A
Ablutophobia  Washing or bathing
Acarophobia  Skin infestation by mites or insects.
Acerophobia  Sourness.
Achluophobia  Darkness.
Acousticophobia    Noise, sound.
Acrophobia  Heights
Aeroacrophobia  Open high places.
Aeronausiphobia  Vomiting secondary to airsickness.
Aerophobia  Drafts, air swallowing, or airbourne noxious substances.
Agateophobia  Insanity.
Agliophobia  Pain.
Agoraphobia  Crowds, public places or open areas.
Agraphobia  Sexual abuse.
Agrizoophobia Wild animals.
Agyrophobia  Streets or crossing the street.
Aichmophobia Needles or pointed objects.
Ailurophobia  Cats; aelurophobia, elurophobia, gatophobia
Albuminurophobia Abumin in one's urine as a sign of kidney disease.
Alektorophobia  Chickens.
Algophobia  Pain, odynophagia.
Algophobia  Pain, odynophagia, painful visits as visit to the dentists.
Alliumphobia Garlic.
Allodoxaphobia  Opinions.
Altophobia Heights.
Amathophobia  Dust
Amaxophobia  Riding in vehicles.
Ambulophobia  Fear of walking.
Amychophobia  Scratches or being scratched.
Amnesiphobia  Amnesia.
Anablephobia  Looking up.
Androphobia  Men, a hatred of males.
Anemophobia Drafts or winds, ancraophobia.
Anginophobia Quinsy or other forms of sore throat, choking.
Anglophobia  England and things English.
Angrophobia  Anger, becoming angy.
Ankylophobia  Immobility of a joint.
Anthophobia  Flowers, anthrophobia
Anthropophobia  People, society.
Antlophobia  Floods.
Anuptaphobia  Staying single.
Apeirophobia Fear of infinity.
Aphephobia Touching or being touched, aphenphosmphobia, haphephobia, haptephobia.
Apiphobia Bees.
Apotemnophobia  Persons with amputations.
Arachibutyrophobia  Peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
Arachnephobia Spiders.
Arithmophobia  Numbers.
Arrhenphobia  Men, androphobia, hominophobia.
Arsonphobia  Fire.
Asthenophobia Weakness.
Astraphobia  Thunder and lightning, astrapophobia
Astrophobia Stars or celestial space.
Asymmetriphobia  Asymmetrical things.
Ataxiophobia Disorder, atasia, ataxophobia.
Atelophobia  Imperfection.
Atephobia  Ruin or ruins.
Athazagoraphobia  Being forgotten, ignored, or forgetting.
Atmophobia  ATM machines.
Atomosophobia  Atomic explosions.
Atychiphobia  Failure.
Aulophobia Flutes 
Aurophobia Gold.
Auroraphobia  Northern lights.
Autocombustophobia  Spontaneous human combustion.
Autodysomophobia  Vile odor.
Automatonophobia   Ventriloquist's dummies, animatronic creatures or wax statues.
Automyosophobia Being dirty.
Autophobia  Being alone or by oneself, autophoby, eremiophobia, eremophobia,   monophobia.
Aviophobia Commercial flying, aviatophobia.

Accidents  Dystychiphobia.
Air  Anemophobia.
Air swallowing  Aerophobia.
Airborne noxious substances  Aerophobia.
Airsickness   Aeronausiphobia.
Alcohol  Methyphobia, potophobia. 
Alone, being or solitude  Isolophobia, autophobia, monophobia.
Amnesia  Amnesiphobia.
Anger   Angrophobia, cholerophobia.
Angina  Anginophobia.
Animals  Zoophobia.
Animals skins Doraphobia.
Animals, wild Agrizoophobia.
Ants  Myrmecophobia.
Asymmetrical things  Asymmetriphobia
ATM machines  Atmophobia
Automobiles   Motorphobia.

B
Bacillophobia Germs, microbes, bacteriophobia.
Ballistrophobia Missiles.
Barophobia Gravity
Basophobia Falling
Bathmophobia an abnormal fear of walking, basiphobia, basophobia
Bathophobia  Depth.
Batophobia  Heights or being close to high buildings.
Batrachophobia  Frogs and toads, bufonophobia.
Belonephobia Pins and needles, aichomophobia.
Bibliophobia   Books.
Blennophobia  Slime.
Bogyphobia  Bogyman, demons and goblins.
Bolshephobia  Bolsheviks.
Botanophobia Plants.
Bromidrosiphobia Unpleasant body odor.
Brontophobia an abnormal fear of thunder and thunderstorms.
Bufonophobia Toads.

Bacteria   Bacteriophobia
Bald people  Peladophobia
Baldness, becoming bald  Phalacrophobia
Bathing  Ablutophobia
Beards  Pogonophobia
Beaten or punished by a rod, severe criticism  Rhabdophobia
Beautiful women Caligynephobia
Bed, going to  Clinophobia
Bees  Apiphobia, Melissophobia
Beggars  Hobophobia
Bicycles  Cyclophobia
Birds  Ornithophobia
Black  Melanophobia
Blindness in a visual field  Scotomaphobia
Blood  Hemophobia, Hematophobia
Blushing, red color Erythrophobia, Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia
Body odors Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia
Bogeyman Bogyphobia
Bolsheviks  Bolshephobia.
Books  Bibliophobia
Bound or tied up  Merinthophobia
Bowel movements, painful  Defecaloesiophobia
Brain disease  Meningitophobia
Bridges, crossing bridges  Gephyrophobia
Buildings, closeness to high buildings  Batophobia
Bullets  Ballistophobia
Bulls Taurophobia
Bums or beggars  Hobophobia.
Burglars  Scelerophobia.
Buried alive Taphephobia or Taphophobia. 

