List of phobias: from popular to rarest

Fears are different. What one person is afraid of may seem ridiculous and ridiculous to another, but this does not in the least detract from the fact that there is fear. The list of phobias known to science and sufficiently studied by modern psychiatry contains more than a hundred names, and behind each of them lies a certain fear that can change a person's life beyond recognition.

Phobia is called a symptom that is an unexplained and irrational fear of something. A person usually cannot control this emotion. Phobias are very persistent, they can haunt a person from childhood to old age. People suffering from certain phobic mental disorders try with all their might to avoid situations and circumstances that cause them strong anxiety. As a rule, they are well aware of the far-fetched and even absurdity of their fear, but they cannot do anything about it.

Phobias manifest high levels of anxiety, loss of self-control, panic attacks, and sometimes loss of consciousness. Realizing that a person cannot cope with his horror, he often decides to leave a potentially dangerous situation. So people become voluntary recluses (with the fear of the street, fear of leaving the house), social anxiety (with the fear of communicating with people, with the fear of being misunderstood, rejected). People with some phobias cannot start families, find a normal job, travel, and enjoy life.Fears significantly limit human capabilities.

It is believed that almost 70% of the world's population have certain types of phobic disorders, with specific phobias occurring in about 8-10% of cases. Most of those suffering from phobias live, according to statistics, in Europe and the Western world, only 4% are Asians, Africans and Latin Americans. Women, according to existing WHO data, tend to suffer from various nightmares about twice as often as men.

Psychiatrists, when talking about phobias, imply pathological manifestation of the reaction of fear to stimuli. It is believed that coping with phobias is much easier at the initial stage. Long-term, complex and neglected nightmares are rarely completely cured. Psychoanalysts mean by phobia a state of obsessive-compulsive neurosis, in which the anxiety state begins to actually control the behavior and thinking of the patient.

Not every fear can be considered a diagnosis. They speak of a mental disorder only if if persistent irrational horror has been present for more than six months, and its manifestations significantly limit a person's life.

The list of these fears is very impressive, because to one degree or another, all people are worried about their health and being in space. Here are the main health fears as well as spatial phobias.

• Ablutophobia - this is a fear of washing, bathing, cleaning, washing. At the same time, a person may not be afraid of open reservoirs, but any hygienic procedures are extremely unpleasant for him, and sometimes even cause persistent rejection.

• Agirophobia (dromophobia) - horror in front of the streets. Some are afraid of the prospect of crossing a wide street with a mass of cars, while others are pathologically afraid of narrow and quiet village streets.

• Agoraphobia - fear of open spaces, squares, crowds of people. In a severe form, it can manifest itself as a complete refusal to leave the confines of your apartment.

• Aichmophobia - pathological irrational fear of sharp objects, knives, fear of injury. Aichmophobes usually try to avoid sharp kitchen objects to the point of refusing to cook, buying semi-finished products, and also in 90% of cases they are afraid to cut their nails.

• Akliophobia - a rare disorder accompanied by an unjustified fear of deafness. People with this phobia avoid loud noises and try to be very attentive to the health of their ears.

• Acnephobia - severe fear of acne, acne. Often accompanied by obsessive-compulsive disorder, in which a person constantly tries to wipe his hands and face with clean napkins.

• Apopatophobia - unexplained fear of going to the toilets. In some, it is manifested only by the fear of going into public toilets, while others (rarely) - and individual latrines.

• Apoplexyphobia - fear of a stroke. It is noteworthy that mainly young and healthy people suffer from phobia, who have minimal risks of cerebral hemorrhage. It develops most often in people who have seen the consequences of strokes in loved ones and friends.

• Ataxiophobia - pathological strong terror at the prospect of losing balance and the ability to coordinate their movements. It is often found in professional athletes, circus performers, in people whose professional activity is associated with the need to keep balance.

• Autoizophobia (misophobia) - fear of contamination of your body, your skin, fear of being dirty and contracting dangerous diseases. This fear is usually closely associated with depression. In a severe form of the disorder, a person limits tactile contact with people and objects to a minimum or tries not to touch anything at all.

