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Phobia-mania: the weirdest phobias you've ever seen (and some that you may have [vanity] )
The Phobia List ^ | 7-17-03 | Millions of scared people everywhere

Posted on 07/17/2003 6:52:01 PM PDT by 4mycountry

Acrophobia, fear of heights? Normal. Claustrophobia, fear of confined spaces? Also mormal. Aviophobia, fear of flying? You bet. Crustyophobia, fear of Hillary? Oh yeah.

But what about.....

Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic.

Anthophobia- Fear of flowers.

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.

Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.

Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.

Coprastasophobia- Fear of constipation.

Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the body.

Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers

Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.

Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture.

Geniophobia- Fear of chins.

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long words.

Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.

Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the body.

Linonophobia- Fear of string.

Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.

Nomatophobia- Fear of names.

Pantophobia- Fear of everything.

Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.

Pentheraphobia- Fear of mother-in-law.

Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.

Politicophobia- Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.

Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.

Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.

Syngenesophobia- Fear of relatives.

Tapinophobia- Fear of being contagious.

Verbophobia- Fear of words.

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.


TOPICS: Miscellaneous
KEYWORDS: fear; phobia
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To: ShadowAce
Oh.....

yeah.....

that would be right.....


Weeeeel, I never saw the movie so it's not my fault, right? ^^;;
21 posted on 07/18/2003 5:20:17 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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To: 4mycountry
We had a whole clown pic thread going a couple months ago when some kid got stuck on a Ronald McDonald statue.
22 posted on 07/18/2003 5:23:34 AM PDT by New Horizon
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To: 4mycountry
< grin > Right. The Thing, though, is a fun, scary movie with no clowns in it.
23 posted on 07/18/2003 5:30:10 AM PDT by ShadowAce (Linux -- The Ultimate Windows Service Pack)
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To: 4mycountry
You forgot aibohphobia...the morbid fear of palindromes, and the only diagnosis which causes the syndrome it describes.

--Boris

24 posted on 07/18/2003 7:21:54 AM PDT by boris (The deadliest Weapon of Mass Destruction in History is a Leftist With a Word Processor)
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To: Dixielander
I have 3 pretty bad phobias.. one of lightening, of tornados, and of vomiting(that's the weird one)
25 posted on 07/18/2003 9:07:03 AM PDT by honeygrl
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To: honeygrl
Karaunophobia or Brontophobia- fear of lightning and thunder.

Lilapsophobia- fear of tornadoes.

Emetophobia- fear of vomiting. [also: Aeronausiphobia- vomiting secondary to airsickness.]

If you're going to be afraid, at least do it properly and know the names!

...Afraid of lightning, huh? Guess that means you won't become a Viking Kittie?
26 posted on 07/18/2003 11:14:42 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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To: 4mycountry
"...Afraid of lightning, huh? Guess that means you won't become a Viking Kittie? "

Virtual lightening doesn't bother me too much. ;) But if there is a storm outside I'm iffy about even going to the bathroom.. it's my nanny's fault. When I was little she told me a story about someone who died during a thunderstorm going potty because lightening hit the plumbing or somesuch. And you can forget getting me outside or near a window. I'm trying hard not to pass my fear on to my kids but if a storm gets too bad and hubby isn't home I'll have a panic attack. Sooooo if I know bad stuff is coming I try not to be home alone. If it creeps up on me and it's extremely bad weather, I will sometimes call hubby home from work. If there is a tornado warning, you'll find me either at my parents house in there storm shelter if I can get there before the storm gets here(5 minutes away) or in my bathtub. We live in north GA so we do occationally have some really bad storms.
27 posted on 07/18/2003 5:15:51 PM PDT by honeygrl
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To: honeygrl
I hear you loud and clear, hon.

When I was little, I had a ventriloquist dummy. It was OK at first, but after I while, I started getting creeped out. It kept smiling at me. And not the good kind of smile. The kind of smile you give to a rottweiler just before you konk it out with a rock. I became scared and barried it -- face down -- in the bottom of my closet. However, that only made me more scared because now (in my yound mind) it had reason to attack me. I actually had nightmares about it: It would come out of the closet and try to kill me, but I would force it back in and put it back in the closet, then try and hide in my bed, but it would come out of nowhere and try to rip the covers off and kill me again--and not once did that smile go away. What a nightmare. *whoo*

I understand the lightning. It's normal, too. Lots of people -- adult people -- are scared by lightning. Perfectly normal. My case is probably one of those that you don't see every day. Yet another reason why I am special. (to a shrink, yeah...)
28 posted on 07/18/2003 5:40:59 PM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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To: 4mycountry
Well, I have a fear of puking that's just as bad and very irrational. I have no idea where it even came from. It was horrifying when I had morning sickness with both kids so bad. Facing the fear that way did nothing to make it go away either. I'll still have a total breakdown if I think I'm going to puke. I even have some Rx anti-emetic meds I saved from my last pregnancy that I'll use to prevent throwing up if i think it might be a possibility. Atleast I don't ever have to worry about being bulemic! It did cause me to be anorexic though for a while when I was young. I've learned though to put the thought out of my mind for the most part but every so often it creeps back up. My worst fear scenario was puking while driving and it causing me to have an accident. My imagination gets the better of me sometimes.
29 posted on 07/18/2003 9:49:38 PM PDT by honeygrl
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To: honeygrl
Poor Honeygrl! Hear, let me help...

This is the Insta-fearaway magician! He will zap your fears away! Here you go:

Insta-fearaway magician, do your stuff!

Seriously though, I don't think it's all that irrational. I mean, there are lots of people scared of vomitting, I bet. Now, how may people do you know are afraid of, eh, objects to the right side of the body? Hmm?

See? You're not weird or irrational at all. :)

30 posted on 07/19/2003 5:42:40 AM PDT by 4mycountry (Over-achiever extraordinare!)
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