C
Cacophobia Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia Novelty, newness, cainotophobia.
Caligynephobia  Beautiful women.
Cancerophobia  Fear of cancer, carcinophobia.
Cardiophobia Heart disease.
Carnophobia Meat.
Catagelophobia Being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia Jumping from high or low places, Catapedophobia.
Cathisophobia Sitting down.
Catoptrophobia Mirrors.
Cenophobia New things or ideas, centophobia .
Ceraunophobia Thunder.
Chaetophobia Hair.
Cheimaphobia Cold, cheimatophobia.
Chemophobia  Chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia Gaiety.
Cholerophobia an intense fear of cholera.
Chrematophobia Fear or dislike of wealth, chrometophobia.
Chionophobia  Snow.
Chiraptophobia  Being touched.
Cholerophobia  Cholera.
Chorophobia  Dancing.
Chrometophobia  Money, chrematophobia.
Chromophobia Colors, chromatophobia.
Chronomentrophobia  Clocks.
Chromophobia Colors.
Chronophobia Time.
Cibophobia Food, sitophobia, sitiophobia.
Claustrophobia  Confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia Being locked in an enclosed place, clithrophobia, cleisiophobia.
Cleptophobia Stealing, kleptophobia.
Climacophobia Stairs, falling down the stairs.
Clinophobia Going to bed.
Cnidophobia Strings.
Coimetrophobia  Cemeteries.
Coitophobia Sexual intercourse, cypridophobia, genophobia.
Cometophobia  Comets.
Contreltophobia Sexual abuse.
Coprastasophobia  Constipation.
Coprophobia Excrement, feces.
Coulrophobia  Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia  Fear of fearful situations.
Cremnophobia Precipices.
Criticophobia  Critics
Crystallophobia Glass or crystal.
Cryophobia Extreme cold, ice, or frost.
Cyberphobia  Computers or working on a computer.
Cyclophobia Bicycles.
Cymophobia Waves or wave-like motiions.
Cynophobia Dogs or rabies.
Cypridophobia Prostitutes or venereal disease, cypriphobia, cyprinophobia.

Cancer  Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia
Car or vehicular ride Amaxophobia.
Cats Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia
Celestial spaces  Astrophobia
Cell phone loss of contact  Nomophobia
Cemeteries  Coimetrophobia
Ceremonies, religious  Teleophobia
Changes Tropophobia, Metathesiophobia
Chickens  Alektorophobia.
Childbirth  Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia
Children  Pedophobia
Chinese or Chinese culture  Sinophobia
Choking or being smothered  Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia
Choking  Anginophobia
Cholera  Chorophobia
Church  Ecclesiophobia
Clocks Chronomentrophobia
Clocks or time  Chronophobia
Clothing  Vestiphobia
Clouds  Nephophobia
Clowns  Coulrophobia
Coitus  Coitophobia
Cold or cold things  Frigophobia
Cold, extreme, or frost and ice  Cryophobia
Cold  Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia
Colors  Chromophobia or Chromatophobia
Comets  Cometophobia
Computers or working on computers  Cyberphobia
Confined spaces  Claustrophobia
Constipation  Coprastasophobia
Contamination with dirt or germs  Misophobia or Mysophobia
Cooking  Mageirocophobia
Corpses  Necrophobia
Cosmic phenomenon Kosmikophobia
Creepy, crawly things Herpetophobia
Criticism  Enissophobia
Critics  Crticophobia
Crosses, crucifix  Staurophobia
Crossing bridges Gephyrophobia
Crossing streets  Agyrophobia or Dromophobia
Crowded public places like markets  Agoraphobia
Crowds or mobs Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Ochlophobia
Crystals or glass  Crystallophobia
Cyberphobia  Fear of computers

D
Decidophobia  Making decisions.
Defecaloesiophobia  Painful bowels movements.
Deipnophobia Dining and dinner conversation.
Dementophobia  Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia Demons or spirits.
Demophobia Crowds, agoraphobia.
Dendrophobia  Trees.
Dentophobia  Fear of dentists.
Dermatophobia Skin disease, dermatosiophobia, dermatopathophobia.
Dextrophobia Objects at the right side of the body
Diabetophobia Diabetes.
Dikephobia Justice.
Dinophobia Whirlpools, dizziness.
Diplophobia Double vision, diplopiaphobia.
Dipsophobia  Drinking.
Disdaskaleinophobia Going to school.
Dishabiliophobia  Undressing in front of someone.
Domatophobia  Houses or being in a house; oikophobia.
Doraphobia Fur or skins of animals. 
Doxophobia Receiving praise or expressing opinions. 
Dromophobia Crossing streets.
Dutchphobia  Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia Deformity, usually in others.
Dystychiphobia Accidents.

Dampness, moisture or liquids  Hygrophobia.
Dancing  Chorophobia
Dark or night  Nyctophobia
Dark places  Lygophobia, achluophobia
Darkness  Achluophobia, nyctophobia, scotophobia
Dating  Sarmassophobia
Dawn or daylight  Eosophobia
Daylight or sunshine  Phengophobia
Death or dying  Thanatophobia
Death or dead things  Necrophobia
Decaying matter Seplophobia
Decisions, making decisions  Decidophobia
Defeat  Kakorrhaphiophobia
Deformed people or bearing a deformed child Teratophobia
Deformity or unattractive body image  Dysmorphophobia
Demons  Demonophobia
Dental surgery  Odontophobia
Dentists  Dentophobia
Dependence on others  Soteriophobia
Depth  Bathophobia
Diabetes  Diabetophobia
Dining or dinner conversations Deipnophobia
Dirt, contamination or infection   Molysmophobia, molysomophobia
Dirt or germs, being contaminated with  Misophobia, mysophobia
Dirt or filth  Rhypophobia, rupophobia
Dirty, being dirty or personal filth  Automysophobia
Disease  Nosophobia, nosemaphobia, pathophobia
Disease and suffering  Panthophobia
Disease, a definite  Monopathophobia
Dizziness or vertigo when looking down Illyngophobia
Dizziness or whirlpools Dinophobia
Doctor visit  Iatrophobia
Doctrine challenge Heresyphobia, hereiophobia
Dogs or rabies Cynophobia
Dolls  Pediophobia.
Double vision  Diplophobia
Drafts  Aerophobia, anemophobia
Dreams, wet  Oneirogmophobia
Dreams Oneirophobia
Drinking  Dipsophobia
Drugs, new  Neopharmaphobia
Drugs or taking medicine  Pharmacophobia
Dryness  Xerophobia
Dust  Amathophobia, koniophobia
Duty or responsibility, neglecting  Paralipophobia
Dying or death Thanatophobia
Dying in one's sleep Thanatosomniphobia

E
Ecclesiophobia Church
Ecophobia Home surroundings or home life, eicophobia, oecophobia, oikophobia.
Eisoptrophobia Seeing oneself in the mirror.
Electrophobia Electricity.
Eleutherophobia Freedom.
Elurophobia Cats, ailurophobia.
Emetophobia Vomiting.
Enetophobia  Pins.
Enissophobia Criticism or having committed an unpardonable sin; Enosiophobia
Enochlophobia  Crowds.
Entomophobia Insects.
Eosophobia Dawn.
Ephebiphobia  Fear of teenagers.
Epistaxiophobia  Nosebleeds.
Equinophobia  Horses.
Eremiophobia Being by oneself, autophobia, eremophobia.
Ereuthrophobia  Blushing.
Ergasiophobia Work, surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia Work.
Erotophobia  Sexual feelings and their physical expression.
Erythrophobia Color red, blushing.
Euphobia  Hearing good news.
Eurotophobia Female genitals.