• Aerophobia - fear of traveling in aircraft, being in the cabin of an aircraft, as well as fear of a draft. A very common type of fear, in a severe form, it can manifest itself as a complete rejection of air transport.

• Aeroemphysemophobia - unexplained fear of the development of decompression sickness. It is often found among professional divers, divers, pilots, and astronauts. But anyone can develop, and even the understanding that decompression does not threaten anyone in ordinary life cannot guarantee that the corresponding nightmare will not develop.

• Basophobia - fear of walking without support. It can manifest itself as fright in the absence of railings, handrails, as well as the hands of a friend, comrade, partner, or loved one. People with this disorder are calm only if they have physical support for movement (at least a cane or a walker).

• Bacteriophobia (bacillophobia) - this is a strong fear of germs, bacteria, fear of becoming a victim of bacterial infection. It manifests itself as an obsession to create a sterile space around. Anxiety attacks can occur at any time when a foreign object, a person, etc. gets into the usual habitat, since they can be sources of pathogens.

• Blaptophobia - fear of harm, injury to someone or something. It often develops against the background of depression. Blaptophobes are indecisive, anxious that their actions may be dangerous to others, and this anxiety can manifest itself with tremors, hysteria, seizures, spasms of the respiratory muscles and increased heart rate.

• Bromhydrophobia - fear that others will notice the smell of sweat or unpleasant body odor. The disease is also called the ailment of excessive purity. This form of fear is often found in people with extremely low self-esteem. The very fact of your own sweating causes panic, there is a need to immediately get into the shower or at least use a deodorant. Bromhydrophobes often abuse perfume.

• Vaccinophobia - fear of vaccinations and possible complications from them. A relatively young phobia, which was included in the list of fears relatively recently. It can be manifested either by fear of only a certain type of vaccine, for example, before "live" vaccines, or it can be associated with all drugs for preventive vaccinations without exception.

• Venerophobia - fear of contracting a sexually transmitted disease. It can manifest itself as a fear of unprotected intercourse even with a regular partner, or it can manifest itself in the confidence that the disease already exists, while most of the venereophobes are afraid to see a doctor - they are hyper-shy.

• Verminophobia - fear of small worms, parasites, microbes, infection. Quite an extensive list of fears on which manufacturers of antibacterial soaps and sterile household wipes make good money. There are even special computer keyboards for verminophobes. The fear of getting infected and dying is usually based on the negative experience of the past (in childhood, a person has had an infection and is now afraid of repetition).

• Vertigophobia (dinophobia) - fear of dizziness and loss of balance.It often develops in people who really have problems with the health of the heart, blood vessels, vestibular apparatus, and auditory nerve. In this case, a person perceives the emerging dizziness as signs of a dangerous disease and begins to be afraid of the symptoms themselves.

• Halitophobia - fear of bad breath. A person is very afraid that others will find his breath smelly. There is not always the slightest reason for such fears. Fear quickly turns into an anxiety disorder, into an obsessive-compulsive disorder, in which a person constantly, as if wound up, performs the same program of actions aimed at freshening his breath and checking its freshness.

• Hemophobia (hematophobia) - fear of blood (one's own or someone else's). Most often develops after trauma or medical intervention associated with blood loss in childhood. At the same time, the event itself can be safely forgotten due to the remoteness of years, but fear is tightly imprinted in the subconscious. It manifests itself acutely, sharply - nausea, dizziness, tremors, obsessive smell of blood, tinnitus, loss of consciousness may occur.

• Hydrozophobia - fear of sweating. Usually, a person is afraid to sweat for two reasons - either for fear of catching a cold, or for fear of starting to smell bad, which others will surely notice. Usually, hydrosophobes are very anxious when they see other people sweating, and therefore they usually try not to visit gyms, stadiums, baths.

