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Animal type
Phobias relating to animals, such as the fear of spiders (arachnophobia) and the fear of snakes (ophidiophobia), are considered animal type.
Natural environment type
A phobia falls into this category if the fear is cued by objects in the natural environment, such as heights (acrophobia), or water (aquaphobia) or even thunderstorms (astraphobia). This subtype generally has a childhood onset. If a person has the fear of water they are more likely to have another fear, like the fear of storms. These situations may be dangerous, so mild to moderate fear can be adaptive. If the fear is just a passing fear, such as being worried or cautious in dangerous or risky areas, it is not a phobia. These fears have to be persistent and cause distress or impairment. For example, avoiding a boat ride or a trip for fear of a storm.
Situational type
This kind of phobia includes those like the fear of small confined spaces (claustrophobia) and being "afraid of the dark," (nyctophobia).
Blood/injection/injury type
This situational phobia consists of a persistent, debilitating fear of blood (seeing it or expelling it, referred to as hemophobia), bodily injury of any type, and injection of one’s own body with a needle. Many people may have mild fears of these types of situations, but those with a blood/injection/injury type situational phobia are seriously impaired when even a thought of these situations occur. They may avoid certain situations, places, and careers in order to avoid their fear. A panic-type reaction can be triggered by the sight or even thought of any type of blood/injection/injury image. This reaction can be in the form of dizziness, fainting, etc. There is nothing physically wrong with a person with this type of phobia, but they still have these physical reactions. Generally, phobias cause distress, impairment, and are excessive of an expected response to a particular situation.
Other
Like the fear of the number 13 (triskaidekaphobia), and the fear of clowns (coulrophobia).
Acrophobia, Altophobia — fear of heights.
Agoraphobia — fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
Algophobia — fear of pain.
Androphobia — fear of males.
Anthropomorphobia — fear or dislike of anthropomorphic traits.
Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia — fear of water
Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia — fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
Autophobia — fear of being alone.
Aviophobia, Aviatophobia — fear of flying.
Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia — fear of microbes and bacteria.
Bathophobia — fear of depth.
Cibophobia,Sitophobia — aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
Claustrophobia — fear of confined spaces.
Clinophobia — fear of going to bed or falling asleep.
Coulrophobia — fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia — fear of dentists and dental procedures.
Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder — a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
Emetophobia — fear of vomiting.
Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia — fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
Erotophobia — fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
Erythrophobia — pathological blushing.
Genophobia, Coitophobia — fear of sexual intercourse.
Glossophobia — fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
Gymnophobia — fear of nudity.
Heliophobia — fear of sunlight.
Hemophobia, Haemophobia — fear of blood.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — fear of the number 666.
Hoplophobia — fear of firearms (guns).
Lalophobia, Laliophobia — fear of speaking.
Ligyrophobia — fear of loud noises.
Mysophobia — fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
Necrophobia — fear of death, the dead.
Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia — fear of newness, novelty.
Nosophobia — fear of contracting a disease
Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia — fear of darkness.
Osmophobia, Olfactophobia — fear of smells.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia — fear of Friday the 13th.
Panphobia — fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it
Pyrophobia, — fear of fire.
Radiophobia — fear of radiation or X-rays.
Sociophobia — fear/dislike of society or people in general (see also "sociopath").
Taphophobia — fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
Technophobia — fear of technology (see also Luddite).
Tokophobia — fear of childbirth.
Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia — fear of the number 13.
Trypanophobia, Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia — fear of needles, injections or of pointed objects.
Xenophobia — fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
Zoophobias
Apiphobia, Melissophobia — fear of bees.
Arachnophobia — fear of arachnids, usually specific to spiders.
Chiroptophobia — fear of bats.
Cynophobia — fear of dogs
Entomophobia — fear of insects.
Equinophobia, Hippophobia — fear of horses.
Herpetophobia — fear of reptiles.
Musophobia — fear of mice and/or rats.
Ophidiophobia — fear of snakes.
Ornithophobia — fear of birds.
Zoophobia — a generic term for animal phobias
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