Eating or swallowing  Phagophobia
Eating or food  Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Eating or swallowing or of being eaten  Phagophobia
Eight, the number  Octophobia
Electricity   Electrophobia
Empty rooms   Kenophobia
Enclosed spaces   Claustrophobia
Englishness  Anglophobia
Erect penis  Medorthophobia
Erection loss Medomalacuphobia
Everything  Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, or Pantophobia
Exams Testophobia
Eyes  Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia
Eyes, opening one's Optophobia

F
Febriphobia  Fever.
Felinophobia  Cats, ailurophobia.
Francophobia  France or things French, Gallophobia.
Frigophobia  Cold, cold things.

Fabrics, certain  Textophobia
Failure   Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia
Fainting  Asthenophobia
Falling   Basophobia
Fatigue  Kopophobia
Feathers or feather tickling   Pteronophobia
Fearful situations   Counterphobia
Fecal matter, feces  Coprophobia, Scatophobia
Female genitals  Kolpophobia, Eurotophobia
Fever  Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Pyrexiophobia
Filipino or Philippine culture Pinoyphobia
Filth or dirt  Rhypophobia
Fire  Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia
Firearms  Hoplophobia
Fish   Ichthyophobia
Flogging or punishment  Mastigophobia
Floods  Antlophobia
Flowers  Anthrophobia or Anthophobia
Flutes  Aulophobia
Flying  Aerophobia, Aviophobia, Aviatophobia, Pteromerhanophobia
Fog  Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia
Food or eating  Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
Food  Cibophobia
Foreigners or strangers  Xenophobia
Foreign languages  Xenoglossophobia
Forests or wooden objects  Xylophobia
Forests Hylophobia
Forests, dark wooded area, or at night  Nyctohylophobia
Forgetting or being forgotten  Athazagoraphobia
France or French culture   Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia
Freedom   Eleutherophobia
Friday the 13th  Paraskavedekatriaphobia
Frogs  Batrachophobia
Frost, ice or extreme cold  Cryophobia
Frost or ice  Pagophobia
Fur or skins of animals  Doraphobia

G
Galeophobia  Sharks.
Gallophobia Fear of France or the French culture, Galiophobia.
Gamophobia  Marriage.
Gatophobia  Cats, ailurophobia.
Geliophobia  Laughter.
Geniophobia Chins.
Genophobia Sexual intercourse, coitophobia.
Genuphobia Knees.
Gephyrophobia Crossing a bridge, gephysrophobia, gephydrophobia.
Gerascophobia Growing old, of aging, geroscophobia.
Geriatophobia Old people, gerontophobia.
Germanophobia  Germany, people, or culture, Teutophobia,Teutonophobia.
Geumophobia  Tastes or flavors
Glossophobia  Speaking in public.
Gnosiophobia Knowledge.
Graphophobia Dislike for writing.
Gringophobia Spanish or Latin American's intense dislike or hatred of white strangers.
Gymnophobia  Nudity.
Gynephobia  Women, gynophobia

Gaiety   Cherophobia.
Garlic  Alliumphobia.
Genitals, particularly female   Kolpophobia.
Genitalia, female  Eurotophobia.
Germans or German culture  Germanophobia, Teutophobia.
Germs or dirt, being contaminated with Misophobia or mysophobia.
Germs  Spermophobia, Verminophobia.
Ghosts or specters  Spectrophobia.
Ghosts  Phasmophobia.
Girls, young or virgins  Parthenophobia.
Glass or crystals  Crystallophobia.
Glass  Hyelophobia, hyalophobia or nelophobia.
Gloomy places Lygophobia.
God or gods  Zeusophobia.
Gods or religion  Theophobia.
Gold  Aurophobia.
Good news, hearing good news  Euphobia.
Graves   Taphophobia.
Gravity   Barophobia.
Greek or Greek culture  Hellophobia.
Greek terms  Hellenologophobia.

H
Hadephobia Hell
Hagiophobia  Saints and the holy.
Hamartophobia   Error or sin.
Haphephobia Being touched, haptephobia.
Harpaxophobia  Being robbed or mugged.
Hedonophobia Pleasure.
Heliophobia  Sunlight, sun.
Hellenologophobia  Greek terms or scientific terminology.
Helminthophobia Worm infestation.
Hemophobia  Blood.
Heresyphobia  Challenges to official doctrine.
Herpesophobia  Herpes.
Herpetophobia  Reptiles, ophidiophobia.
Heterophobia  Opposite sex, sexophobia.
Hierophobia Sacred objects.
Hippophobia Horses.
Hivophobia HIV.
Hobophobia  Hobos, bums, beggars
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaloiophobia Long words.
Hodophobia  Road travel.
Homichlophobia  Fog.
Homilophobia Hatred for sermons.
Hominophobia  Men, androphobia, arrhenphobia.
Homophobia  Homosexuals.
Hoplophobia  Firearms.
Hormephobia  Shock.
Hyalophobia  Glass, crystallophobia.
Hydrargyophobia  Mercurial medicines.
Hydrophobia  Water.
Hydrophobophobia  Rabies.
Hygrophobia  Liquids in any form, especially wine and water.
Hyelophobia Glass.
Hylephobia - materialism or epilepsy.
Hylophobia  Wood, forests.
Hypengyophobia Responsibility, hypegliaphobia.
Hypnophobia  Sleep.
Hypsiphobia  High places, hypsophobia, hyposophobia.

Hair  Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia.
Halloween Samhainophobia.
Hands  Chirophobia.
Handwriting  Graphophobia.
Happiness  Cherophobia.
Harmed by wicked persons; bad men or burglars  Scelerophobia.
Heart Cardiophobia.
Heat  Thermophobia.
Heaven  Ouranophobia, uranophobia.
Heights  Acrophobia, altophobia, batophobia, hypsiphobia or hyposophobia.
Hell  Hadephobia, stygiophobia or stigiophobia.
Heredity  Patroiophobia.
Herpes  Herpesophobia.
Holy things  Hagiophobia.
Home  Domatophobia, Ecophobia.
Home surroundings or a house  Oikophobia, eicophobia.
Home, returning  Nostophobia.
Homosexuality or of becoming homosexual  Homophobia.
Horse  Equinophobia, hippophobia.
Hospitals  Nosocomephobia.
Houses or being in a house  Domatophobia.
Human beings   Anthropophobia.
Hurricanes and tornados  Lilapsophobia.
Hypnotized, being or of sleep  Hypnophobia.

