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Phobias are irrational, paralysing fears of some really quite unexpected things:
* Agoraphobia – fear of open spaces
* Ailurophobia – fear of cats
* Aibophobia – fear of palindromes (try reading it backwards)
* Algophobia – fear of pain
* Anthrophobia – fear of people and human contact
* Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
* Arithmophobia – fear of numbers or arithmetic
* Astraphobia (a.k.a. * Brontophobia,* Keraunophobia, or * Tonitrophobia) – fear of thunder and lightning
* Bathysiderodromophobia: fear of undergrounds/subways/metros
* Belonephobia – fear of pins, needles etc.
* Claustrophobia – fear of enclosed spaces (also *Clithrophobia/Cleithrophobia)
* Cnidophobia – fear of stings
* Cyberphobia – fear of computers and technology
* Cynophobia – fear of dogs
* Demophobia – fear of crowds
* Didaskaleinophobia - fear of going to school
* Enochlophobia – fear of crowds
* Ergasiophobia – fear of work
* Erythrophobia or Ereuthrophobia - fear of blushing or the colour red
* Euphobia – pretty much the opposite of euphoria: the fear of good news
* Gymnophobia – fear of nudity (either your own or others’)
* Herpetophobia – fear of reptiles such as lizards and snakes
* Hippophobia – fear of horses
* Hodophobia – fear of road travel
* Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia - the fear of long words!
* Hydrophobia - fear of water (also rabies, because rabid animals won’t go near water)
* Iatrophobia – fear of doctors
* Nosophobia – fear of catching disease
* Nyctophobia – fear of the night or of darkness ( also * Achluophobia)
* Ophidiophobia – fear of snakes
* Paraskavedekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th
* Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts (N.B. not phantasmophobia, which would make more sense)
* Pteronophobia – fear of being tickled with feathers
* Spheksophobia – fear of wasps
* Tachophobia – fear of speed
* Taphephobia – fear of being buried alive
* Thalassophobia – fear of the sea
* Trypanophobia – fear of injections
If you want a complete list of phobias and their definitions (I got several of the above from there) go to http://phobialist.com/index.html