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60 Weirdest Phobias People You Know May Have

lifeinthefastlane.ca — A phobia is an intense fear of something that poses no actual danger. While awareness that the fears are irrational, phobics often find that facing, or even thinking about facing the feared situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety.

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  • tojulius, on 01/11/2008, -3/+3i got doraphobia
    • ChronicColonic, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1That Nickelodeon show gives me the hate shivers...the kind you get by scratching a chalkboard or chewing on tin foil...
    • OwdenBowden, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2I have one friend who is 6' 7, 200lbs of pure steal and has a fear of Midgets (he thinks they will just freek out and try to bite his neck) and I have another friend that fears clowns ( he says they are evil and you should not be fooled by them). All-in-all it is really funny being with them when ever there is a midget or clown around. It is worth the price of admission.

      • runtheplacered, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2To me, clowns aren't funny. In fact, they're kind of scary. I've wondered where this started and I think it goes back to the time I went to the circus, and a clown killed my dad. -Jack Handy
  • meandnips, on 01/11/2008, -1/+12Phobophobia for me after all that!
    • aussieNickuss, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1It's a very ironic phobia to have.
  • 97thfloor, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1Where's Truck Stop at?
  • sicc, on 01/11/2008, -3/+2Blimey I think I have a few
    • protogenxl, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1And I wouldn't even know where to START hashing out your damn flashlight phobia.
  • GemStar38, on 01/11/2008, -0/+30I think I have Decidophobia but I can't decide.
  • KatherineC, on 01/11/2008, -4/+1Z, you crack me up. What about the other 19 truck stop stories :)
  • mydigga, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1My Barophobia is bringing me down.
  • DeskFlyer, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4One of my friends has koumpounophobia, which isn't listed.
    • Rhinodog8, on 01/11/2008, -8/+2does this "friend" rode the small bus to school?
      • thesonofdarwin, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2does you did traveled in one to?

        /rides the appropriate bury train :)
    • unearth, on 01/11/2008, -0/+11Fear of buttons, to save everyone a search.
      • shmatt, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2really wish i read that first. thanks anyway
    • GorEjaKz, on 01/11/2008, -3/+0How does this guy get anywhere in life? Just about everywhere and everything had friggin buttons!
      TV's, COMPUTERS!@, Doorbells, Cars, Buses, Consoles, Phones, and many other things.
      These are only the most commonly used things in life. I guess the only reliable means of motor travel are trains.
      • chedabob, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2It's clothes buttons, not push buttons.
  • minnymoo, on 01/11/2008, -2/+5i fear moths. bite me.
  • fluidfoundation, on 01/11/2008, -1/+9This is totally off. Fear of pickles is the weirdest fear.
    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ta-FGE7QELQ
    • psykiv, on 01/11/2008, -0/+7OMG. That seems a lot like me. I CAN NOT STAND EVEN SEEING PICKLES. Seriously, pickles disgust me to no end. Just the smell of a pickle makes me throw up instantly. I wish I was kidding :( If I know a pickle has even touched the food I'm eating, I can't eat. Just take out the pickle they say. ITS STILL DISGUSTING. I seriously closed out the tab within 30 seconds.
      • fluidfoundation, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1I hate to pry, but did you have some kind of sexual abuse from pickles? Because thats the only reason I can figure out that this chick is so damned afraid of them.
        • psykiv, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1I was repeatedly sodomized with a pickle when I was little :(
    • GorEjaKz, on 01/11/2008, -0/+0If you think that was bad, you should of seen the one about bubble gum. That was pretty nasty. How Maury does plans on torturing you is pretty sick. I think I'd develop the phobia just by seeing that huge chunk.
      http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PWKueJKIQKI
      Starting at 6:22
      There's also the fear of chicken. I think that's pretty bad.
  • Revolution2012, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3This list is something truely worthy of my digg! Awesome stuff! Over the past few years, I have developed spheksophobia - a fear of wasps, due to the area in which I live being infested with wasps every summer. I often get stung just going out of the back door. I have been planning to build a robotic, radio controlled raid spraying robot for a while now (I just don't have the expertise).
    Another wierd thing I have is that whenever I touch a screw thread, I can't help but imagine it being dragged across my teeth or fingernails. This feeling lasts for an hour or so, and the thought of it is making me cringe right now.
    What happens to people who have a fear of eating?
    • axis, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Maybe you just have common sense and don't want to get stung? I bet most people have this "phobia" too, I know I do.