• Gymnophobia - fear of nudity. Patients are afraid that someone will see them naked. In some cases, someone else's nudity is also alarming, and therefore hymnophobes also try to avoid it. Most often, the violation is associated with a negative experience experienced in childhood, as well as with low self-esteem, when a person considers his body to be shameful, ugly.

• Dentophobia - fear of dentists, dentists. According to experts, every third inhabitant of the planet suffers from this type of fear. Dentophobes go to the dentist only as a last resort, and therefore they usually have problems with dental health.

• Dermatopatophobia - fear of contracting skin ailments. Fear of the prospect of becoming a patient of a dermatologist forces a person to use soap, detergents and disinfectants more often. And it is their frequent use that causes skin problems, which increases a person's panic. It turns out to be a vicious circle, from which it can be difficult to get out.

• Iatrophobia (jatrophobia) - fear of doctors, nurses, orderlies and everyone who wears a white coat. It can manifest itself in the form of refusal to visit the clinic, to take tests.

• Iophobia - fear of poison, fear of being poisoned. A person may be afraid not only of food poisoning or drugs, but also of poisons that can get on the skin and under it with insect bites, when shaking hands. The food preferences of the iophobe are usually meager - he eats only limited groups of foods, he cannot be fed with anything outside the home, if he does not know who and from what prepared the treat. At home, a person with this disorder can always have an impressive collection of insecticides. People can feel signs of poisoning regularly.

• Carcinophobia - fear of contracting cancer, cancer. It most often develops in people aged 40+. The reasons may lie in the example of loved ones, and in the idea of ​​the danger and incurability of cancer in general. Often the fear of death and suffering from an oncological disease develops against the background of an already existing depression, as well as with other mental pathologies.

• Cardiopathophobia - fear of heart disease, attacks. It develops more often in people with a family history of death from heart disease.It is also believed that the likelihood of developing such fear increases with age. To a greater extent, pensioners who often visit doctors and take tests are susceptible to it.

• Kenophobia - fear of large empty spaces, movie theaters, theaters, foyers and halls. At the same time, fear is caused not so much by large spaces as by the fact that they are not filled with anything, and therefore the kenophobe's brain instantly "draws" a variety of dangers that may lie in the large hall.

• Claustrophobia - pathological fear of a confined space and the prospect of being in a dense crowd. Claustrophobes leave doors open, avoid taking the elevator, and are often afraid of train cars and aircraft cabins.

• Climacophobia - fear of stairs, the need to walk on them. At the same time, the staircase itself and the process of walking along it can cause horror. The causes of the pathological condition are not obvious, they are still not completely clear to medicine. The disorder is rare.

• Copophobia - fear of overwork. It often develops in adults and men and women who are quite successful in life, who have heard about the dangers of overwork or have themselves experienced the consequences of chronic fatigue. The manifestation of a disorder is atypical for phobias - a person does not try to avoid affairs and responsibility, and even vice versa - he tries to load himself more. And the more he takes on himself, the stronger the level of anxiety and worries about possible fatigue.

• Coprophobia - fear of feces. Not only the sight of feces (ours, strangers, dogs, etc.), but also a conversation about defecation, and sometimes even advertising of laxatives, can cause an attack of panic fear and disgust. A person's hands and lips begin to tremble, dizziness appears, he may lose consciousness.

• Lalophobia - fear of speaking when stuttering. Caused by the fear of becoming a laughing stock in the eyes of others. It occurs not only in people suffering from stuttering, but also in those who have never stuttered, but are very afraid that they may experience a sudden and inexplicable stuttering.

• Maniophobia - fear of becoming mentally unhealthy. Maniophobes are literally pursued by the obsessive thought that they will definitely go crazy one day, and therefore they regularly find symptoms of various mental disorders. The "trap" is that when the phobia progresses, the person really goes crazy. Therefore, the condition definitely needs treatment, otherwise real madness is just a stone's throw away.

• Menophobia - fear of menstruation. It can be combined with hemophobia (fear of blood), or it can be an isolated fear, for example, a woman is afraid of unpleasant sensations during menstrual bleeding.