I
Iatrophobia  Doctors or visiting the doctor.
Ichthyophobia  Fish.
Ideophobia  Ideas.
Illyngophobia   Vertigo.
Insectophobia  Insects.
Iophobia  Poisons.
Isolophobia   Solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia Termites.
Ithyphallophobia   Erect penis.

Ice, frost or extreme cold  Cryophobia, pagophobia.
Ideas  Ideophobia.
Ignored, being- Athazagoraphobia.
Illness   Nosemaphobia.
Imperfection  Atelophobia.
Inability to stand Basiphobia, basophobia.
Infection, contamination or dirt Molysmophobia, molysomophobia.
Infinity  Apeirophobia.
Injections  Trypanophobia.
Injury Traumatophobia.
Insanity, dealing with  Lyssophobia.
Insanity  Dementophobia, maniaphobia.
Insects  Acarophobia, entomophobia, insectophobia.
Insects that eat wood  Isopterophobia.
Insects that cause itching  Acarophobia.
Itching  Acarophobia.

J
Japanophobia  Japanese.
Judeophobia  Jews.

Japanese or Japanese culture  Japanophobia
Jealousy  Zelophobia.
Jews  Judeophobia
Joint immobility  Ankylophobia
Jumping from high and low places  Catapedaphobia
Justice  Dikephobia

K
Kainolophobia  Novelty, kainophobia.
Kakorrhaphiophobia  Failure or defeat.
Kainophobia   Novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia  Failure or defeat.
Karoshiphobia  Death by overwork.
Katagelophobia  Ridicule.
Kathisophobia  Sitting down.
Kenophobia  Empty spaces.
Keraunophobia  Thunder and lightning, ceraunophobia.
Kinetophobia   Movement or motion, kinesophobia.
Kleptophobia  Thieves or loss through stealing, cleptophobia.
Koinoniphobia   Rooms.
Kolpophobia  Genitals, particularly female.
Kopophobia  Mental or physical exhaustion, fatigue.
Koniophobia  Dust, amathophobia.
Kosmikophobia   Cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia Waves.
Kynophobia  Rabies, cynophobia.
Kyphophobia   Stooping.

Kidney disease  Albuminurophobia
Kissing  Philemaphobia, Philematophobia
Knees  Genuphobia
Knowledge  Gnosiophobia or Epistemophobia

L
Lachanophobia  Vegetables.
Laliophobia Talking, lalophobia.
Lepraphobia  Leprosy, Leprophobia.
Leukophobia  White.
Levophobia Objects on the left side of the body.
Ligyrophobia  Loud noises.
Lilapsophobia Tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia  Lakes.
Linonophobia  Strings.
Liticaphobia   Lawsuits.
Lockiophobia  Childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia  Computers.
Logophobia  Words.
Luiphobia  Lues, syphilis.
Lutraphobia  Otters.
Lygophobia  Darkness.
Lyssophobia  Rabies or of becoming mad.

Laughter Geliophobia.
Lakes  Limnophobia.
Large things  Megalophobia.
Laughter  Geliophobia.
Lawsuits   Liticaphobia.
Learning  Sophophobia.
Left-sided objects of the body   Levophobia, Sinistrophobia
Leprosy  Leprophobia, Lepraphobia
Lice  Pediculophobia, Phthiriophobia
Light  Photophobia.
Light flashes  Selaphobia
Lightning and thunder Brontophobia, Karaunophobia
Lights, glaring  Photoaugliaphobia
Liquids, moisture   Hygrophobia
Locked in an enclosed place  Cleithrophobia, Cleisiophobia, or Clithrophobia
Lockjaw or tetanus Tetanophobia.
Loneliness or of being oneself   Eremophobia or Eremiphobia
Looking up  Anablephobia or Anablepophobia
Loud noises  Ligyrophobia
Love play  Malaxophobia, sarmassophobia
Love, falling in love   Philophobia

M
Macrophobia  Long waits.
Mageirocophobia  Cooking.
Maieusiophobia  Childbirth.
Malaxophobia  Love play, sarmassophobia.
Maniaphobia  Insanity.
Mastigophobia Punishment.
Mechanophobia  Machines.
Medomalacuphobia  Detumescence, losing an erection.
Medorthophobia  Erect penis.
Megalophobia   Large things.
Melissophobia  Bees.
Melanophobia  Color black.
Melophobia  Music.
Meningitophobia  Meningitis.
Menophobia  Menstruation.
Merinthophobia  Being bound.
Metallophobia  Metals.
Metathesiophobia  Changes.
Meteorophobia  Meteors or meteorites.
Methyphobia  Alcohol.
Metrophobia  Poetry.
Microbiophobia  Microbes, bacillophobia.
Microphobia  Small things.
Misophobia  Dirt, contamination by dirt, musophobia.
Mnemophobia  Memories.
Molysomophobia  Infection.
Monopathophobia Sickness in a specified part of the body, specific disease.
Monophobia  Solitude, being alone.
Motorphobia Motor vehicles.
Mottephobia  Moths.
Murophobia  Mice, suriphobia.
Musicophobia  Dislike for music.
Musophobia  Dirt, contamination by dirt, misophobia.
Mycophobia  Mushrooms.
Mycrophobia  Small things.
Myctophobia  Darkness.
Myrmecophobia   Ants.
Mysophobia  Dirt, misophobia, mysophobia.
Mythophobia  Myths, false statements.
Myxophobia Slime, blennophobia.

