Phobias

[A face]

Paraskavedekatriaphobia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraskavedekatriaphobia)
Coulrophobia (http://www.coulrophobia.com/)
Oneirogmophobia (http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/oneirogmophobia)
Medomalacuphobia (http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/Medomalacuphobia)
Pentheraphobia (http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/pentheraphobia.html)
Allodoxaphobia (http://www.phobia-fear-release.com/allodoxaphobia.html)
Syngenesophobia (http://www.sex-lexis.com/Sex-Dictionary/Syngenesophobia)
Macrophobia (http://www.answers.com/topic/macrophobia)

Anymore ?? :)

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia).... brilliant !! :p

[the 12 th man]

hydrophobia (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hydrophobia)
agrophobia (http://www.moving-minds.org/panic.htm)

[Conor H]

Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Coulrophobia
Oneirogmophobia
Medomalacuphobia
Pentheraphobia
Allodoxaphobia
Syngenesophobia
Macrophobia

Anymore ?? :)


A Face you couldn't tell us what half of them mean could you....i know some but i have never seen some of those words before!:o

[Schumi]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phobia

[paul_oshea]

aracknaphobia.
acrophobia.

anacondaphobia - a fear of anacondas.

Xenophobia

when i was younger i used to think that was a fear of jews, no messing. dont know why though, thought it sounded like zion maybe?!?!?!

[Gerrit]

Well, all looks funny until you got one. I had to cope with several phoebias in my life, Aphenphosmphobia amongst others. This list is also far from complete.

Who thought of those names anyway had a phoebia of simple short words :eek:

[Dodge]

So who's going to be first fior telling us what they have a fear of? unless that's A face's list?

[Gerrit]

Well, I named Aphenphosmphobia already, it doesn't dominate my life however and has decreased a lot luckily, but still.

And I have a mild vertigo, which is a nicer term than whatever Wikipedia uses for fear of heighths.

[Dodge]

I've a fear of clowns. (and people with face paint etc) Doesn't really affect my life or anything. For more infor click here (http://www.ihateclowns.com)

[A face]

So who's going to be first fior telling us what they have a fear of? unless that's A face's list?

That is only the half of it !! :p

[Peadar]

I've a fear of clowns.

I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

[dfx-]

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia (http://en.wiktionary.org/wiki/hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia).... brilliant !! :p

That is by far and away the best.:cool: I still remember it as one of the few things I listened to from my English Leaving Cert teacher and as if it was only four years ago.....

[Spudd]

I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

Im not too fond of clowns myself,i just cant see why people like um!
i think mine stems back to the film ''IT'',i remember they did it as a two part series on sky when i was a kid,i remember sneaking down to watch it and scared ****less going to bed..had to watch it tho and brag about it in school the next day!
Thats deffinately why i have a dislike for clowns!

i also cant drink milk out of an open container...dunno why that is tho,its kinda wierd!:o

[A face]

I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?

Beep beep !! (http://www.allmovie.com/cg/avg.dll?p=avg&sql=35:2968) :D

[Dodge]

I can't believe the amount of people who have told me they've got a fear of clowns. Does it stem from a bad experience at the circus when you were young or something?
Not for me. Apparently its because we can't get a read on people. If you don't know someone's emotions, you don't know how to react to them, that sort of thing

[A face]

Not for me. Apparently its because we can't get a read on people. If you don't know someone's emotions, you don't know how to react to them, that sort of thing

I can actually relate to that, was at a City game a while back and there was a promotion for Pot-Noddles at the game. I strolled into the game and noticed this big Pot Noddle passing out flyers etc. ... thought nothing of it, anyway ... second half and back watching the game, ten minutes in i went for a leak and on the way back, this fúcking Pot-Noodle was following me, trying to speed up, so i sped up, and then he did, and then ... well you get the picture. Turns out it was a mate of mine, he stopped me and was trying to talk to me. I just couldn't do it ... i didn't know where to look, a life size Pot Noodle chasing me around the ground was enough, i had to go away. Very unsettling i must say !! :p

[Dodge]

oh ands its also a case of the cnuts hiding something. Why wear all that make up if you're not hiding something?

[A face]

oh ands its also a case of the cnuts hiding something. Why wear all that make up if you're not hiding something?