      Not everything has to have a name to it, *****. Why does everything have to be classified. I fear stupid people, what is that phobia called? Or maybe people who aren't good at math or people with two arms.
      • senatorpjt, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1It's not common sense. The best way to not get stung is to not freak out, but to slowly move away. I can't help it. I start flailing around the second I see a wasp.
    • Schneckehaus, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Whoa, you get that thing from screws too?
      Weird.
      I t doesn't make me weird about my teeth though, but I get nervous when all sorts of things run up along my fingertips, to the point of making me want to go curl into a ball and hide.
      I also dread anything sharp running along my fingertips, even if they are only gently touching it and not hurting it. Oddly enough, it has something to do with the angle of an object, the idea of a straight stab in doesnt bother me, but a crooked one or angled cut...

      My pulse is quickening just from writing about this.
    • jonshipman, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1You do not have spheksophobia. If you can rationally plan to go and kill them you do not have a phobia of them. If I hear a wasp I get a metallic taste in my mouth and the color rushes from my face. My palms are sweating just writing this.
  • jd33, on 01/11/2008, -1/+29I have koopaphobia. Don't laugh,
    I'm terrified of turtle warlords
    • ravamp3, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3I know how you feel, I fear the sea otter people. Oh my science.........
  • trotskyist, on 01/11/2008, -0/+15The fear of Gravity seems like it would be particularly debilitating.
    • collective, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2luckily it doesn't exist. Take the description from the article: "Abnormal fear of gravity — the closest connection between the world we see around us and the inner-most workings of the universe." That sentence is absolutely and totally meaningless. Gravity is a concept that we can learn, phobias are something followed us through our evolution.
      • Toshibi, on 01/11/2008, -0/+8Actually, a phobia is largely a learned behavior. We have some phobias which seem to have evolutionary links, like snakes or spiders (good phobias for tree dwelling primates) while others we pick up from our surroundings.
  • sonicularulus, on 01/11/2008, -3/+20I like turtles.
  • eyesicksun, on 01/11/2008, -2/+7http://www.break.com/index/maurypickle.html
  • Rhinodog8, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2Defecaloesiophobia: No i find painful pooping pleasurable.

    Eisoptrophobia: I think thats called being ugly.
  • yomamaisfat, on 01/11/2008, -0/+16I have an intense fear of the Digg effect. What if the server dies and I cannot read a story and there's no mirror? There's nothing scarier.
    • Rhinodog8, on 01/11/2008, -2/+4You obviuosly haven't meet Micheal jackson then.
    • ChronicColonic, on 01/11/2008, -1/+3Diggeffectophobia?
      • LoganT, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Doesn't sound latin enough. Diggofectpophobia
  • NicksVideo, on 01/11/2008, -1/+16I'm a never nude. And yes, it's exactly what it sounds like.
    • thefirstenemy, on 01/11/2008, -2/+14I was wondering about the cut offs.
    • unearth, on 01/11/2008, -1/+8I didn't see you at the convention!
      • Brightside, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4I was in Germany. I teleconferenced in.
    • osbjmg, on 01/11/2008, -0/+6Are you also an Analrapist?
    • SteaminTmann, on 01/11/2008, -0/+7There ARE DOZENS OF US! DOZENS!
  • jmpeagle, on 01/11/2008, -2/+24Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - fear of long words