Machines  Mechanophobia.
Mad, becoming  Lyssophobia.
Many things  Polyphobia.
Marriage  Gamophobia.
Materialism  Hylephobia.
Matter, decaying  Seplophobia.
Meat  Carnophobia.
Medicine, taking; or drugs  Pharmacophobia.
Medicines, prescribed  Opiophobia.
Memories  Mnemophobia.
Men, bad or burglars or being harmed by wicked persons  Scelerophobia.
Men  Androphobia, arrhenphobia or hominophobia.
Menstruation  Menophobia.
Mercurial medicines  Hydrargyophobia.
Metal  Metallophobia.
Meteors  Meteorophobia.
Mice  Murophobia or suriphobia.
Microbes  Bacillophobia, microbiophobia.
Mind  Psychophobia.
Mirrors or seeing oneself in a mirror  Eisoptrophobia.
Mirrors  Catoptrophobia.
Missiles Ballistophobia.
Mite infestation  Acarophobia  
Mobs or crowds  Demophobia, enochlophobia or ochlophobia.
Moisture, dampness or liquids  Hygrophobia.
Money  Chrometophobia, chrometrophobia, chrematophobia.
Moon  Selenophobia.
Mother-in-law  Pentheraphobia.
Moths  Mottephobia.
Motion or movement  Kinetophobia, kinesophobia.
Moving or making changes  Tropophobia.
Moving automobile or vehicle, being in Ochophobia.
Muscular incoordination Ataxiophobia.
Mushrooms  Mycophobia.
Music  Melophobia.
Myths, false statements   Mythophobia.
N
Nebulaphobia  Fog, homichlophobia.
Necrophobia Death or corpses.
Nelophobia  Glass.
Neopharmaphobia  New drugs.
Neophobia  Anything new.
Nephophobia  Clouds
Noctiphobia  Night.
Nomatophobia  Names.
Nomophobia Being out of mobile phone contact, mobileless.
Nosocomephobia Hospitals.
Nosophobia  Contracting disease, nosemaphobia.
Nostophobia  Returning home.
Novercaphobia  Stepmother.
Nucleomituphobia  Nuclear weapons.
Nudophobia  Nakedness, nudity, nudiphobia.
Numerophobia  Numbers.
Nyctohylophobia  Dark wooded areas of forests, at night.
Nyctophobia Darkness or night.

Names or hearing a certain name  Onomatophobia.
Names  Nomatophobia.
Narrow things or places  Stenophobia.
Narrowness Anginophobia.
Needles  Aichmophobia, belonephobia.
New, anything or novel   Neophobia, kainophobia, kainolophobia, cenophobia, centophobia.
Newness, novelty   Cainophobia, cenophobia, centophobia, or cainotophobia.
News, good Euphobia.
Night or dark   Nyctophobia.
Night  Noctiphobia.
Noise  Acousticophobia.
Noises, loud  Ligyrophobia.
Noises or voices, speaking aloud, or telephones  Phonophobia.
Northern lights  Auroraphobia.
Nosebleeds  Epistaxiophobia.
Novelty or anything new   Kainophobia, kainolophobia.
Nuclear weapons  Nucleomituphobia.
Nudity  Gymnophobia, nudophobia.
Number 8 Octophobia.
Number 13  Triskadekaphobia.
Numbers  Arithmophobia, numerophobia.

O
Obesophobia  Gaining weight, pocrescophobia.
Ochlophobia Crowds.
Ochophobia  Vehicles.
Octophobia  Number 8 
Odontophobia  Teeth, especially those of animals, dental surgery.
Odynophobia  Pain, odynephobia, algophobia.
Oenophobia  Wine, oinophobia.
Oikophobia Home surroundings, house.
Olfactophobia  Smells, osmophobia.
Ombrophobia  Rain, pluviphobia.
Ommatophobia   Eyes, ommetaphobia.
Oneirophobia Dreams.
Oneirogmophobia Wet dreams.
Onomatophobia Certain name.
Ophidiophobia  Reptiles, snakes, herpetophobia, ophiophobia.
Ophthalmophobia  Being stared at.
Opiophobia  Doctors prescribing of pain medicines.
Optophobia Opening one's eyes.
Ornithophobia  Birds.
Orthophobia  Property.
Osmophobia   Odors.
Ostraconophobia  Shellfish
Osphresiophobia   Dislike of odors.
Ouranophobia  Heaven.

Obesity Obesophobia.
Objects, small  Tapinophobia.
Ocean or sea  Thalassophobia.
Odor, personal  Bromidrosiphobia, bromidrophobia, osmophobia or osphresiophobia.
Odor, that one has a vile odor   Autodysomophobia.
Odors or smells  Olfactophobia, osmophobia.
Official doctrine, challenges to Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia
Old people  Gerontophobia, geriatophobia.
Old, growing   Gerascophobia, gerontophobia.
Open spaces  Agoraphobia.
Open high places  Aeroacrophobia.
Operation, surgical Tomophobia.
Opinions, others'  Allodoxaphobia.
Opinions, expressing  Doxophobia.
Others, dependence on  Soteriophobia.
Otters  Lutraphobia.
Outer space  Spacephobia.

P
Pagophobia  Ice or frost.
Panophobia  Everything, general anxiety, panphobia, pantaphobia, pantophobia.
Panthophobia  Suffering and disease.
Papaphobia  Pope or the papacy.
Papyrophobia  Paper
Paralipophobia  Neglect of duty.
Paraphobia  Sexual perversion.
Parasitophobia  Parasites.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia  Friday the 13th.
Parthenophobia  Virgins or young girls.
Pathophobia  Disease.
Patroiophobia  Heredity.
Parturiphobia  Childbirth
Peccatiphobia  Sinning, peccatophobia.
Pediculophobia  Lice.
Pedophobia Children.
Pediophobia  Dolls, paedophobia.
Peladophobia  Bald people.
Pellagraphobia  Catching pellagra.
Peniaphobia  Poverty, pheniophobia.
Pentheraphobia  Mother-in-law, novercaphobia.
Phagophobia  Eating.
Phalacrophobia  Becoming bald.
Phallophobia  Penis, esp erect.
Pharmacophobia  Drugs.
Phasmophobia  Ghosts.
Philemaphobia  Kissing, philematophobia. 
Phengophobia  Daylight.
Philophobia  Falling in love.
Philosophobia  Philosophy or philosophers.
Phobophobia  Fearing.
Phonophobia  Noise.
Photangiophobia  Pain the eyes caused by light, photalgia.
Photoaugliaphobia Glaring lights.
Photodysphoria Photophobia
Photophobia   Light; a painful sensitivity to light, photodysphoria.
Phronemophobia Thinking.
Phthiriophobia  Lice, pediculophobia.
Phthisiophobia  Tuberculosis, tuberculophobia.
Pingophobia  Choking.
Pinoyphobia  Filipinos or things Philippines.
Placophobia  Tombstones.
Plutophobia  Wealth.
Pluviphobia  Rain.
Pneumatiphobia  Spirits.
Pnigophobia Choking of being smothered, pnigerophobia.
Pocrescophobia  Gaining weight, obesophobia.
Pogonophobia  Beards.
Politicophobia  Dislike or fear of politicians.
Polyphobia  More than one fear.
Poinephobia  Punishment.
Ponophobia  Fatigue, esp. through overworking.
Porphyrophobia  Color purple.
Potamophobia  Rivers.
Potophobia  Alcohol.
Primeisodophobia Losing one's virginity.
Proctophobia  Rectal disease.
Prosophobia  Progress.
Proteinphobia  Protein foods.
Psellismophobia  Stuttering.
Psychophobia  Mind.
Psychrophobia  Cold temperatures.
Pteromerhanophobia  Flying.
Pteronophobia   Being tickled by feathers.
Pupaphobia  Puppets.
Pyrexiophobia  Fever.
Pyrophobia  Fire.