• Misophobia (germophobia) - fear of contracting infections. Misophobes are afraid to touch foreign objects, to contact people who do not inspire confidence in them. They often avoid public transport, public baths, and any place where they could theoretically contract any infectious disease.

• Nosophobia - fear of getting sick. This concept includes numerous fears of specific diseases (lissophobia - fear of schizophrenia, leprophobia - fear of leprosy, speedophobia - fear of HIV infection, etc.), as well as a general fear of getting sick with something. Such people are anxious about their health, hygiene, nutrition, read a lot of information about the symptoms of diseases and even find the lion's share of them in themselves.

• Nosomephobia - pathological fear of hospitals, hospitals, hospitals.People with such a disorder, on the contrary, cannot be lured to the hospital, which is dangerous in itself, because in the absence of diagnosis and timely detection of many diseases, a person is in serious danger. Most often it manifests itself in childhood. In adults, it has a severe course.

• Onanophobia - horror of the possible consequences of masturbation. It develops more often in adolescents, can have a severe course, in which a person generally refuses to build his full-fledged intimate life. Usually associated with scary stories about the dangers of masturbation (often not true), with which adults frighten adolescents. Most often boys suffer from this form of fear.

• Patroyophobia - fear of hereditary diseases. It usually develops in those who really have sick people in their family, as well as in people who have very difficult relationships with their relatives: they begin to fear that they will also have negative traits and that relations with their own children will also be difficult. If left untreated, fear can turn into paranoid disorder.

• Parurez - fear of urination in public. It is not considered a separate disease and disorder, but it is often accompanied by a variety of disturbing social phobias. More common in men.

• Peladophobia - fear of baldness. It can develop in both men and women. It manifests itself in the fact that people begin to rapidly avoid contact with bald ones, because in their presence they begin to experience strong excitement.

• Pettophobia - fear of accidentally farting in public. Fear can reach such strength that a person stops visiting public places, is afraid to stand in line at the store, since uncontrolled emission of intestinal gases, according to the pettophobe, can occur at any time.

• Tocophobia - fear of childbirth. Most often, women are tocophobes, but there are also representatives of the stronger sex who suffer from attacks of fear and panic at the mention of pregnancy and childbirth. Fear can be multifaceted - it is the fear of not becoming a good parent, and the fear of pain in childbirth, and the negative experience of abortion in the past, and even the fear of losing a good figure after childbirth. In a severe form, the fear of childbirth forces a woman to voluntarily refuse to continue the family.

• Topophobia - fear of being alone in some room. We are talking about a certain room or type of premises (basements, attics, storage rooms) or about all rooms without exception (rarely). It is very important for such a person that someone is with him constantly, even if it is a cat or a dog.

• Traumatophobia - fear of injury. It occurs with a hypertrophied instinct for self-preservation. Traumatophobes have often suffered trauma in the past, usually in childhood. The disorder manifests itself in increased precautions, in the use of personal protective equipment, even in circumstances in which it seems inappropriate.

• Tremophobia - fear of tremors, tremors. It is often a symptom of other phobic disorders in which hands or lips begin to tremble in a state of excitement.

• Trypanophobia - fear of injections, needles, syringes, piercings, etc. Any punctures on the body (even as a possible event) cause strong excitement in the trypanophobe, deprive him of peace and sleep, in a severe form, the disorder can be accompanied by a complete refusal to take tests, treatment ...

• Tuberculosis phobia (phthisiophobia) - fear of contracting tuberculosis. It usually develops in impressionable people after becoming familiar with the symptoms and modes of transmission of this dangerous disease.They refuse to shake hands, try to avoid being in the same room with those who are coughing (regardless of the cause of the cough), often wash their hands, and inhale themselves at home. In a severe form, they avoid communicating with strangers and try not to grab the doorknobs anywhere.

• Tunnelehobia - fear to cross the tunnel. It is one of the forms of spatial phobias. It can manifest itself both in a complete refusal to enter any tunnels, and in a refusal to overcome them alone, without an accompanying person.