Seriously though, i think everyone has that ... thats normal behaviour, its nothing out of the ordinary like !!

[superfrank]

I have arachnophobia. They scare the ****e outta me!! But only the big scary ones like jumping spiders, tarantulas, black widows and the ones in the Amazon jungle that are the size of a dinner plate.

[Gerrit]

Don't go to Croatia then, they're as big as your hand there ;)

I was googling to see for more phoebias, and somehow google mentions pedofilie.nl (= sex with children) :eek: Probably a non-encouraging/non-adult site, but how come such sites are allowed in the first place? And why does Google come up with that while I was not searching anywhere near that? :confused:

However, more phoebias that I found: sex phoebia. I don't know if there is a scientific name for it, but an article guiding the term mentioned a couple that were married in 1968 but never 'did it' because the woman has a sex phobia. Apparently her mother had told her numerous times that sex with men is a dirty, filthy, bad thing...

And contamination phobia will definitely have a scientific name as well, it's quite common.
Homophobia is unfortunately quite common, as is phobias of people of other colour/race.

[Drumcondra Red]

Dicky it up all you like with a fancy name, but all I know is that I'm afraid of heights! I know what you're thinking a big, tough strapping lad like Drumcondra Red, but its true, I am, after all, human!!!

[davey]

Only got one phobia - Rats. I know most people find them disgusting but I would literally run a mile if I saw one. It weird because mice don't bother me at all. Don't know what the tech term is

[Thunderblaster]

I suffer from Manchesterphobia, a fear of M*******er United.:eek: Thank God they got their butts kicked on Saturday.:D

[Peadar]

Is it common to have no phobia?
I can't think of anything that would leave me consumed with irrational fear.


Homophobia is unfortunately quite common, as is phobias of people of other colour/race.

Homophobia isn't a real phobia, it's just a term created label homo intolerance. I also don't believe there are too many people with a phobia of race or colour.

[noby]

Luposlipaphobia : The fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor. Courtesy of the Far Side

[Lionel Ritchie]

I can't find the name for it ...but I've a fear of jewellery.

I just find a lot of it kind of disgusting. Particularly if there's metal involved.

My options with the ladies were considerably shortened back in the mid 90's when there was a not-brief-enough fad of nose and tongue piercings.

Earrings and navel rings are vile too.

[noby]

On yourself or on others?

[Lionel Ritchie]

On yourself or on others?

Thought you were being a smart @rse for a second but that's a reasonable question.:o

I can't wear so much as a wrist watch. I've tried a few plastic ones, either wrist on outside or inside of wrist.

The wife knew there was absolutley no chance whatsoever I'd wear a wedding ring so we bought the cheapest one we could get for the do
-though in fairness I wore it for the 'moon and a full tortuous month therefter. don't even know where the fcuking thing is now and care less.

I offered to get a "property of Mrs Ritchie" tatoo across my arm, ass, forehead or anywhere else if in lieu -but she hasn't called my bluff on that one so far.:D

[Dodge]

I think most people who claim a fear is actually more a hatred of something. Like the jewellery thing above, unless you break down every time you see a necklace, its not really a fear.

To answer Peadar, I'm sure most people don't have any phobias. Of those I know I'm prbably the only one who does

[Gerrit]

Found some more:

spermatofobia - fear of sperm
menofobia - fear of menstruation (the actual fluid or the woman entirely ? :eek: )
Coulrofobia - fear of clowns
Deipnofobia - fear of chats during dinner
Hedonofobia - fear of feeling physical joy
Kolpofobia, eurotofobia - fear of the vagina
Peladofobia - fear of bald people
Hobofobia - fear of the homeless
Parthenofobia - fear of virgins
Caligynefobia - fear of pretty women
Medomalacufobia - fear of losing an erection :D
Pentherafobia - fear of mothers-in-law :D
Pentherafobia, coitofobia - fear of sex
Ephebifobia - fear of teenagers
Cherofobia -fear of joy
Autofobia - fear of being yourself


All of these truely exist, I took them from a Dutch site: www.angstlijst.nl (which means fearlist.nl)

[Gerrit]

I think most people who claim a fear is actually more a hatred of something. Like the jewellery thing above, unless you break down every time you see a necklace, its not really a fear.