Pain  Algiophobia, ponophobia, odynophobia or odynephobia.
Paper  Papyrophobia.
Parasites  Parasitophobia.
Parents-in-law  Soceraphobia.
Pellagr   Pellagrophobia.
Penis, erect  Medorthophobia.
Penis, erect  Phallophobia.
Penis, thinking or seeing an erect  Ithyphallophobia.
Penis, losing an erection  Medomalacuphobia.
People  Anthropophobia.
People in general or society  Sociophobia.
People, deformed or bearing a deformed child  Teratophobia.
Philosophy  Philsosphobia.
Phobias  Phobophobia.
Physical love   Erotophobia
Pins and needles  Belonephobia.
Pins  Enetophobia.
Pinoy  Pinoyphobia.
Places, locked in an enclosed place  Cleithrophobia, cleisiophobia, or clithrophobia.
Places, dark or gloomy  Lygophobia.
Places, certain  Topophobia.
Places, crowded public  Agoraphobia.
Places, open high  Aeroacrophobia.
Places or things, narrow  Stenophobia.
Plant  Botanophobia.
Pleasure  Hedonophobia.
Poetry  Metrophobia.
Pointed object   Aichmophobia.
Poison  Iophobia.
Poisoned, being  Toxiphobia, toxophobia, or toxicophobia.
Poliomyelitis, contracting  Poliosophobia.
Politicians  Politicophobia.
Pope  Papaphobia.
Poverty   Peniaphobia.
Praise, receiving  Doxophobia.
Precipices  Cremnophobia.
Pregnancy   Maieusiohobia.
Prescribing of medicines by a doctor  Opiophobia.
Priests or sacred things  Hierophobia.
Progress  Prosophobia.
Property  Orthophobia.
Prostitutes or venereal disease  Cypridophobia, cypriphobia, cyprianophobia, or cyprinophobia.
Public speaking  Glossophobia.
Punishment or flogging  Mastigophobia.
Punishment by a rod, or severecriticism  Rhabdophobia.
Punishment  Poinephobia.
Puppets  Pupaphobia.
Purple  Porphyrophobia
R
Radiophobia  Radiation, x-rays.
Ranidaphobia  Frogs.
Rectophobia  Rectal disease.
Rhabdophobia  Being beaten.
Rhypophobia  Filth, defecation.
Rhytiphobia  Getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia  Dirt.
Russophobia Russians.

Rabies  Cynophobia, hydrophobophobia, hydrophobia, kynophobia, or lyssophobia.
Radiation or x-rays  Radiophobia.
Railroads or train travel  Siderodromophobia.
Rain  Ombrophobia, pluviophobia.
Rape  Virginitiphobia.
Razors  Xyrophobia.
Rat, great mole   Zemmiphobia.
Rectal disease  Rectophobia, proctophobia.
Red color or blushing  Erythrophobia, erytophobia or ereuthophobia.
Relatives  Syngenesophobia.
Religion or gods  Theophobia.
Religious ceremonies Teleophobia.
Reptiles  Herpetophobia.
Responsibility or duty, neglecting  Paralipophobia.
Responsibility  Hypengyophobia, hypegiaphobia.
Ridiculed, being  Catagelophobia, katagelophobia.
Riding in a car  Amaxophobia.
Right side, things on the right side of the body  Dextrophobia.
Rivers  Potamphobia, potamophobia.
Road travel or travel  Hodophobia.
Robbers or being robbed  Harpaxophobia.
Rooms, empty  Cenophobia, centophobia.
Rooms  Koinoniphobia.
Ruin  Atephobia.
Running water  Potamophobia.
Russians  Russophobia.

S
Samhainophobia  Halloween.
Sarmassophobia  Love play, malaxophobia.
Satanophobia  Satan.
Scabiophobia Scabies.
Scatophobia  Fecal matter.
Sciophobia   Shadows, sciaphobia.
Sclerophobia  Bad men, burglars.
Scoleciphobia  Worms, vermiphobia
Scolionophobia  School.
Scopophobia  Being looked at, scoptophobia.
Scotophobia  Darkness, achluophobia.
Scriptophobia Writing in public.
Selaphobia Light flashes.
Selachophobia   Sharks.
Selenophobia Moon.
Seplophobia  Decaying matter.
Sesquipedalophobia  Long words.
Sexophobia  Opposite sex, heterophobia.
Sextrandisphobias Opposite sex, heterophobia.
Siderodromophobia  Railroads or of traveling in trains.
Siderophobia  Stars.
Sinistrophobia Left-sided things or left-handed.
Sinophobia  Chinese or Chinese culture.
Sitophobia  Food, cipophobia, sitiophobia.
Snakephobia  Snakes, ophidiophobia.
Soceraphobia  Parents-in-law.
Social phobia Being evaluated negatively in social situations.
Sociophobia  Society or people in general.
Somniphobia  Sleep.
Sophophobia  Learning.
Soteriophobia  Dependence on others.
Spacephobia  Space.
Spectrophobia  Specters or phantoms.
Spermatophobia Germs, spermophobia.
Spheksophobia  Wasps.
Stasibasiphobia  Standing or walking, ambulophobia.
Staurophobia Crosses or the crucifix.
Stenophobia  Narrow things or places.
Stygiophobia   Hell, stigiophobia.
Successophobia  Success.
Suriphobia  Mice.
Symbolophobia Symbolism.
Symmetrophobia  Symmetry.
Syngenesophobia  Relatives.
Syphiliphobia   Syphilis, syphilophobia.

