Phobias and Traumas, List of A To Z Phobias, 62 Types of Phobias

Phobias and Traumas, List of A To Z Phobias, 62 Types of Phobias

Phobias and Traumas. Picture these situations as vividly as you can, as we speak. Take your time and don’t rush into them. You can also do them at different times and write down your experiences with each manifested situation.

Situation 1:

• You’re about to go on stage and deliver your first public speech to an audience of 500 people.
• You knew this was going to happen and have been preparing for over a week now.
• You have this.
• Or do you?

Situation 2:

• You’re having a conversation with friends, the usual stuff.
• You’re sipping on your coffee and are enjoying your time with them.
• Then suddenly, someone touches a topic that’s sensitive to you.
• It jogs back memories from your past, memories that you don’t want to re-visit, and ones that you’ve hidden from others.
• Wait, you thought you were over them. Or are you?

Situation 3:

• You’re taking the elevator to the 22nd floor of this high-rise glass building.
• The elevator is all fancy.
• It’s made of glass and lets you look at everything around and beneath you.
• Only, you don’t want to look.
• Check your palms.
• Are they sweaty?
• Did you skip a beat during any of the situations?
• What about your breath?
• Are you breathing faster than before the visualization?

Most of us become anxious when we are forced to face situations that are outside our comfort zone.

• Now, these situations might be anything, from the ones we’ve listed above to something that might be more personal and only known to you.
• But most of us are vulnerable to triggers that bring back unwanted thoughts; fears, traumas, and phobias included.
• These memories can bring back pent-up emotions that have been suppressed for a long.
• They can consume you for no immediate and logical reason.

These triggers are enough to let anxiety take over.

• If something as random as a simple conversation or an everyday routine can fill up the tank of anxiety in you, then it shouldn’t be ignored anymore.
• If anxiety is taking over your life, then the only way you can truly start healing is to turn around and confront your demons.
• Before you start looking for treatments (and we don’t mean to undermine the effect of medications on anxiety), take a moment to pause.
• Pause and look at the situation that is causing the anxiety.
• Is it fear, trauma, or phobia you didn’t realize you had or have left unaddressed for long?

Anxiety Doesn’t Exist in Isolation

• While it is tempting to think of it this way and distance it, it simply isn’t true.
• There is always a bigger picture, several perhaps, and there are all connected.
• Take time to reflect on the issues that are floating around and inside your subconscious mind.
• Tug at the issues and see what comes of it.
• You might be surprised to unravel a host of emotions and pent-up memories that might ultimately lead you to the peace you’ve been wanting.

Re-visit and visualize the very situations that act as triggers.

• Observe yourself and your reactions to the situation.
• Make peace from the fact that whatever the fear, this time it isn’t happening for real.
• Think of this as a chance to re-write those situations to give it the ending you’d like it to have.
• Your anxiety has a voice.
• Listen to it.

Here is an alphabetical list of phobias, from A to Z:

A= phobias

• 1. Ablutophobia – Fear of bathing or washing.
• 2. Acrophobia – Fear of heights.
• 3. Aerophobia – Fear of flying.
• 4. Agoraphobia – Fear of open spaces or crowds.
• 5. Aichmophobia – Fear of needles or pointed objects.
• 6. Ailurophobia – Fear of cats.
• 7. Algophobia – Fear of pain.
• 8. Androphobia – Fear of men.
• 9. Anthophobia – Fear of flowers.
• 10. Arachnophobia – Fear of spiders.

B= phobias

• 11. Bibliophobia – Fear of books.
• 12. Botanophobia – Fear of plants.
• 13. Brontophobia – Fear of thunder and lightning.

C= phobias

• 14. Cynophobia – Fear of dogs.
• 15. Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces.
• 16. Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns.
• 17. Cyberphobia – Fear of computers or technology.

D= phobias

• 18. Dentophobia – Fear of dentists.
• 19. Didaskaleinophobia – Fear of going to school.
• 20. Dromophobia – Fear of crossing streets.

E= phobias

• 21. Entomophobia – Fear of insects.
• 22. Eosophobia – Fear of dawn or daylight.
• 23. Ephebiphobia – Fear of teenagers.
• 24. Ergophobia – Fear of work.

G= phobias

• 25. Gamophobia – Fear of marriage.
• 26. Glossophobia – Fear of public speaking.
• 27. Gynophobia – Fear of women.

H= phobias

• 28. Hemophobia – Fear of blood.
• 29. Herpetophobia – Fear of reptiles.
• 30. Hydrophobia – Fear of water.
• 31. Hypochondria – Fear of illness.

I= phobias

• 32. Iatrophobia – Fear of doctors.
• 33. Insectophobia – Fear of insects.
• 34. Iophobia – Fear of poison.

K= phobias

• 35. Katsaridaphobia – Fear of cockroaches.
• 36. Keraunophobia – Fear of thunder.
• 37. Kinemortophobia – Fear of zombies.

L= phobias

• 38. Lepidopterophobia – Fear of butterflies.
• 39. Lilapsophobia – Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
• 40. Lygophobia – Fear of darkness.

M= phobias

• 41. Musophobia – Fear of mice or rats.
• 42. Mysophobia – Fear of dirt or germs.

N= phobias

• 43. Necrophobia – Fear of death or dead things.
• 44. Nomophobia – Fear of being without a mobile phone.

O= phobias

• 45. Ophidiophobia – Fear of snakes.
• 46. Ornithophobia – Fear of birds.

P= phobias

• 47. Pediophobia – Fear of dolls.
• 48. Philophobia – Fear of love or emotional attachment.
• 59. Pogonophobia – Fear of beards.

R= phobias

• 50. Trypanophobia – Fear of injections or needles.
• 51. Rhabdophobia – Fear of being severely punished.

S= phobias

• 52. Samhainophobia – Fear of Halloween.
• 53. Social Phobia – Fear of social situations.
• 54. Somniphobia – Fear of sleep.

T= phobias

• 55. Taphophobia – Fear of being buried alive.
• 56. Technophobia – Fear of technology.
• 57. Thanatophobia – Fear of death.
• 58. Tokophobia – Fear of childbirth.

U= phobias

• 59. Uranophobia – Fear of heaven.

V= phobias

• 60. Venustraphobia – Fear of beautiful women.

X= phobias

• 61. Xenophobia – Fear of strangers or foreigners.

Z= phobias

• 62. Zoophobia – Fear of animals.