• Pharmacophobia - fear of taking medications. It often borders on the fear of doctors, on fears of possible poisoning. Sometimes it develops as a long-term memory for side effects from taking medications in childhood, but can be the result of negative information from the outside (reports of fake drugs, dangerous falsifications, etc.).

• Phthiriophobia - fear of head lice, lice. A person is so afraid of catching head lice that he tries to avoid everyone who not only scratches his head, but also touches his hair. Often phthiriophobes complain of an itchy scalp, mistaking it for symptoms of lice, but the real danger is fraught with attempts to independently use various chemicals and insecticides, with the help of which those suffering from such a disorder are trying to get rid of a non-existent problem.

• Emetophobia - fear of vomiting. One of the least studied phobias, although about half of the people on the planet suffer from it. It can be manifested by the fear of one's own vomiting in public, as well as the fear that a person may experience when contemplating someone else's vomiting.

• Epistaxophobia - fear of nosebleeds. It is really impossible to control a condition such as epistaxis (epistaxis). And if a person is prone to frequent nosebleeds, then he may develop such a phobia.

• Erythrophobia - fear of blushing. Some people blush when they lie, some - during intense excitement. Erythrophobe is afraid that redness for any reason will catch him at the wrong time in the wrong circumstances, when he is in public.

Fears of natural phenomena and representatives of the animal and plant worlds are among the most ancient. They were formed at the dawn of mankind and will remain for a long time as manifestations of the instinct of self-preservation. But for some, these fears go beyond reason and lead to a loss of control over themselves every time a person is faced with what they are afraid of.

Such fears do not always arise as a result of negative personal experience. Often the reason lies in the age-old "memory of ancestors." Such fears are often inherited. Here is a list of the most common phobias of this type:

• ailurophobia (felinophobia) - fear of cats;
• acarophobia - pathological fear of ticks and their bites;
• anemophobia - fear of a storm, possible natural destruction;
• antophobia - fear of flowers (both wild and in pots);
• apiphobia - fear of bees, wasps and their stings;
• arachnophobia - fear of spiders;
• astrophobia - fear of stars, starry sky, starry space;
• brontophobia - fear of peals of thunder;
• galeophobia - pathological fear of sharks;
• heliophobia - fear of being in the open sun;
• herpetophobia - fear of snakes and reptiles;
• hylophobia - fear of getting lost in the forest;
• zoophobia - fear of animals in the broad sense of the word (many of the terms listed in the list are varieties of zoophobia, its particular cases);
• zemmyphobia - fear of moles;
• insectophobia (entomophobia) - fear of insects;
• keraunophobia - fear of lightning flashes;
• kinophobia - pathological fear of dogs of all sizes and breeds;
• myrmecophobia - fear of ants;
• musophobia (or serephobia) - fear of mice, rats, other rodents;
• nyphobia - fear of night time, darkness.
• ombrophobia - fear of getting wet in the rain;
• bird phobia - fear of birds and their feathers;
• pyrophobia - fear of fire;
• psycho-phobia - fear of cold;
• radiophobia - fear of radiation;
• ranidophobia - fear of frogs;
• thalassophobia - fear of the sea (the reservoir itself and the process of swimming in it);
• uranophobia - fear of looking into the sky;
• chiroptophobia - fear of bats;
• equinophobia - fear of horses.

Social fears take pride of place in terms of prevalence. They are usually associated with the need to build social contacts, as well as age-related changes in the psyche. These include:

• agraphobia - fear of the possibility of sexual harassment;
• androphobia - pathological fear of men;
• anthropophobia - fear of the company of people;
• autojobia - fear of loneliness;
• gamophobia - fear of marriage;
• haptophobia - fear of other people's touch, the need to touch someone;
• gelotophobia - unreasonable strong fear of becoming the object of ridicule;
• genophobia (coitophobia) - fear of sex;
• gerontophobia - fear of old age;
• heterophobia - unreasonable fear of members of the opposite sex;
• gynophobia - pathological fear of women;
• gravidophobia - a rare fear of pregnant women, fear of the prospect of meeting a pregnant woman;
• demophobia (okhlophobia) - horror of a gathering of people, a crowd, a gathering;
• logophobia - strong irrational fear of the process of talking in the presence of other people;
• paralipophobia - the fear that any erroneous action of a person can harm his relatives, friends, people dear to him;
• pediophobia - irrational fear of children;
• scopophobia - fear that other people will look at you;
• social phobia - fear of society, public condemnation, failure;
• transphobia - pathological fear of transgender people, acute rejection of signs of transsexuality;
• philophobia - fear of falling in love, feeling a sense of heartfelt affection for someone;
• ephebiphobia - pathological fear of adolescents.

Such phobias are common mental disorders, according to statistics, up to 12% of the population suffer from them to a more or less pronounced degree. Some of these phobias are:

• vinophobia - pathological fear of drinking wine (and sometimes other alcoholic beverages);
• sitophobia – fear of eating in general;
• trichophobia - horror at the hair that got into the food;
• phagophobia - fear of swallowing food, choking in the process of swallowing;
• chemophobia - fear of possible chemical additives in food.

This group of phobias affects both men, women and children. Anything that has a mystical color at all times was perceived as something terrible, but sometimes fears become strong, irrational and turn into a phobia. Here are some of these fears:

• arithmophobia - fear of a certain number, which has a certain mystical meaning for a particular person;
• hierophobia - panic horror in front of objects related to any religious cult;
• hexacosioihexecontahexaphobia - fright in front of the "devilish" number 666;
• demonophobia (satanophobia) - fear of demons, the devil;
• paraskaidekatriaphobia (triskaidekaphobia) - fear of the number 13;
• spectrophobia - pathological fear in front of spirits, ghosts, ghosts;
• theophobia - fear of God, his possible interference in human affairs, divine punishment;
• colrophobia - fear of the image of a clown.

There are also fears that are conventionally identified as atypical. This only means that they are rare enough, and the causes of such phobic disorders usually cannot be established:

• acryophobia - fear of not understanding the meaning of the information read;
• hippo - obsessive horror from long words;
• dorophobia - panic fear of giving gifts and receiving gifts from others;
• dextraphobia - obsessive fear of all objects located at the current time to the right of the person;
• decidophobia - fright before making a decision;
• imogiphobia - panic that you will be misunderstood when you use emoticons in correspondence;
• retterophobia - fear of making a mistake in the spelling of a word, not noticing the autocorrect function;
• selfphobia - fear of an unsuccessful selfie, which will cause condemnation of others;
• hyrophobia - inexplicable horror, it is inappropriate to laugh in an environment that does not predispose to this, for example, at a funeral;
• chronophobia - horror of time, its passage.

• Nobodyphobia - fear of the dark, night time. This is the most common fear in the modern world and it occurs in people of different ages, gender, educational level and social status. Up to 80% of children suffer from nymphobia, and among adults, the prevalence of phobia is about 9-10%.

• Acrophobia - panic fear of heights. It affects up to 8% of the world's inhabitants. Any stay at a height, flight, the need to look out the window from the upper floors give rise to the strongest unaccountable fear of falling. And a fall is quite possible, because at the time of a panic attack, a person really loses the ability to control himself and his actions.

• Aerophobia - fear of traveling by air, flying an airplane. Up to 7% of people suffer from this disorder. May be accompanied by additional fears such as thanatophobia (fear of death).

• Claustrophobia - fear of confined space. It occurs in 5-6% of people to one degree or another. Patients try to avoid traveling in the elevator, do not close doors and windows. Even a tight tie or shower stall can cause anxiety attacks in some.

• Aquaphobia is fear of water. It occurs in 50% of people who have experienced water tragedies, disasters, floods, etc. Without prior predisposing causes, it occurs in 3% of people on Earth.

• Ophidiophobia is a horror of snakes. Pathological fear of snakes occurs in 3% of people. Some are afraid only at the moment of contemplating the reptile, some are able to "invent" him and suffer from the obsession that there may well be a snake in their home at the moment.