Sacred things or priests  Hierophobia.
Satan Satanophobia.
Scabies  Scabiophobia.
School, going to school  Didaskaleinophobia.
School  Scolionophobia.
Scientific terminology, complex  Hellenologophobia.
Scratches or being scratched  Amychophobia.
Sea or ocean Thalassophobia.
Self, seeing oneself in a mirror  Eisoptrophobia.
Self, personal odor   Bromidrosiphobia, bromidrophobia.
Self, being alone  Autophobia, eremophobia, eremiphobia or Isolophobia.
Self, being dirty  Automysophobia.
Self, being oneself  Autophobia.
Self, being seen or looked at  Scopophobia or Scoptophobia.
Self, being touched  Aphenphosmphobia.
Self with a vile odor  Autodysomophobia.
Semen Spermatophobia or Spermophobia.
Sermons  Homilophobia.
Sex  Genophobia.
Sex, opposite  Heterophobia, sexophobia.
Sexual abuse  Agraphobia, contreltophobia.
Sexual intercourse  Coitophobia, cypridophobia.
Sexual love or sexual questions  Erotophobia.
Sexual perversion  Paraphobia.
Shadows  Sciophobia or Sciaphobia.
Sharks  Selachophobia.
Sharp objects   Belonophobia.
Shellfish- Ostraconophobia.
Shock  Hormephobia.
Sinning, unpardonable  Enosiophobia, enissophobia.
Sin  Hamartophobia.
Single, staying single Anuptaphobia.
Sinning  Peccatophobia.
Sitting down  Kathisophobia.
Sitting  Cathisophobia, thaasophobia.
Situations, certain  Topophobia.
Skin disease  Dermatosiophobia.
Skin lesions  Dermatophobia.
Skin of animals, fur  Doraphobia.
Sleep Somniphobia.
Sleep or being hypnotized  Hypnophobia.
Slime  Blennophobia, myxophobia.
Slopes, steep  Bathmophobia.
Small things  Microphobia, mycrophobia, tapinophobia.
Smells or odors  Olfactophobia.
Smothered, being or choking  Pnigophobia, pnigerophobia.
Snakes  Ophidiophobia, snakephobia.
Snow  Chionophobia.
Social, negative criticism Social Phobia.
Society or people in general  Anthropophobia, sociophobia.
Solitude Monophobia, isolophobia.
Sounds  Acousticophobia.
Sourness  Acerophobia.
Space, closed or locked in an enclosed space  Cleithrophobia, cleisiophobia, clithrophobia.
Space, outer Spacephobia.
Spaces, confined  Claustrophobia.
Spaces, empty  Cenophobia, centophobia, kenophobia.
Spaces, open  Agoraphobia.
Speaking, trying to Glossophobia.
Speaking  Laliophobia, lalophobia.
Speaking aloud, voices or noises, or telephones  Phonophobia.
Speaking in public  Glossophobia.
Specters or ghosts  Spectrophobia.
Speed Tachophobia.
Spiders  Arachnephobia, arachnophobia.
Spirits  Pneumatiphobia.
Spontaneous human combustion  Autocombustoiphobia.
Stage fright Topophobia.
Stairs or climbing stairs Climacophobia.
Stairways   Bathmophobia.
Stand, inability to  Basiphobia, basophobia.
Standing upright  Basistasiphobia, basostasophobia.
Standing up  Stasiphobia.
Standing up and walking Stasibasiphobia.
Stared at, being Ophthalmophobia.
Stars  Siderophobia, astrophobia.
Staying single  Anuptaphobia.
Stealing  Cleptophobia, kleptophobia.
Step-father  Vitricophobia.
Steep slopes  Bathmophobia.
Step-mother Novercaphobia.
Stings  Cnidophobia.
Stooping  Kyphophobia.
Stories or myths or false statements Mythophobia.
Strangers or foreigners Xenophobia.
Streets, crossing streets  Dromophobia.
Streets  Agyrophobia.
String  Linonophobia.
Storm, thunder  Brontophobia.
Stuttering  Psellismophobia.
Success Successophobia.
Suffering and disease  Panthophobia.
Sun or sunlight  Heliophobia.
Sunshine or daylight  Phengophobia.
Surgeon's fear of operating  Ergasiophobia
Surgical operations Tomophobia.
Swallowing or eating  Phagophobia.
Symbolism  Symbolophobia.
Symmetry  Symmetrophobia.
Syphillis Luiphobia, syphilophobia.

T
Tabophobia  Wasting sickness.
Tachophobia Speed.
Taeniophobia Tapeworms, Teniophobia.
Tapinophobia  Small things.
Taurophobia Bulls.
Technophobia Technology.
Teleophobia  Dislike and rejection of teleology.
Telephonophobia Using the telephone.
Teratophobia  Monsters or giving birth to a monster.
Testophobia Taking tests.
Tetanophobia Lockjaw, tetanus.
Teutophobia  Germany, its people and culture, Teutonophobia.
Textophobia Certain fabrics.
Thaasophobia Sitting.
Thalassophobia  Sea.
Thanatophobia Dying, thantophobia.
Thanatosomniphobia Dying in one's sleep, thantosomniphobia
Theatrophobia Theaters.
Theologicophobia Theology.
Theophobia  God.
Thermophobia  Heat.
Tocophobia Pregnancy or childbirth.
Tomophobia  Surgical operations.
Tonitrophobia Thunder, tonitruphobia.
Topophobia  Stage fright, certain places.
Toxiphobia   Poisoning, toxicophobia.
Traumatophobia  War or physical injury.
Tremophobia  Trembling.
Trichonophobia  Trichinosis, trichophobia, trichopathophobia.
Trichopathophobia, Trichophobia, Hypertrichophobia,Chaetophobia Hair,
Tridecaphobia  Number 13, triskaidekaphobia.
Tropophobia Moving or making changes.
Trypanophobia Injections.
Tuberculophobia Tuberculosis, phthisiophobia.
Tyrannophobia  Tyrants.

Tapeworms  Taeniophobia.
Taste  Geumaphobia, geumophobia.
Technology  Technophobia.
Teenagers  Ephebiphobia.
Teeth  Odontophobia.
Telephones, noises, loud voices  Phonophobia.
Telephones  Telephonophobia.
Termites  Isopterophobia.
Tests, taking Testophobia.
Tetanus, lockjaw Tetanophobia.
Theaters  Theatrophobia.
Theology  Theologicophobia.
Things, many  Polyphobia.
Things, large Megalophobia.
Things or places, narrow  Stenophobia.
Things, small  Microphobia, mycrophobia.
Thinking  Phronemophobia.
Thunder  Ceraunophobia.
Thunder and lightning  Astraphobia, astrapophobia, brontophobia or keraunophobia.
Tickled by feathers or feathers  Pteronophobia.
Tied or bound up Merinthophobia.
Time or clocks  Chronophobia.
Toads  Bufonophobia.
Tombstones  Placophobia.
Tornadoes and hurricanes  Lilapsophobia.
Touched, being touched  Aphenphosmphobia, haphephobia, haptephobia, chiraptophobia.
Trains, railroads or train travel  Siderodromophobia.
Travel or road travel  Hodophobia.
Trees  Dendrophobia.
Trembling  Tremophobia.
Trichinosis  Trichinophobia.
Tuberculosis  Phthisiophobia, tuberculophobia.
Tyrants Tyrannophobia.
U
Uranophobia  Heaven.
Urophobia  Urinating.