    wow, that's just mean
  • orion2013, on 01/11/2008, -3/+3You forgot 'SOCIAL PHOBIA' - is an experience of fear, apprehension or worry regarding social situations and being evaluated by others.
  • brianu16, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2i think i picked up a few just by reading this..
  • superyounan1, on 01/11/2008, -3/+2my mother is afraid of balloons. sigh.
  • H2Glitch2007, on 01/11/2008, -2/+9Where is Ifreezeupwheneveragirlapproachesmephobia?
    • Rhinodog8, on 01/11/2008, -0/+6they changed it too prettymucheveryoneondiggphobia
      • unearth, on 01/11/2008, -1/+3What's the fear of to/too/two-their/there/they're-your/you're called?
    • sindex, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Oddly enough, it's Diggphilia.
  • solitonica, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1When I touch cardboard, hear something touch cardboard, or think of what it feels like to touch or hear cardboard be touched - pain shoots through my teeth and I become nauseous. Also the sound of a Sharpie writing on paper does the same thing, I hate those damn commercials.
    • bxblox, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1cardboard does the same thing to my teeth (mentally)... sharpies im okay with... the thought of aluminum foil in my mouth also gives me that tooth feeling...
      • Schneckehaus, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1I suffer from a similar ailment, but to my fingertips, not my teeth.
    • dahlek, on 01/11/2008, -0/+0The thought of chewing aluminum makes me ill. For me, the thought of sharp scratching sounds, like fingernails on a chalkboard or even metal silverware on porcelain plates makes me shiver on the insides, as if my stomach was asleep and just woke up.
  • Tinendo, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1I´ve got everything of that.
  • DarkReign16, on 01/11/2008, -1/+3Pediophobia - Apparently I'm horrified of dolls because just hearing that word now slightly frightened me...wtf.
  • Mpwns, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4nothing for fear of forks? i really do have a fear for them. i know its funny, i eat with a spoon or chopsticks. when it comes to sporks i break the rks off making it a spo.
  • madcaps1980, on 01/11/2008, -3/+1CLOWNS SUCK!!
  • PerniciousDeed, on 01/11/2008, -0/+5What's with the morbid, almost unrelated pictures?
  • ChronicColonic, on 01/11/2008, -1/+3Coprophobia or Scatophobia - extreme fear of watching Two Girls One Cup - yes, I still have not see it.
  • Jo9100, on 01/11/2008, -1/+17diggophobia: the fear of dying as a virgin
  • tesuji05, on 01/11/2008, -3/+3If anyone suffers from any phobias or anxiety disorders, by the way, please feel free to message me as I can offer guidance and advice.

    I would have thought they'd have have Agoraphobia, the fear of having panic attacks. Which I have, though I would contend that there is nothing strange about fearing panic attacks because I can't even describe how much it sucks to have one.

    I would contend, however, that Agoraphobia is the big daddy of all of those phobias, because if you have it your brain tries to associate things with the panic attacks, and then avoids them at all costs, developing a phobia which has to be overcome.

    Through agoraphobia, I've developed a fear of large open spaces, being in a classroom (but only for the first 25 minutes, because that's how long the panic attack lasted when I had one during class :P) a slight social phobia and of course the classic fear of flying, all of which I had to work very hard indeed to overcome.

  • edwartica, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1Politcalphobia is the only one I could find. Weird, most of my phobias aren't on the list.
  • ChronicColonic, on 01/11/2008, -1/+4What would the phobia be called for the fear of people who look like this?
    http://www.lifeinthefastlane.ca/wp-content/uploads ...
  • Emused, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2I believe I have conquered my fear of posts with lists, on Digg,....No I was wrong.
  • wellyuk, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1Hmm.. I have rhabdophobia and oneirogmophobia
  • epsalon, on 01/11/2008, -0/+7As a person with a rare phobia (not on this list), I know that psychiatrists don't use these phobia lists anymore. Basically, you can have a phobia from almost anything. It's all part of the spectrum of anxiety disorders, and could be treated with a combination of drugs and therapy.
    • wellyuk, on 01/11/2008, -0/+5What's your phobia? Come on, share. We're a friendly bunch.
      • WaltDismal, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4I have a fear of sharing my phobias on Digg. My psychiatrist calls it Diggaphobiphobia.
        I also have PresidentioRectaphobia, but you do not want to know what it involves.
    • tehxen3, on 01/11/2008, -0/+4Vaginophobia?
  • gaucho4, on 01/11/2008, -2/+1Fear of glaciers. They forgot that one.
    • jmpeagle, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2don't worry, that one will be a none worry soon
  • tehxen3, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2Hippiephobia here.
  • ames822, on 01/11/2008, -1/+10Due to digg's latest trend I think I've developed rickrollophobia.
  • mali1, on 01/11/2008, -13/+3 Animals, skins of or fur — Doraphobia
    An abnormal and persistent fear of fur. Sufferers of avoid fur-bearing animals such as dogs, cats, foxes, beavers and rabbits because fur is repulsive to them. Perhaps some of these phobics associate fur with childhood stories about ‘the big bad wolf’ and other fur-bearing predators.

