Presented by: Juluat, Arriane Joy
I- OPSDIA
At the end of the Presentation,
you will understand and learn
about:
Definition of Phobia
Types of Phobia
Symptoms Of Phobia
Common Phobias
Overcoming Phobias
My Top Ten Phobias
Psychiatrists define a phobia as a type of anxiety disorder that
consists of a morbid and irrational fear of a specific object or situation
associated with severe anxiety, and recognized by the subject to be
unreasonable or unwarranted. It is more than fear, however, for the feared
object or situation must be avoided, or can be endured only with marked
distress, because of the anxiety response or panic attack that it almost
invariably provokes. This condition is also known as angst
Phobias are IRRATIONAL, meaning that they interfere with
one's everyday life or daily routine. For example, if your fear of high
places prevents you from crossing necessary bridges to get to work,
that fear is irrational. If your fears keep you from enjoying life or even
preoccupy your thinking so that you are unable to work, or sleep, or do
the things you wish to do, then it becomes irrational.
Other words that are synonyms of the word phobia
include: fear, hatred, dread, anxiety, aversion, panic, fright, terror,
torment, scare, terrify, angst, disgust, abhorrence, antipathy,
repulsion, and revulsion.
1. Specific phobias (also known as
simple phobia or isolated phobia).
2. Social phobias (social anxiety
disorders; although when they occur in
children, they are known as avoidant
disorders).
The essential feature of a specific phobia is
a persistent, irrational fear of, and compelling
desire to avoid, specific objects or situations. This
kind of phobia is characterized by a relatively
specific fear of an object or situation. The range of
stimuli that may elicit a fearful response is
narrower than in other phobic disorders and such
phobias are sometimes also referred to as simple
phobias.
•animal type - cued by animals or insects
•natural environment type - cued by objects in the
environment, such as storms, heights, or water
•blood-injection-injury type - cued by witnessing some
invasive medical procedure
•situational type - cued by a specific situation, such as
public transportation, tunnels, bridges, elevators, flying,
driving, or enclosed spaces
•other type - cued by other stimuli than the above, such
as of choking, vomiting, or contracting an illness
Individuals who have social phobias have
excessive anxieties in social situations; such as,
parties,
meetings,
interviews,
restaurants,
making complaints, writing in public, eating in
restaurants, and interacting with the opposite
sex, strangers, and aggressive individuals. They
often fear situations in which they believe they
are being observed and evaluated, such as
eating, drinking, speaking in public, driving, etc.
Unlike specific or simple phobias, which tend
to diminish as the individual grows into puberty and
young adulthood, social phobias persist as one gets
older. Many such individuals have traits that interfere
with social and marital adjustment. Some have
ongoing
problems
with
generalized
anxiety,
dependence, authority, and depression.
As
defined
by
the
American
Psychiatric
Association, “Agoraphobia is the fear of being alone in any
place or situation from which it would be difficult or help
unattainable should the need arise.” Most people will
develop this disorder after experiencing an intense panic
attack in a situation such as being in a room full of people
or on a busy street. These attacks are random and the
person fears another. The person eventually becomes
afraid to leave their own home. This is the most
debilitating of the phobias.
Phobias are emotional but cause the body to exhibit
physical symptoms.
Feelings of panic and dread or terror
Recognition that the fear is abnormal
Reactions that are involuntary and out of control
Rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, trembling,
sweating, intense anxiety, and an
Overwhelming desire to leave the situation
Extreme measures taken to avoid the feared object or
situation
Impaired ability to function at normal tasks due to fear
Taking usual measure to avoid the cause of your fear
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing.
Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
Acousticophobia- Fear of noise.
Acrophobia- Fear of heights.
Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places.
Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens.
Altophobia- Fear of heights.
Amaxophobia- Fear of riding in a car.
Androphobia- Fear of men.
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of
flowers.
Anthropophobia- Fear of people or
society.
Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut
butter sticking to the roof of the
mouth.
Arachnephobia or ArachnophobiaFear of spiders.
Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of
thunder and
lightning.(Ceraunophobia,
Keraunophobia)
Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection.
Atychiphobia- Fear of failure.
Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.
Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty.
Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of
oneself.
Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of
flying.
Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.
Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria.
Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets.
Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks.
Barophobia- Fear of gravity.
Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand. Fear
of walking or falling.
Bathmophobia- Fear of stairs or steep slopes.
Bathophobia- Fear of depth.
Batophobia- Fear of heights or being close to high
buildings.
Batrachophobia- Fear of amphibians, such as frogs,
newts, salamanders, etc.
Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles.
(Aichmophobia)
Bibliophobia- Fear of books.
Blennophobia- Fear of slime.
Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.
Botanophobia- Fear of plants.
Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body
smells.
Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning.
Bufonophobia- Fear of toads.
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.
Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women.
Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and
low places.
Catoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors.
Chirophobia- Fear of hands.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of
money.
Cibophobia- Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)
Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- Fear of being
locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
Cymophobia or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or
wave like motions.
Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.
Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels
movements.
Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner
conversations.
Dementophobia- Fear of insanity.
Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons.
Demophobia- Fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
Dendrophobia- Fear of trees.
Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions.
Dermatosiophobia or Dermatophobia or
Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin disease.
Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the right side of the
body.
Diabetophobia- Fear of diabetes.
Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school.
Dikephobia- Fear of justice.
Doraphobia- Fear of fur or skins of animals.
Doxophobia- Fear of expressing opinions or of
receiving praise.
Dromophobia- Fear of crossing streets.
Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch.
Dysmorphophobia- Fear of deformity.
Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.
Ecophobia- Fear of home.
surroundings.(Domatophobia, Oikophobia)
Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself
in a mirror.
Electrophobia- Fear of electricity.
Elurophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia)
Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting.
Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds.
Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
Epistaxiophobia- Fear of nosebleeds.
Equinophobia- Fear of horses.
Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of lonliness.
Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing.
Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or functioning. 2)
Surgeon's fear of operating.
Ergophobia- Fear of work.
Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.
Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia.
Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia- 1)
Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing. 3) Red.
Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear of
fever.
Felinophobia- Fear of cats. (Ailurophobia,
Elurophobia, Galeophobia, Gatophobia)
Francophobia- Fear of France or French culture.
(Gallophobia, Galiophobia)
Frigophobia- Fear of cold or cold
things.(Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia,
Psychrophobia)
Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
Hemophobia or Hemaphobia or Hematophobia- Fear of
blood.
Heterophobia- Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of long
words.
Hodophobia- Fear of road travel.
Hominophobia- Fear of men.
Hylophobia- Fear of forests.
Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility.
Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats.
Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France
or French culture. (Francophobia)
Gamophobia- Fear of marriage.
Geliophobia- Fear of laughter.
Geniophobia- Fear of chins.
Genophobia- Fear of sex.
Genuphobia- Fear of knees.
Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or
Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing
bridges.
Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or
German culture.
Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of
growing old.
Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of
taste.
Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public
or of trying to speak.
Gnosiophobia- Fear of knowledge.
Graphophobia- Fear of writing or
handwriting.
Gymnophobia- Fear of nudity.
Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of
women.
Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of
doctors.
Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.
Ideophobia- Fear of ideas.
Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or feeling dizzy
when looking down.
Iophobia- Fear of poison.
Insectophobia - Fear of insects.
Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being alone.
Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects that
eat wood.
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.
Judeophobia- Fear of Jews.
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything
new, novelty.
Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.
Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty spaces.
Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of
thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia,
Astrapophobia)
Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear of
movement or motion.
Kleptophobia- Fear of stealing.
Koinoniphobia- Fear of rooms.
Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.
Koniophobia- Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)
Kosmikophobia- Fear of cosmic phenomenon.
Kymophobia- Fear of waves. (Cymophobia)
Kynophobia- Fear of rabies.
Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.
Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
Leprophobia or Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.
Leukophobia- Fear of the color white.
Levophobia- Fear of things to the left side of the
body.
Ligyrophobia- Fear of loud noises.
Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and hurricanes.
Limnophobia- Fear of lakes.
Linonophobia- Fear of string.
Liticaphobia- Fear of lawsuits.
Lockiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers.
Logophobia- Fear of words.
Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis.