• Hematophobia - fear of blood in its pathological variant occurs in 2% of the world's inhabitants. In almost half of the cases, the terrible bloody films seen in childhood, as well as the careless manipulations of health workers, are to blame for the development of fear.

• Thanatophobia - the horror of one's own death and the death of others. Usually found in religious people after a not-so-fortunate period of midlife crisis. It is rare in children.

• Glossophobia - pathological fear of public speaking. It happens in a mild form in 90% of the world's inhabitants, but in 3% it passes into the form of a disease.

• Iremophobia - fear of deep silence. May be accompanied by audible hallucinations, feelings of irrational fear, and a desire to run. It is found in about 1.5-2% of earthlings, most often in residents of large cities, accustomed to noise even at night.

• Gnosiophobia - pathological fear of acquiring knowledge. Typically, this phobia affects the inhabitants of megalopolises, as well as children who grew up in uneducated tribes, and children-"Mowgli".
• Cumpunophobia - fear of buttons.A very rare phobia that occurs in only one case per 70 thousand people. It manifests itself in the fact that a person diligently avoids such accessories on clothes.
• Penteraphobia - pathological fear of the mother-in-law. No matter how ridiculous it may sound, there are men who really cannot communicate with mother-in-law without mortal horror in their souls and panic in their eyes. The same term is used to refer to the fear of the mother-in-law in women.
• Pogonophobia - fear of the beard. It manifests itself in the fact that the pogonophobe diligently avoids any contact with those who have a long beard. If communication is not avoided, it provokes a panic attack.
• Papaphobia - pathological fear of the Pope. Only a few cases of unbearable human horror are known at the mention of the Pope's name, but they were noticed and were included in the official list of phobias.
• Lacanophobia - fear of vegetables. One type of cucumber or zucchini can cause a lacanophobe to experience an attack of terror, panic and dizziness. Usually, the smell of vegetables is unbearable for such people.
• Nonophobia - fear of the clouds. They change shape, are in motion, and this very fact causes alarm in the nenophobe.
• Omphalophobia - fear of navels. Omphalophobes are afraid of the navel - their own, someone else's, they never allow anyone to touch this part of the body and they themselves try not to touch or look at the navel.

• Peter the Great (the Great) suffered from entomophobia - I was afraid of many insects, especially cockroaches. He forced him to regularly check his chambers for insects before he had to enter. This fact is widely reflected in the memoirs of his contemporaries.
• Franklin Roosevelt he was terrified of fire, suffered from pyrophobia since childhood, when in 1899 he witnessed a terrible fire. Roosevelt always left the door open at night, and the Secret Service officers were responsible for regular checks on fire safety at his residence.
• Fearless warrior-conqueror Genghis Khan suffered from kinophobia - he was afraid of dogs. As a child, he witnessed how a man was torn apart by a Mongolian wolfhound in the steppe.
• Psychoanalyst Dr. Sigmund Freud suffered from agoraphobia, was afraid of weapons and ferns. Fear of open spaces prevented the elderly Freud from taking walks unaccompanied by his students.
• North Korean leader Kim Jong Il afraid to fly. His aerophobia was so strong that in his political trips he always chose exclusively ground transport.
• Hollywood actress Uma Thurman suffers from claustrophobia. On the set of "Kill Bill-2" she decided to act herself in the scene where she was buried alive, which she regretted - the horror was so strong that Uma then needed the help of a psychotherapist to continue working on the film.
• The most famous social phobia of our time - mathematician Grigory Perelman. He does not leave his home, refuses to participate in conferences, does not give interviews, and also refused to come to Paris and receive a well-deserved prize of 1 million euros.
• Emperor Octavian August I was terrified of a thunderstorm. He even built a temple to Jupiter the Thunderer to appease the gods, but the fear did not go away.
• Hitler was afraid of dentists, Napoleon of cats and white horses.

How to deal with phobias and fears, see below.