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List of Phobias: Beaten by a Rod Or Instrument of Punishment, Or of # Being Severely Criticized — Rhabdophobia Beards — Pogonophobia. List of Phobias: Beaten by a rod or instrument of punishment, or of # being severely criticized — Rhabdophobia. Beautiful women — Caligynephobia. 13, number — Triskadekaphobia. Beds or going to bed — Clinophobia. 8, number — Octophobia. Bees — Apiphobia or Melissophobia. Bicycles — Cyclophobia. A Birds — Ornithophobia. Abuse, sexual — Contreltophobia. Black — Melanophobia. Accidents — Dystychiphobia. Blindness in a visual field — Scotomaphobia. Air — Anemophobia. Blood — Hemophobia, Hemaphobia or Air swallowing — Aerophobia. Hematophobia. Airborne noxious substances — Aerophobia. Blushing or the color red — Erythrophobia, Airsickness — Aeronausiphobia. Erytophobia or Ereuthophobia. Alcohol — Methyphobia or Potophobia. Body odors — Osmophobia or Osphresiophobia. Alone, being — Autophobia or Monophobia. Body, things to the left side of the body — Alone, being or solitude — Isolophobia. Levophobia. Amnesia — Amnesiphobia. Body, things to the right side of the body — Anger — Angrophobia or Cholerophobia. Dextrophobia. Angina — Anginophobia. Bogeyman or bogies — Bogyphobia. Animals — Zoophobia. Bolsheviks — Bolshephobia. Animals, skins of or fur — Doraphobia. Books — Bibliophobia. Animals, wild — Agrizoophobia. Bound or tied up — Merinthophobia. Ants — Myrmecophobia. Bowel movements, painful — Defecaloesiophobia. Anything new — Neophobia. Brain disease — Meningitophobia. Asymmetrical things — Asymmetriphobia Bridges or of crossing them — Gephyrophobia. Atomic Explosions — Atomosophobia. Buildings, being close to high buildings — Automobile, being in a moving — Ochophobia. Batophobia. Automobiles — Motorphobia. Bullets — Ballistophobia. Bulls — Taurophobia. B Bums or beggars — Hobophobia. Burglars, or being harmed by wicked persons — Bacteria — Bacteriophobia. Scelerophobia. Bald people — Peladophobia. Buried alive, being or cemeteries — Taphephobia or Bald, becoming — Phalacrophobia. Taphophobia. Bathing — Ablutophobia. Taylor Hypnosis Center 918.833.1601 www.taylorhypnosiscenter.com C Color purple — Porphyrophobia. Color red or blushing — Erythrophobia, Erytophobia Cancer — Cancerophobia, Carcinophobia. or Ereuthophobia. Car or vehicle, riding in — Amaxophobia. Color yellow — Xanthophobia. Cats — Aclurophobia, Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Color white — Leukophobia. Felinophobia, Galeophobia, or Gatophobia. Colors — Chromophobia or Chromatophobia. Celestial spaces — Astrophobia. Comets — Cometophobia. Cemeteries — Coimetrophobia. Computers or working on computers — Cyberphobia. Cemeteries or being buried alive — Taphephobia or Confined spaces — Claustrophobia. Taphophobia. Constipation — Coprastasophobia. Ceremonies, religious — Teleophobia. Contamination, dirt or infection — Molysmophobia or Changes, making, moving — Tropophobia or Molysomophobia. Metathesiophobia. Contamination with dirt or germs — Misophobia or Chickens — Alektorophobia. Mysophobia. Child, bearing a deformed, deformed people — Cooking — Mageirocophobia. Teratophobia. Corpses — Necrophobia. Childbirth — Maleusiophobia, Tocophobia, Cosmic Phenomenon — Kosmikophobia. Parturiphobia, or Lockiophobia. Creepy, crawly things — Herpetophobia. Children — Pedophobia. Criticized severely, or beaten by rod or instrument of Chinese or Chinese culture — Sinophobia. punishment — Rhabdophobia. Chins — Geniophobia. Criticism — Enissophobia. Choking or being smothered — Pnigophobia or Crosses or the crucifix — Staurophobia. Pnigerophobia. Crossing streets — Agyrophobia or Dromophobia. Choking — Anginophobia. Crowded public places like markets — Agoraphobia. Cholera — Cholerophobia. Crowds or mobs — Enochlophobia, Demophobia or Church — Ecclesiophobia. Ochlophobia. Clocks — Chronomentrophobia. Crucifix, the or crosses — Staurophobia. Clocks or time — Chronophobia. Crystals or glass — Crystallophobia. Clothing — Vestiphobia. Clouds — Nephophobia. D Clowns — Coulrophobia. Coitus — Coitophobia. Dampness, moisture or liquids — Hygrophobia. Cold or cold things — Frigophobia. Dancing — Chorophobia. Cold, extreme, ice or frost — Cryophobia. Dark or night — Nyctophobia. Cold — Cheimaphobia, Cheimatophobia, Dark place, being in — Lygophobia. Psychrophobia or Psychropophobia. Darkness — Achluophobia or Myctophobia, or Taylor Hypnosis Center 918.833.1601 www.taylorhypnosiscenter.com Scotophobia. Doctor, going to the — Iatrophobia. Dawn or daylight — Eosophobia. Doctrine, challenges to or radical deviation from Daylight or sunshine — Phengophobia. official — Heresyphobia or Hereiophobia. Death or dying — Thanatophobia. Dogs or rabies — Cynophobia. Death or dead things — Necrophobia. Dolls — Pediophobia. Decaying matter — Seplophobia. Double vision — Diplophobia. Decisions, making decisions — Decidophobia. Drafts — Aerophobia or Anemophobia. Defeat — Kakorrhaphiophobia. Dreams, wet — Oneirogmophobia. Deformed people or bearing a deformed child — Dreams — Oneirophobia. Teratophobia. Drinking — Dipsophobia. Deformity or unattractive body image — Drugs, new — Neopharmaphobia. Dysmorphophobia. Drugs or taking medicine — Pharmacophobia. Demons — Demonophobia or Daemonophobia. Dryness — Xerophobia. Dental surgery — Odontophobia. Dust — Amathophobia or Koniophobia. Dentists — Dentophobia. Dust — Amathophobia. Dependence on others — Soteriophobia. Duty or responsibility, neglecting — Paralipophobia. Depth — Bathophobia. Dying or death — Thanatophobia. Diabetes — Diabetophobia. E Dining or dinner conversations — Deipnophobia. Dirt, contamination or infection — Molysmophobia or Eating or swallowing — Phagophobia. Molysomophobia. Eating or food — Sitophobia or Sitiophobia. Dirt or germs, being contaminated with — Misophobia Eating or swallowing or of being eaten — or mysophobia. Phagophobia. Dirt or filth — Rhypophobia or Rupophobia. Eight, the number — Octophobia. Dirty, being dirty or personal filth — Automysophobia. Electricity — Electrophobia. Disease — Nosophobia, Nosemaphobia or Englishness — Anglophobia. Pathophobia. Erect penis — Medorthophobia. Disease and suffering — Panthophobia. Erection, losing an — Medomalacuphobia. Disease, a definite — Monopathophobia. Everything — Panophobia, Panphobia, Pamphobia, Disease, brain — Meningitophobia. or Pantophobia. Disease, kidney — Albuminurophobia. Eyes — Ommetaphobia or Ommatophobia. Disease, rectal — Rectophobia. Eyes, opening one’s — Optophobia.. Disorder or untidiness — Ataxophobia. Dizziness or vertigo when looking down — F Illyngophobia. Dizziness or whirlpools — Dinophobia. Taylor Hypnosis Center 918.833.1601 www.taylorhypnosiscenter.com Fabrics, certain — Textophobia. Freedom — Eleutherophobia. Failure — Atychiphobia or Kakorrhaphiophobia. Friday the 13th — Paraskavedekatriaphobia. Fainting — Asthenophobia. Frogs — Batrachophobia. Fatigue — Kopophobia. Frost, ice or extreme cold — Cryophobia. Fearful situations, being preferred by a phobic — Frost or ice — Pagophobia. Counterphobia. Functioning or work, surgeon’s fear of operating — Feathers or being tickled by feathers — Ergasiophobia. Pteronophobia. Fur or skins of animals — Doraphobia. Fecal matter, feces — Coprophobia or Scatophobia. G Female genitals — Kolpophobia. Female genitalia — Eurotophobia. Gaiety — Cherophobia. Fever — Febriphobia, Fibriphobia, Fidriophobia or Garlic — Alliumphobia. Pyrexiophobia. Genitals, particularly female — Kolpophobia. Filth or dirt — Rhypophobia. Genitalia, female — Eurotophobia. Fire — Arsonphobia or Pyrophobia. Germans or German culture — Germanophobia or Firearms — Hoplophobia. Teutophobia. Fish — Ichthyophobia. Germs or dirt, being contaminated with — Misophobia Flashes — Selaphobia. or mysophobia. Flogging or punishment — Mastigophobia. Germs — Verminophobia. Floods — Antlophobia. Ghosts or specters — Spectrophobia. Flowers — Anthrophobia or Anthophobia. Ghosts — Phasmophobia. Flutes — Aulophobia. Girls, young or virgins — Parthenophobia. Flying — Aviophobia or Aviatophobia or Glass or crystals — Crystallophobia. Pteromerhanophobia. Glass — Hyelophobia, Hyalophobia or Nelophobia. Fog — Homichlophobia or Nebulaphobia. Gloomy place, being in — Lygophobia. Food or eating — Sitophobia or Sitiophobia. God or gods — Zeusophobia. Food — Cibophobia. Gods or religion — Theophobia. Foreigners or strangers — Xenophobia. Gold — Aurophobia. Foreign languages — Xenoglossophobia. Good news, hearing good news — Euphobia. Forests or wooden objects — Xylophobia. Gravity — Barophobia. Forests — Hylophobia. Greek or Greek culture — Hellophobia. Forests, dark wooded area, of at night — Greek terms — Hellenologophobia. Nyctohylophobia Forgetting or being forgotten — Athazagoraphobia. H France or French culture — Francophobia, Gallophobia or Galiphobia. Taylor Hypnosis Center 918.833.1601 www.taylorhypnosiscenter.com Hair — Chaetophobia, Trichopathophobia, Infection, contamination or dirt — Molysmophobia or Trichophobia, or Hypertrichophobia. Molysomophobia. Halloween — Samhainophobia. Infinity — Apeirophobia. Hands — Chirophobia. Injections — Trypanophobia. Handwriting — Graphophobia. Injury — Traumatophobia. Harmed by wicked persons, bad men or burglars — Insanity, dealing with — Lyssophobia. Scelerophobia. Insanity — Dementophobia or Maniaphobia. Heart — Cardiophobia. Insects — Acarophobia or Entomophobia or Heat — Thermophobia. Insectophobia. Heaven — Ouranophobia or Uranophobia. Insects that eat wood — Isopterophobia. Heights — Acrophobia, Altophobia, Batophobia, Insects that cause itching — Acarophobia. Hypsiphobia or Hyposophobia. Itching — Acarophobia. Hell — Hadephobia, Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia. J Heredity — Patroiophobia. Holy things
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