomituphobia
Nudity – Gymnophobia or Nudophobia
Number 8 – Octophobia
Number 13 – Triskadekaphobia
Numbers – Arithmophobia or Numerophobia

O

Objects, small – Tapinophobia
Ocean or sea – Thalassophobia
Odor, personal – Bromidrosiphobia, Bromidrophobia, Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Odor, that one has a vile odor – Autodysomophobia
Odors or smells – Olfactophobia
Official doctrine, challeges to or radical deviation from – Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Old people – Gerontophobia
Old, growing – Gerascophobia or Gerontophobia
Open spaces – Agoraphobia
Open high places – Aeroacrophobia
Operation, surgical – Tomophobia
Opinions – Allodoxaphobia
Others, dependence on – Soteriophobia
Otters – Lutraphobia
Outer space – Spacephobia

P

Pain – Algiophobia, Ponophobia, Odynophobia or Odynephobia
Paper – Papyrophobia
Parasites – Parasitophobia
Parents-in-law – Soceraphobia
Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth – Arachibutyrophobia
Pellagra – Pellagrophobia
Penis, erect – Medorthophobia
Penis, esp erect – Phallophobia
Penis, erect: seeing, thinking about or having – Ithyphallophobia
Penis, losing an erection – Medomalacuphobia
People – Anthropophobia
People in general or society – Sociophobia
People, deformed or bearing a deformed child – Teratophobia
Philosophy – Philsosphobia
Phobias – Phobophobia
Phobic prefering fearful situations – Counterphobia
Pins and needles – Belonephobia
Pins – Enetophobia
Place: locked in an enclosed place – Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Place, being in a dark or gloomy – Lygophobia
Places, certain – Topophobia
Places, crowded public – Agora