We have occasionally turned many of the more than 400 phobias into content. Now we are here with the content where we have gathered the phobias together.
In this content, you can see different phobias and say, “Wow, is anyone afraid of this too?” You can ask yourself the question.
“Is there life without love?” There is a phobia that will disrupt the opinion of those who say. That is “philophobia”.
People who have been in love before, but have had an unhappy relationship, begin to lose their faith in love by having difficulty establishing emotional bonds when they exit these relationships. This phobia, which begins with moving away from bonding, brings fear along with a feeling of panic.
If you want to learn other underlying causes or if you think you have philophobia and want to get rid of it, you can read our content for the treatment method.
While we are talking about love, it is impossible not to mention “pistantrophobia”.
The extreme feeling of not being able to trust someone again after disappointments is defined as pistanthrophobia. Many people with this phobia acquire their fear after negative relationships. Of course, this fear does not only apply to dating.
In addition to symptoms such as heart palpitations, which are common in other phobias, people with pistanthrophobia also experience some behavioral problems such as extreme shyness. It also has many symptoms such as impulsive behavior.
If pistanthrophobia has caught your attention and you are extremely afraid of trusting someone, you can take a look at our content below.
Let alone love, there are even those who run away when they see a woman. Gynophobia is the equivalent of the fear of women.
Being afraid of women is more than just jokes between friends. People with this rare phobia are very afraid of women. While there are people who never want to meet women, there are also people who surround their homes with fences to avoid seeing women.
Below is our content where you can examine the causes of gynophobia as well as the interesting story of Callitxe Nzamwita, who lived in fear of women in Rwanda in Africa. If you want to make sure whether you have such a fear, you can find its symptoms in our content.
While some are addicted to touch, others are afraid of being touched. The phobia of these people is hahephobia.
It is quite difficult for those with haphephobia, who are afraid not only of being touched but also of touching. This phobia, which almost alienates the person from life when it reaches advanced levels, can be against a single gender or general.
Although the cause of fear is not fully known, it is predicted that childhood traumas may cause this fear.
You can review our content below for more detailed information about haphephobia, which needs to be treated before it is too late.
There are all kinds of people. While some people avoid people, others never want to be alone. Monophobia is also the name of the fear of loneliness.
Many people in the world have monophobia, that is, an extreme fear of being alone. These people, who are afraid of being ostracized, turn people into protection shields.
If you want to learn the causes and symptoms of monophobia in detail, here is our relevant content:
Everyone can be afraid of the dark to some extent, but for those with nyctophobia, the fear of the dark, the situation is not that normal.
Fear of the dark at a young age may seem normal to many people. However, it is quite problematic that this continues to increase in later ages. Of course, nyctophobia, which negatively affects life such as not being able to stay in a dark environment or even sleeping in the dark, has different reasons.
If you are afraid of the dark or have a child who is afraid of the dark, you can learn what you need to do and examine the symptoms of this phobia closely by taking a look at our content below.
Claustrophobia is the fear of closed spaces that is as frightening as being in the dark.
If closed spaces such as elevators, airplanes, closed rooms and caves take you away, you may have claustrophobia. There are different reasons for claustrophobia, which begins in childhood and adolescence and quickly progresses to anxiety disorder.
Claustrophobia, which has serious symptoms such as heart attack and panic attacks, can sometimes even result in death. You can examine claustrophobia in full detail.
If you feel extremely uncomfortable, have heart palpitations, or have a dry mouth every time the phone rings, you may have phoneophobia.
Telenophobia, one of the social anxiety disorders; It can be defined as not wanting to answer the phone, feeling uneasy about calling someone, and feeling afraid while experiencing all these.
This is not the same as not wanting to pick up the phone and talk when we are bored or busy.
So, “I wonder if I’m a telophobia too?” If you want to be sure, you can read the symptoms in our relevant content. Let us also point out that the number of people with this phobia is quite high.
Fear of relatives whose name you have difficulty even saying: syngenesophobia.
While some are very attached to their relatives, for some, the word “relative” is a concept to run away from. People in this second situation also fall into the group of syngenesophobia, that is, phobia of relatives.
If you don’t even want to hear the names of your relatives while avoiding being exposed to all kinds of questions about your future, you can say “Welcome” syngenesophobia.
We leave the details and treatment methods below.
If you feel like fainting from fear when you see large bodies of water, do not immediately think of rabies, you may be experiencing thalassophobia.
Thalassophobia, which can also be said as the fear of the ocean; It is the fear experienced by people who are intolerant and afraid of large water bodies such as oceans, seas, pools and lakes. If you don’t know how to swim, of course, unknown depths like the ocean may scare you, but things are a little different in this phobia.
If you feel like fainting when you see a large body of water, even in a movie or photograph, you may have thalassophobia. However, there are other conditions for diagnosing this phobia. For those who are curious, our content is:
Could those who have coulrophobia, that is, the fear of clowns, be right?
Don’t laugh, but the number of people looking for a place to escape when they see a clown is quite high. “How can one be afraid of an element of entertainment?” If you say so, you should know that there are many different reasons for this.
There are many reasons, from parents forcing their children to play with clowns to killer clown characters in movies, and some’s brains cannot resist this fear. You can agree with people who have phobias when they see clowns that scare them when they say they will be cute.
Our related content, which explains coulrophobia in detail from the history of clown phobia to its causes:
Fear of speaking to crowds: glossophobia.
If you don’t know what to do out of fear when you have to be a speaker at a meeting or a seminar, you may have glossophobia.
People feeling inadequate and feeling embarrassed are just some of the situations of this phobia. Of course, just like every fear, there is a cure for this too. Let’s get you on stage and just focus on your speech, not the people. Relevant content for other methods:
“Oh, I can’t stand the sight of blood.” The phobia of those who say is hematophobia.
If you feel like fainting when you get cut on your hand, get injured, or bleed while getting an injection, it means you have hematophobia. Not only seeing blood vividly or feeling it on you, but even seeing it on television triggers your phobia.
One symptom among the symptoms of hematophobia distinguishes it from other phobias. If you want to learn this detail and dive into the history of the fear of blood, our content is where you know it.
Some phobias are more common than others.
Founder of New York-based Cognitive Behavioral Psychology, Dr. Dena Rabinowitz talked about the most common phobias she sees in her patients in an interview we did. When he heard about the phobia he saw in one of Rabinowitz’s patients, he said, “No more!” We are sure you will say. Curiously, “I wonder what he might be afraid of?” If so, log in to our content immediately.
There are various techniques to get rid of your phobias.
No matter what phobia you have, it is possible to get rid of it. Virtual environment is also used among the techniques used to get rid of phobias, from systematic desensitization to exposure.
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