Lutraphobia- Fear of otters.
Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.
Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
Melanophobia- Fear of the color black.
Microphobia- Fear of small things.
Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of being
contaminated with dirt or germs.
Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.
Molysmophobia or Molysomophobia- Fear of
dirt or contamination.
Monophobia- Fear of solitude or being alone.
Monopathophobia- Fear of definite disease.
Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.
Mottephobia- Fear of moths.
Musophobia or Muriphobia- Fear of mice.
Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to
mushrooms.
Myctophobia- Fear of darkness.
Myrmecophobia- Fear of ants.
Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or
false statements.
Myxophobia- Fear of slime. (Blennophobia)
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead things.
Neophobia- Fear of anything new.
Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark wooded areas or of forests at night
Nyctophobia- Fear of the dark or of night.
Obesophobia- Fear of gaining
weight.(Pocrescophobia)
Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or
mobs.
Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes.
(Snakephobia)
Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being
stared at.
Ouranophobia or UranophobiaFear of heaven.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of
everything.
Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the
13th.
Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.
Pediophobia- Fear of dolls.
Pedophobia- Fear of children.
Peladophobia- Fear of bald people.
Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking medicine.
Phasmophobia- Fear of ghosts.
Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or being
in love.
Phobophobia- Fear of phobias.
Pneumatiphobia- Fear of spirits.
Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of flying.
Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely
punished or beaten by a rod, or of being
severely criticized. Also fear of
magic.(wand)
Rhypophobia- Fear of defecation.
Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles.
Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.
Russophobia- Fear of Russians.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.
Scotophobia- Fear of darkness.
(Achluophobia)
Scriptophobia- Fear of writing in public.
Selachophobia- Fear of sharks.
Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains, railroads
or train travel.
Sinistrophobia- Fear of things to the left or
left-handed.
Snakephobia- Fear of snakes.
(Ophidiophobia)
Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated
negatively in social situations.
Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in
general.
Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.
Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of hell.
Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
Tachophobia- Fear of speed.
Taphephobia Taphophobia- Fear of being
buried alive or of cemeteries.
Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea.
Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of
death or dying.
Tonitrophobia- Fear of thunder.
Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.
Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear
of heaven.
Urophobia- Fear of urine or
urinating.
Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.
Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful
women.
Verbophobia- Fear of words.
Verminophobia- Fear of germs.
Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing.
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.
Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and
witchcraft.
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or
the word yellow.
Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign
languages.
Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or
foreigners.
Xerophobia- Fear of dryness.
Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects. 2)
Forests.
Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.
Zeusophobia- Fear of God.
Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat.
Zoophobia- Fear of animals.
According to the American Psychiatric Association, phobias are treatable. Treatment
can be through medication, behavior modification, or cognitive-behavioral therapy. In behavior
modification, which is effective with those who experience object or situational phobias such as
fear of flying (pterygophobia), a trained therapist assists the person to confront his fears and to
control his physical reaction. This may done through a form of deep breathing or exposure
therapy in which the person is gradually exposed to his fear and shown coping skills.
Medications can be added in the treatment of panic attacks associated with
agoraphobia or social phobia. Paxil, an antidepressant, has been approved by the Food and Drug
Administration as a treatment for social phobia. Beta Blockers work by blocking the stimulating
effect of epinephrine (adrenaline) which increases heart rate and elevates blood pressure. A
sedative in a low dose can be prescribed for a short period.
Most people have some fear or aversion to some object or situation in life. It is when
this fear becomes so intense that it causes not only an emotional reaction, but a physical one as
well, that it becomes a phobia. When life has become miserable due to fear, when leaving the house
becomes impossible, when employment becomes difficult, seek treatment. There is hope.
Remember an old German proverb: “Fear makes the wolf bigger than he is.”
“I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the littledeath that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I
will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when
it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path.
Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will
remain.”
“You gain strength, courage and confidence by every
experience in which you really stop to look fear in the face.
You are able to say to yourself, 'I have lived through this
horror. I can take the next thing that comes along.' You
must do the thing you think you cannot do.”
Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
Eremophobia- Fear of loneliness
Necrophobia- Fear of death
Zeusophobia- Fear of God