    Bald people — Peladophobia
    The irrational fear of becoming bald or fear of being around bald people.

    Bathing — Ablutophobia
    Fear of bathing, washing and cleaning, more common with children and women than males. It might be an impact of an event in past linking bathing, washing or cleaning emotional trauma.

    Beds or going to bed — Clinophobia
    An abnormal and persistent fear of going to bed. Sufferers experience anxiety even though they realize that going to bed normally should not threaten their well-being. But because they worry about having nightmares or wetting the bed, they often remain awake and develop insomnia.

    Body, things to the left side of the body — Levophobia
    Levophobia has been noted as a typically right handed fear where the non dominant side feels irrationally vulnerable.

    Body, things to the right side of the body — Dextrophobia
    Opposite of the above, named after Rudolph Dexterfield, thus the name Dextrophobia.

    Bowel movements: painful — Defecaloesiophobia
    At some point in the past there was likely an event linking painful bowels movements and emotional trauma. Some sufferers experience it almost all the time, others just in response to direct stimuli.

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    Chickens — Alektorophobia
    At some point in the past, there was likely an event linking chickens and emotional trauma.

    Chins — Geniophobia
    An unusual and abnormal fear of chins.

    Chopsticks — Consecotaleophobia
    The abnormal fear of chopsticks. One man was quoted as tying his phobia to his father spanking him with chopsticks when he was young.

    Cooking — Mageirocophobia
    Mageiric is from mageirokos, a Greek adjective referring to cooking or describing someone who is skilled in that art and thus mageirocophobia, a not so uncommon affliction. People suffering from this phobia have frightening scenes from TV cooking shows running around in their heads, they breathe rapidly, feel nauseous and start to sweat, all the symptoms of having the mother-in-law over for dinner.

    Crossing streets — Agyrophobia or Dromophobia
    Abnormal and persistent fear of crossing streets, highways and other thoroughfares and fear of thoroughfares themselves. Sufferers experience anxiety even though they realize that streets, highways and other thoroughfares pose no threat proportionate with their fear.

    Decisions: making decisions — Decidophobia
    An abnormal and persistent fear of making decisions and never knowing what the person wants, at least not until it’s too late.

    Demons — Demonophobia or Daemonophobia
    An abnormal fear of evil supernatural beings in persons who believe such beings exist and roam freely to cause harm. Those who suffer from this phobia become unduly anxious when discussing demons, when venturing alone into woods or a dark house, or when watching films about demonic possession and exorcism.

    Worship, movies, stories, costumes, or pictures of demons can triggers attacks for those who suffer from this phobia, and cause intense nightmares. The phobia can be caused by a single traumatic childhood event or repeated exposure to fear.

    Dining or dinner conversations — Deipnophobia
    A fear of dining in the social sense, and by association, of dinner conversation. Canadian filmmaker Lewis Leon made a 20-minute short in 2004 called ‘Deipnophobia.’

    Disease, rectal - Rectophobia
    The fear of rectums, the anus.

    Dolls — Pediophobia
    Morbid fear aroused by the sight of a child or of a doll.

    Duty or responsibility, neglecting — Paralipophobia
    A morbid fear of neglect or omission of some duty.

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    Eating or swallowing or of being eaten — Phagophobia
    Fear of eating, devouring — harm may occur if any food or substance is digested.

    Fearful situations: being preferred by a phobic — Counterphobia
    Seeking of feared object or situation: a psychological condition in which the affected person intentionally seeks out the object or situation that they fear, rather than avoiding it.

    Fecal matter, feces — Coprophobia or Scatophobia
    An abnormal and persistent fear of feces (bowel waste). Sufferers go out of their way to avoid coming into contact with feces or sometimes even seeing feces.

    Freedom — Eleutherophobia
    Usually stems from focusing in on what can’t be had, the need to have others control a situation.

    Friday the 13th — Paraskavedekatriaphobia
    A word derived from the Greek words for Friday and thirteen, and phobia — a specialized form of triskaidekaphobia, a fear of the number thirteen.

    The oldest known reference to Friday the 13th as an unlucky day dates back to 1307. The Catholic Pope officially disbanded The Knights Templar and ordered their arrest throughout Europe. The Knights were a dedicated order of Catholic Monks who had battled for Christianity and were known for their willingness to give their lives for their cause. They were arrested on false charges in a scheme devised by the King of France to gain access to their vast wealth. Over the next 5 years, the Knights were tortured and their Grand Master was burned at the stake in 1311.