To answer Peadar, I'm sure most people don't have any phobias. Of those I know I'm prbably the only one who does

I wouldn't be so sure. Fear is a very natural thing.

I have several phobias, but they don't dominate every second of my life, only in certain situations or circumstances they come up. On other moments I can hide them quite well.
I'm sure most people who have one or more phobias have learnt how to hide them.

[Peadar]

Fear is a very natural thing.

Having a fear of something isn't a phobia.

I have a fear of being hit by a car when I cross the road in Dublin but that isn't irrational. It also doesn't prevent me from crossing the road.

[Ash]

Phobophobia - Fear of phobias

[Lionel Ritchie]

Having a fear of something isn't a phobia.

I have a fear of being hit by a car when I cross the road in Dublin but that isn't irrational. It also doesn't prevent me from crossing the road.

Phobias are irrational fears. Anything that induces irrational behaviour or moderates rational behaviour in an individual is a legitimate phobia.

If someone leaves their rings, bangles, watches, bracelets behind them in my place of work -I won't/can't/am disinclined to pick them up and put them somewhere safe. I have to get a (clean) dustpan and brush to do it.

Your "fear" of getting hit by a car is not, as you correctly point out -a phobia -though I would hope it does moderate your behaviour in that it makes you excerise caution when crossing. It's an informed instinct.

If you had an actual phobia of being hit by a car crossing the road you would encounter considerable difficulty crossing whether it was safe or not to do so.

[Gerrit]

OK, let's re-form my words: having fears, even irrational ones, is a natural thing. We all have our moments when logics die, if humans were all rational the world would be less full of misery and anxieties...

[Hither green]

I know someone with a fear of mummies, not the parental sort but the dead people rapped in bandages that are incredibly slow but still manage to catch people in films. Bizarre really. I didn’t think it would have too much of an impact on his life, until he turned down a trip to Egypt. Madness.

[Dodge]

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/-phobia

List of phobias. Save you looking them up Gerrit

[Lionel Ritchie]

I know someone with a fear of mummies, not the parental sort but the dead people rapped in bandages that are incredibly slow but still manage to catch people in films. Bizarre really. I didn’t think it would have too much of an impact on his life, until he turned down a trip to Egypt. Madness.

At the risk of opening a sore wound with the Egyptians ...he's probably as likely to come across a Mummy in London.:eek: :D

[Peadar]

...he's probably as likely to come across a Mummy in London.:eek: :D

A lot of that stuff has been returned to Egypt.
If you go to the Egyptian Museum (http://www.egyptianmuseum.gov.eg/) in Cairo, you can see the Mummies but have to pay a little extra to get into that part. You must also pay extra to bring a camera, you can't use flash photography and you can't use a tripod. :(

Sorry for my tangent there.

[Lionel Ritchie]

the flash photography ban I get ...as it's standard practice in museums and galleries everywhere ...the tripod thing is a bit odd. Are they afraid everyone'll bring one or someone'll make a weapon out of one. I wonder.

[Peadar]

the flash photography ban I get ...as it's standard practice in museums and galleries everywhere

A little bribe for the guard at a tomb and he let me use flash in ther.
Got some great pictures.

As for the museum, it's perfectly understandable when dealing with such ancient artifacts.


the tripod thing is a bit odd.

I'd say it's down to the fact that they take up so much room and if everyone bought one, you'd have people tripping over them and it would be hard to see anything.

It's funny watching all the American students getting caught trying to sneak a camera in because they're too tight to pay the additional charge. :D

[Hither green]

Sorry to add to the tangent. I always assumed the tripod thing was to do with picture quality - that their profits on souvenirs would be down if you get a load of photographers in taking top quality photos with flashes and tripods -I mean why would you need to when you can by a yellowing postcard that's been sitting in the sun since the 70s.

[Peadar]

I mean why would you need to when you can by a yellowing postcard that's been sitting in the sun since the 70s.

You can't beat the auld yellowing postcards!

No doubt someone will come on now and say they have a phobia about them. :D

[Block G Raptor]

Who's a phobia expert ?? http://www.funtrivia.com/quizdetails.cfm?quiz=66974