Fear has big eyes: a guide to phobias

A phobia is an uncontrollable fear. About 10% of all inhabitants on the planet suffer from various fears. Now we will get acquainted with the most diverse types of phobias.


Panphobia - constant fear for an unknown reason

Panphobia is manifested as a fear of the presence of some incomprehensible and unknown evil. In medical directories this phobia is not registered.

Aylurophobia - Fear of Cats

This phobia in everyone manifests itself in different ways. Some people who once suffered from cats are afraid of them all the time, and some begin to fear only when there is a threat of their attack. Here are some situations that cause fear: cat purring, many think that a cat can fall in the street, the sight of a real cat, cats in pictures, the thought of staying with a cat alone in a dark room, fear of animal fur, toy cats.

Acrophobia - fear of heights

People who are afraid to be at the height, immediately observe in themselves takisimptomy: dizziness and nausea. If the head is dizzy at high altitude, then it's normal from the point of view of physiology. But acrophobes all inflate into a big problem and then panic fear even a small height, when it is impossible to fall.

Antofobia - fear of flowers

This is an incomprehensible fear of flowers. Most people who suffer from this phobia are afraid not of all flowers, but of some species and mostly of flowers in pots.

Arachnophobia - fear of spiders

Arachnophobia is the most common phobia when arachnids are afraid. In addition, some people are afraid not of the spider itself, but of its image.

Verminophobia - fear of bacteria, germs

Verminophobia is very common in psychiatry, the fear of having a disease, the fear of insects, worms, bacteria and microbes. Nicholas II and Mayakovsky themselves were the owners of this phobia. Very often, companies for the production of detergents, body care products, vacuum cleaners use this fear of people to offer antimicrobial agents that they say are capable of killing all bacteria. Usually, such microbes are not dangerous for a person who does not suffer from various diseases, and antimicrobial agents remove only a part of microorganisms. Only the most viable and resistant bacteria remain on the human body, which are very difficult to combat. When the microbe disappears, the immune system weakens because it has nothing to fight with. It becomes weak and can not protect the human body from infections.

Hemophobia - a fear of blood

Hemophobia is an obsession that carries a strong character of fear of grafting blood, not only in yourself, but also in other people and even on TV. This is accompanied by a strong palpitation, trembling, pale complexion, and sometimes even a loss of consciousness, both in weak and strong healthy people.

Herpetophobia - fear of reptiles, snakes, reptiles

Herpetophobia is a phobia, in which people are afraid of lizards and snakes. And such cases are very often. Different people have different manifestations of this phobia. Some people sometimes see a snake, just feel uncomfortable, while others feel panic fear, which completely fetters them. There are times when a picture of a snake is more fearful than a real individual.

Gethophobia - fear of bridges

Geyfirofobiya - a psychological disorder, which is caused by fear of the foreheads. People who are afraid of this, think that the bridge can collapse, explode or break in half. Therefore, they try to bypass them by the tenth expensive. Some experts say that such fear arises because of fear of high blood.

Hydrophobia is a fear of pain when swallowing water or any other liquid.

Glossophobia - fear of public speaking

Fear of public speaking is when a person is afraid to go on stage. This phobia is one of the most common. Symptoms of this phobia: trembling, palpitations, sweating, tremor of lips, trembling of the voice, podtashnivanie, constriction of the vocal cords, etc. There are times when the fear of the scene becomes part of common mental problems, but most people are afraid of the scene without any other psychological problems. According to statistics, 95% of people are afraid to appear before the public.

Claustrophobia is when people are afraid of a closed or tight space. This phobia is considered quite common.

Agoraphobia - fear of space, crowds of people, markets, open spaces, squares

Agoraphobia - this is when a person is upset by the psyche of hitting an open space where there are a lot of people. This is the fear that appears on the open market, in open spaces. The owners of this phobia say that they do not know what to expect from all these people, so they experience fear. This fear acts as a protective mechanism. In real life this phobia can be caused by people, emotional traumas from people and everything that is connected with people. This phobia is accompanied by nervous disorders and mental illnesses.

Climacophobia (climatophobia) - phobia of walking down the stairs, stairs

Climacobia is when people are afraid of walking on stairs, they are afraid of the object itself and of moving around on them. It often happens that people are afraid of stairs in certain situations, for example, when it is wet or icy, or there are no rails. People who are in this phobia are afraid of an accident. The phobia of neurosis-intrusive conditions and psychasthenia are accompanied.

Nobofobia - fear of the dark

This fear comes from the very childhood, but very often people suffer this phobia in adulthood. Nobofobia is a fear that you can face especially in life. How to cope with this problem? Only having understood with yourself, you need to understand what exactly in the dark you are afraid of.

Crowphobia - fear of clowns

One Californian professor of psychology found that small children do not react correctly to people who have a normal body, but an incomprehensible face. In addition, children do not like the design of schools and hospitals in clownish style.

Radiophobia - fear of radiation

Radiophobia (radioactivity) - Onerous mental and physiological disorders, which sometimes even hard to heal. This is expressed by the fear of various kinds of objects that can emit radiation. There is, and vice versa, another concept of radioeufory - this is when people completely deny any radiation.

Taphophobia - fear of being buried alive, funeral

Taphophobia is a fear of funerals, in front of funeral objects and a fear that a person will be buried alive. This is the most basic phobia of the human psyche. In medical psychiatric literature it is said that the same mental disorders cause claustrophobia (fear of closed space) and no-phobia (fear of darkness).

Technophobia - fear of technology

Technophobia is a fear of modern technologies and electronic devices. Such a phobia is observed in different peoples. Some people refuse at all from any technique. There are cases when new technologies conflict with personal values ​​of people or with strange beliefs.