Ugliness  Cacophobia.
Undressing in front of someone  Dishabillophobia.
Urine or urinating Urophobia.

V
Vaccinophobia   Vaccines and vaccination.
Venustraphobia Beautiful women.
Verbophobia Words.
Verminophobia Germs.
Vermiphobia   Worms, scoleciphobia.
Vestiphobia Clothing.
Virginitiphobia Rape.
Virtricophobia Step-father.

Vaccination  Vaccinophobia.
Vegetables  Lachanophobia.
Venereal disease or prostitutes  Cypridophobia, cypriphobia, cyprianophobia, cyprinophobia.
Ventriloquist's dummy  Automatonophobia.
Vertigo or dizziness when looking down Illyngophobia.
Virginity, losing one's  Primeisodophobia.
Virgins or young girls  Parthenophobia.
Vision, double vision, diplopia  Diplophobia.
Voices, speaking aloud or telephones Phonophobia.
Voids or empty spaces Kenophobia.
Vomiting secondary to airsickness  Aeronausiphobia.
Vomiting Emetophobia.

W
Wiccaphobia Witches and witchcraft.

Waits, long  Macrophobia.
Walking, standing up  Stasibasiphobia.
Walking  Ambulophobia, basistasiphobia, basostasophobia.
Washing  Abultophobia.
Wasps  Spheksophobia.
Water  Hydrophobia.
Waves or wave like motions  Cymophobia, kymophobia.
Wax statues  Automatonophobia.
Weakness  Asthenophobia.
Wealth Plutophobia.
Weapons, nuclear  Nucleomituphobia.
Weight, gaining  Obesophobia, pocrescophobia.
Wet dreams Oneirogmophobia.
Whirlpools or dizzyness  Dinophobia.
White color  Leukophobia.
Wild animals  Agrizoophobia.
Wind  Ancraophobia, anemophobia.
Wine Oenophobia.
Witches, witchcraft  Wiccaphobia.
Women  Gynephobia, gynophobia.
Women, beautiful  Caligynephobia, venstraphobia.
Wooden objects or forests  Xylophobia.
Words  Logophobia, verbophobia.
Words, long  Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, Sesquipedalophobia.
Work  Ergophobia, ponophobia.
Worms  Scoleciphobia.
Worms infestation  Helminthophobia.
Wounds, injury Traumatophobia.
Wrinkles, getting  Rhytiphobia.
Writing  Graphophobia.
Writing in public  Scriptophobia.

X
Xanthophobia Color yellow or word yellow.
Xenoglossophobia Foreigners languages.
Xenophobia  Foreigners and strange things.
Xerophobia  Dryness and dry places.
Xylophobia Wooden objects; forests.

X-rays or radiation  Radiophobia.

Y
Yellow Xanthophobia

Z
Zelophobia Jealousy.
Zeusphobia God or gods.
Zeusophobia Fear of fate.
Zemmiphobia Great mole rat.
Zoophobia Animals.

NUMBERS
  5  Pentaphobia
6  Sixophobia
 8  Octophobia.
10  Decaphobia
13  Triskadekaphobia, triskaidekaphobia, tridecaphobia

PHOBIA FACTOIDS
% of U.S. population with phobias, over the course of a lifetime and usually more than one specific phobia: 10-13%
Any object or situation: 10-13%
Animals: 5.7%
Heights: 5.3%
Blood: 4.5%
Enclosed spaces: 4.2%
Flyin: 3.5%
Water: 3.2%
Being alone: 3.1%
Storms: 2.9%
(Adapted from Curtis et al., 1998 from Abnormal Psychology, 4th Ed. 2001)

Phobias and panic disorders affect as many as 1 in 10 people, costing tens of billions of dollars in treatment and lost productivity. In the U.S. about 30 percent of "heart attack" presentations to emergency services are actually suffering panic attacks. (Discover. April 2002)

In a published study in the Cell journal (2002), Xavier Estivil, a molecular geneticist, contented that nearly every social phobia and panic disorder is rooted in a single stretch of a duplicated region of about 60 genes. (The Sum of All Fears. Discover. April 2002)

Genetics may be involved. Phobics tend to have at least one phobic parent.

Phobias tend to be more intense when depressed.

Phobias arise from irrational fears. A study shows a person has an average of 66,000 thoughs per day, and two-thirds of them are negative. A Wisconsin research study shows that of things worried about, 40 percent never occur, 30 percent are from things in the past, 12 percent are needless health concerns, 10 percent are petty, and only 8 percent are legitimate concerns. (Quick Fix for Everyday Fears. Michael Clarkson. MJF Books, NY)

Virtual Reality (VR) in Phobia Treatment
Virtual reality equipment if already being used in to treat certain phobias. Computer games have become sophisticated enough to move into clinical mainstream, providing VR worlds for a range of phobias eliciting responses that could be used for controlled treatment. (Computer Games Can Treat Phobias. Will Knight. October 2003. <http://www.newscientitst.com/article.ns?id=dn4292>

Nomophobia !
A recent addition to the list of fears in this phobia-laden world, nomophobia—fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Some suggest it could affect 53% of cell phone users. In 2002, it was reported there were about 1 billion cell phones in use, and by 2009, an estimated 2.6 billion in use. With a world population at about 6.6 billion (July 2007), nomophobia could well top the all-time list of phobias.

Ten Most Common Phobias
1. Arachnophobia - possibly the most common, reported in 50% of women and 10% of men.
2. Social phobia (social anxiety disorder)
3. Aerophobia (fear of flying)
4. Agoraphobia (fear of public places or situations)
5. Claustrophobia (fear of confined spaces)
6. Acrophobia (fear of heights)
7. Emetophobia (fear of vomiting)
8. Carcinophobia (fear of cancer)
9. Brontophobia (fear of thunderstormsz)
10. Necrophobia (fear of death or dead things)