Phobia is a new trend in today's world. Every second person you meet today is suffering from one or the other phobia. But is it really so?
What is Phobia
Phobia is actually an extreme fear of something like a place, a situation or some kind of creature. Fear prevents a person from doing a particular thing.
Phobia is not a disease, it’s actually a mental disorder that causes the immense fear in a person.
When a person is suffering from any kind of phobia, he or she imagines the threat from that fear at a very great level than it would actually be in reality. Hopefully, phobias are diagnosable mental disorders.
Types of Phobia
There are various kinds of phobias, listed further in this article, that a person can suffer from. But before this, let’s read about the facts that indicate a person is suffering from a phobia.
Symptoms of Phobia
A person suffering from phobia cannot control his or her instant reaction towards the fear they are suffering from, despite knowing it.
He or she gets panic or feel intense anxiety as soon as they come across that fear.
They might do anything or everything to avoid this feeling of fear.
A person suffering from a phobia will feel sensations like sweating, abnormal breathing, dry mouth, trembling, accelerated heartbeat, nausea, hot flushes or chills, a choking sensation, chest pains or tightness, butterflies in the stomach, pins, and needles, confusion, and disorientation, dizziness or a headache more often.
Causes Of Phobia
Phobia usually begins during the childhood, teenage or early adulthood but in some cases, it starts after the age of 30 years as well.
Basically, a phobia is caused when a person experiences any frightening event at an immature age or it is transferred from the parent or household member who is suffering from this.
It is also caused by a stressful experience.
Treatment Of Phobia
As already mentioned above, a phobia is a diagnosable mental disorder. One needs proper treatment which includes medication and behavioral therapy.
Moreover, apart from these, a person needs love affection and special care from any person they know while suffering from a phobia.
Types Of Phobia
1) Acrophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of heights.
2) Didaskaleinophobia
The fear of going to school.
3) Kakorrhaphiophobia
An abnormal, persistent, irrational fear of failure.
4) Athazagoraphobia
The fear of forgetting or being forgotten/ignored.
5) Thantophobia
The fear of losing someone you love.
6) Keraunophobia
An abnormal fear of thunder and lightning.
7) Algophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of pain.
8) Cynophobia
The fear of dogs.
9) Arachnophobia
The fear of spiders. (It affects women four times more than men.)
10) Alektorophobia
The fear of chickens.
11) Ailurophobia
The fear of cats.
12) Apiphobia
The fear of bees.
13) Myrmecophobia
The fear of ants.
14) Lepidopterophobia
The fear of butterflies.
15) Ophidiophobia
The fear of snakes.
16) Katsaridaphobia
The fear of cockroaches.
17) Anatidaephobia
The fear of ducks.
18) Galeophobia
The fear of sharks.
19) Achievemephobia
The fear of success.
20) Nosophobia
An irrational fear of contracting a disease.
21) Gynophobia
The fear of women.
22) Erythrophobia
The fear of blushing.
23) Tokophobia
The fear of pregnancy.
24) Gerascophobia
The fear of getting old.
25) Latrophobia
The fear of doctors or hospitals.
26) Chronophobia
The fear of the future.
27) Bathophobia
The fear of depths.
28) Gephyrophobia
The fear of bridges.
29) Aquaphobia
The fear of water.
30) Pyrophobia
The fear of fire.
31) Hemophobia
The fear of blood.
32) Trypanophobia
The fear of needles.
33) Globophobia
The fear of balloons.
34) Glossophobia
The fear of public speaking.
35) Numberophobia
The fear of public numbers.
36) Samhainophobia
The fear of Halloween.
37) Enochlophobia
The fear of the crowd.
38) Androphobia
The fear of men.
39) Monophobia
The fear of being alone.
40) Theophobia
The fear of God.
41) Traumatophobia
The severe and irrational fear of injury or war.
42) Vehophobia
The fear of driving.
43) Chaetophobia
The fear of hairs.
44) Emetophobia
The fear of vomiting.
45) Kinemortophobia
The fear of zombies.
46) Cacomorphobia
The fear of fat people.
47) Telephonophobia
The fear of talking people on phone.
48) Somniphobia
The fear of sleep.
49) Coulrophobia
An extreme or irrational fear of clowns.
50) Technophobia
The fear of technology.
Phobias are not like simple fear sensation, it is more serious and hazardous if not taken seriously.
In an approximate fact by WHO in later 2018, more than 76.34% of the total world population is suffering from at least one kind of phobia, irrespective whether they know it or not.
It is recommended to get a checkup of your friends and families, and find out of anyone is having a Phobia. Getting rid of Phobias is much necessary.