Funny Phobias Most of the people in the world have a fear of one kind or another.

While most people suffer from pathophobia (fear of disease), monophobia (fear of being alone), glossophobia (fear of public speaking), algophobia (fear of pain), taphephobia (fear of being buried alive), and many more, there are also some less popular phobias. t the end of this essay, ! have compiled a list of the phobias that ! find amusing. "here are many people in the world that suffer from polyphobia, which simply means to have more than one fear. #ot so common, people may suffer from antinomial phobias. For e$ample, there are some people that live with vestiophobia (fear of clothes) and gymnophobia (fear of nudity). nother e$ample is people with achluophobia (fear of darkness) and photophobia (fear of light). Watch out guys, within the ne$t seven years, you will probably get married and you will suffer from pentheraphobia, which is one of the scariest phobias in e$istence, the fear of your mother%in%law& #ot all phobias have been in e$istence for thousands of years. !'m sure that brontophobia (fear of thunder and lightning), febriphobia (fear of fever), and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) have e$isted since the (lack ges. )ome of the phobias that have formed in the last two centuries would be electrophobia (fear of electricity), motorphobia (fear of automobiles), and aviophobia (fear of flying). !n *+,-, a brand new phobia was .uickly created and escalated drastically in the *+-/'s. !t is called nucleomituphobia, which is the fear or nuclear weapons. (ut that's not the newest phobia in e$istence as of today. "his threat is called cyberphobia (fear of computers). !n mild cases, people may be afraid to use a computer or an "M. !n today's society, technology is deeply integrated. 0omputers are used in calculators, cars, microwaves, power tools, and many more. )o to the cyberphobic, ! say, 12et over it, or go to the e$treme and move away from the city, abandon your car, hand build your home, hand pump your water, build your fires, and hunt for your own food&3 !f you have a phobia, there is still hope for you. Phobias can be cured. 4emember when you were a child and suffered from clinophobia (fear of going to bed) because of bogyphobia (fear of the bogeyman), achluophobia (fear of darkness), and lachanophobia (fear of vegetables). #ow chances are good that you go to bed without checking your closet or looking under your bed, that you don't go ballistic if the lights go out, and that you eat a salad every so often. Phobias can deeply impact a person's life. person with chronophobia (fear of time) probably won't make it to their */5// M dentist appointment on time. person with chaetophobia (fear of hair) is most likely bald, has no eyelashes, no eyebrows, etc. person with cibophobia (fear of food) usually hasn't eaten in weeks and could easily be anore$ic. "his proves how serious and destructive phobias can be. !f you do suffer from any strange phobias, ! would suggest calling one%eight%hundred%phobias, for arithmophobics (people who fear numbers) or for logophobics (people who fear words). #ow on a more serious note, in all the years !'ve lived and all the knowledge !'ve ac.uired, ! can only find one, yes one, valid fear.

"his fear is called 6eusophobia, which is the fear of 2od. !n 7eaven, the false phobias are destroyed, but in 7ell they can be amplified. ! still find it hilarious, though, that these phobias e$ist, especially since someone must have e$perienced these fears so they could be valid phobias. )o if you e$perience arachibutyrophobia, you're probably one in a million, but you're still out there. some fears may be listed more than once blutophobia% Fear of washing or bathing erophobia% Fear of swallowing air mbulophobia% Fear of walking nablephobia% Fear of looking up nemophobia% Fear of wind nthrophobia% Fear of flowers rachibutyrophobia% Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. rithmophobia% Fear of numbers ulophobia% Fear of flutes uroraphobia% Fear of #orthern 8ights ( (arophobia% Fear of gravity (asophobia% Fear of walking (atophobia% Fear of being close to high buildings (ibliophobia% Fear of books (lennophobia% Fear of slime (ogyphobia% Fear of the bogeyman 0 0athisophobia% Fear of sitting 0atoptrophobia% Fear of mirrors 0haetophobia% Fear of hair 0hionophobia% Fear of snow 0hromatophobia% Fear of colors 0hronophobia% Fear of time 0hronomentrophobia% Fear of clocks 0ibophobia% Fear of food 0linophobia% Fear of going to bed 0nidophobia% Fear of string 9 9eciophobia% Fear of making decisions 9endrophobia% Fear of trees 9e$trophobia% Fear of ob:ects at the right side of the body 9idaskaleinophobia% Fear of school ; ;isoptrophobia% Fear of mirrors ;leutherophobia% Fear of freedom ;osophobia% Fear of daylight ;pistemophobia% Fear of knowledge ;rgophobia% Fear of work ;reuthophobia% Fear of the color red 2 2eliophobia% Fear of laughter 2eniophobia% Fear of chins 2enuphobia% Fear of knees

2eumaphobia% Fear of taste 2nosiophobia% Fear of knowledge 2raphophobia% Fear of writing 7 7eliophobia% Fear of the sun 7elmintophobia% Fear of being infested with worms 7emophobia% Fear of blood 7ippopotomonstroses.uippedaliophobia% Fear of long words 7omichlophobia% Fear of fog 7ypnophobia% Fear of sleep ! !chthyophobia% Fear of fish !deophobia% Fear of ideas < <ainophobia% Fear of anything new <athisophobia% Fear of sitting down 8 8achanophobia% Fear of vegetables 8eukophobia% Fear of the color white 8evophobia% Fear of ob:ects to the left side of the body 8inonophobia% Fear of string 8ogophobia% Fear of words M Melanophobia% Fear of the color black Melophobia% Fear of music Metrophobia% Fear of poetry Mnemophobia% Fear of memories Mottephobia% Fear of moths # #ebulaphobia% Fear of fog #eophobia% Fear of anything new #ephophobia% Fear of clouds #omatophobia% Fear of names = =ctophobia% Fear of the number > =mmetaphobia% Fear of eyes =neirophobia% Fear of dreams =phthalmophobia% Fear of opening one's eyes =straconophobia% Fear of shellfish P Panophobia% Fear of everything Papyrophobia% Fear of paper Paraskavedekatriaphobia% Fear of Friday the *?th Peladophobia% Fear of bald people Phengophobia% Fear of daylight Phobophobia% Fear of fear Photophobia% Fear of light Phronemophobia% Fear of thinking Pogonophobia% Fear of beards ) )ciophobia% Fear of shadows )colionophobia% Fear of school )elenophobia% Fear of the moon )iderophobia% Fear of stars )itophobia% Fear of food )ophophobia% Fear of learning )tasibasiphobia% Fear of walking

" "haasophobia% Fear of sitting "richopathophobia% Fear of hair "riskadekaphobia% Fear of the number *? @ @erbophobia% Fear of words A Aanthophobia% Fear of the color yellow