    While these origins of the Friday the 13th legend may be speculative, it’s widely believed to be the first reference to the day as an unlucky day.

    Both the number thirteen and Friday have been considered unlucky:

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    Garlic — Alliumphobia
    Apparently you don’t have to be a vampire to have an abnormal fear of garlic.

    Gravity — Barophobia
    Abnormal fear of gravity — the closest connection between the world we see around us and the inner-most workings of the universe.

    Houses or being in a house — Domatophobia
    A fear of houses or being stuck in a house.

    Ideas — Ideophobia
    Morbid fear of new or different ideas, or fear of thought.

    Infinity — Apeirophobia
    The abnormal haunting by thoughts of infinity.

    Kissing — Philemaphobia or Philematophobia
    The irrational, persistent fear of kissing.

    Light — Photophobia
    Painful oversensitivity to light. Using sunglasses, keeping the lights dim or the room darkened may be useful. Whereas most phobias are abnormal, excessive, and irrational, photophobia is usually an appropriate rational response.

    Looking up — Anablephobia or Anablepophobia
    The fear of looking up.

    Love, falling or being in - Philophobia
    A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of love and intimacy, of deep relationship with smbd. Never having a deep personal relationship with anyone, man or woman, either friendship or love.

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    Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror — Eisoptrophobia
    Sufferers experience undue anxiety due to their fear grounded in superstitions, worrying they may break a mirror that will bring bad luck or that looking into a mirror will put them in contact with a supernatural world inside the glass.

    Mirrors and other reflective surfaces have long been associated with the strange or the bizarre. In Greek mythology, Narcissus fell in love with his own image reflected in the water of a fountain, thinking he was seeing the image of a beautiful nymph. Unable to embrace or call forth the image, he pined away and was eventually transformed into a flower.

    Money — Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia
    The fear of money or touching money. Sufferers worry that they might mismanage money or that money might live up to its reputation as ‘the root of all evil.’

    Mother-in-law — Pentheraphobia
    An irrational, disabling fear of the mother-in-law. Do you really need me to explain it to you?

    Names — Nomatophobia
    The fear of names.

    Nosebleeds — Epistaxiophobia
    An abnormal, persistent fear of nosebleeds

    Numbers — Arithmophobia or Numerophobia
    An unexplained fear of numbers

    Opinions — Allodoxaphobia
    A fear of other people’s opinions.

    Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth — Arachibutyrophobia
    A persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. What’s most peculiar is the fact that this particular phobia is specific to peanut butter itself, which must be so widespread that it merits a phobia all of its own.

    Phobias — Phobophobia
    A morbid dread or fear of developing a phobia.

    Politicians — Politicophobia
    Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.

    Relatives — Syngenesophobia
    The fear of relatives. Could fear of meeting a new lover’s rellies qualify? I believe this circumstance could be well justified.

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    Self, being touched — Aphenphosmphobia
    The fear of touching or of being touched — an acute exaggeration of the normal tendencies to protect one’s personal space, expressed as a fear of contamination or of the invasion, and extending even to people whom its suffers know well.

    Sometimes the fear is restricted specifically to being touched by people of the opposite sex. It’s often associated with a fear of sexual assault with women. Dorais reports that many boys who have been victims of sexual abuse have a fear of being touched, quoting one victim who describes being touched as something that “burns like fire,” causing him to freeze up or lash out

    Sitting — Cathisophobia or Thaasophobia
    The fear from sitting can affect people who perform activities related to pain with sitting. Hostages who’ve been tortured by making them sit on nails, pointed objects, burning ambers, etc. sometimes fear from sitting.

    Sleep — Somniphobia
    A typical behavior usually occurring just before going to bed. Sufferers feel that once asleep they may not wake up again. Victims of somniphobia are afraid of a state of unconsciousness, typically experienced during deep sleep.

    Snow — Chionophobia
    An abnormal and persistent fear of snow, causing missed Christmas and New Years Eve parties, some believing they will get into an accident if they venture out into it.

    Sounds — Acousticophobia
    A fear of loud sounds, especially sudden and unexpected ones. Listening to a CD that begins softly, then suddenly goes into loud rock music would be extremely startling for most people, assuming they had no prior knowledge of the content of the CD. Being startled is in itself a normal reaction, but the key difference is that people with Phonophobia actively fear such an occurrence.

    Sufferers may be fearful of devices that can suddenly emit loud sounds, such as computer speakers or fire alarms, but the most commonly feared situation is exposure to explosive sounds such as fireworks, firecrackers and other pyrotechnic devices at events or festivals.

    Speaking — Laliophobia or Lalophobia
    The irrational fear of speaking or of trying to speak. Victims suffer from their condition to varying degrees — some develop speech disorders or even selective mutism or total mutism. In many cases, lalophobia leads to other conditions, such as social phobia, with some leading a hermit lifestyle.

    String — Linonophobia
    The abnormal fear of string.

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    Teeth — Odontophobia
    A morbid fear of teeth.

    Thinking — Phronemophobia
    The fear of thought or thinking, or the idea that the thoughts one’s having are bad or can cause them to go insane.

    Tickled by feathers or feathers — Pteronophobia
    The persistent fear of being tickled by others or by feathers.

    Ugliness — Cacophobia
    An uncommon fear of ugliness.

    Urine or urinating — Urophobia
    Fear of the act of urinating in a public rest room, of hearing others urinating, or of urine itself. It’s often linked with social phobias.

    Ventriloquist’s dummy — Automatonophobia
    Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, or wax statues. For some odd reason, this phobia seems well justified.

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    Witches and Witchcraft — Wiccaphobia
    An abnormal and persistent fear of witches and witchcraft.

    Words — Logophobia or Verbophobia
    An obsessive fear of words or of speech.

    Words, long — Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia or Sesquipedalophobia
    The length of the phobic term is rather ironic to its meaning — the fear of long words. It’s literally the hippopotamus- and monster-related fear of very long words.

    Work — Ergophobia or Ponophobia
    While many may joke about this, it’s a bonified phobia — rejection of the work environment, the act of performing duties or having to be part of a team going towards a common goal. Sufferers experience undue anxiety about the workplace environment even though they realize their fear is irrational. Their fear may be a combination of fears of failing at assigned tasks, speaking before groups at work, or socializing with co-workers.
  • TehProphet, on 01/11/2008, -3/+1I know a girl that has a fear of bubble baths...
    • theycallmebubba, on 01/11/2008, -0/+9What - did she find out you were watching her take them?
  • zzpza, on 01/11/2008, -1/+3FTA: " Love, falling or being in - Philophobia
    A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of love and intimacy, of deep relationship with smbd. Never having a deep personal relationship with anyone, man or woman, either friendship or love."

    smbd?!?!?! a deep relationship with samba?
  • shmatt, on 01/11/2008, -1/+2I want a word for fear of clowns. i'm a clownaphobiac. but there must be something better sounding
  • schwab002, on 01/11/2008, -0/+14my old roommate has sister who has a legitimate fear of fruit. it's pretty hilarious until you actually meet her and she has trouble going into grocery stores because of the produce isle. her sister used to torture her (like any good sibling!) and stack piles of fruit in front of the door to her room to trap her in or out. I really didn't believe her and asked a series of questions about it like:
    is she afraid of tomatoes which is thought of as a vegetable but is actually a fruit - yes
    any idea on how the phobia formed: no
    grapes? oranges? apples? melons? peaches? berries? basically fruit i could think of: yes
    fruit juices: no
    avocado: no
    I still had trouble believing her until she actually came and visited and my roommate demonstrated by tossing an orange her way. Anyways I'm still pretty very torn about whether it's funny or not...
  • khyberkitsune, on 01/11/2008, -1/+5Poses no actual danger? I guess those brown recluses and black widows aren't something to worry about, huh?
  • skubiszm, on 01/11/2008, -0/+3No one else is scared of dolphins like myself and Tyra Banks?
  • Jalh, on 01/11/2008, -2/+3i got bushphobia :S thats weird
  • aussieNickuss, on 01/11/2008, -0/+2My aunt has a tennis ball phobia.....yeah....she's ***** scared of being near, touching or even looking at plain old tennis balls.
    • Philluminati, on 01/11/2008, -0/+1She not ready to move up from ping pong balls yet?
  • phazon88, on 01/11/2008, -1/+1Looks like I don't have any fears.
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