Effective treatment for fears and phobias

Fear is the normal response to a genuine danger, however, with phobias and phobic responses, the fear is either irrational or excessive. It is an abnormally fearful response to a danger that is imagined or is irrationally exaggerated. People can develop phobic reactions to animals e.g. fear of spiders, activities e.g. fear of flying or social situations e.g. eating in public or simply being in a public environment.

Phobias affect people of all ages, from all walks of life, and in every part of the country, they are surprisingly common, being experienced by up to 10% of all adults and are the most common psychiatric disorder among women of all ages and the second most common issue that men over 25 experience.

Phobias are emotional and physical reactions to feared objects or situations, symptoms of a phobia include the following:

• Feelings of panic, dread, horror, or terror
• Recognition that the fear goes beyond normal boundaries and the actual threat of danger
• Reactions that are automatic and uncontrollable, practically taking over the person’s thoughts
• Rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath, trembling, and an overwhelming desire to flee the situation all the physical reactions associated with extreme fear
• Extreme measures may be taken to avoid the feared object or situation

Phobias are more often than not linked to the amygdala, an area of the brain located behind the pituitary gland in the limbic system. The amygdala secretes hormones that control fear and aggression. When the fear or aggression response is initiated, the amygdala releases hormones into the body to put the human body into an “alert” state, in which they are ready to move, run, fight, etc. This defensive “alert” state and response is generally referred to in psychology as the Fight-or-flight response.

It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external events and internal predispositions. In a famous experiment, Martin Seligman used classical conditioning to establish phobias of snakes and flowers. The results of the experiment showed that it took far fewer shocks to create an adverse response to a picture of a snake than to a picture of a flower, leading to the conclusion that certain objects may have a genetic predisposition to being associated with fear. Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age.

Understanding anxiety

Most fears and phobias include a huge amount of anxiety, so it’s good to understand where this comes from and what you can do about it. Most people, who face anxiety, do so, because they are trying to prevent life from being what it is, they explore in their minds all the different scenarios of what might happen – and because they are trying to cover every eventuality, which, of course, is impossible – the unconscious mind gets anxious.

At a more basic level, we want life to be a certain way to give us a better chance of survival and through surviving we find happiness, so if you think life will present situations that will prevent your ideal plans from happening, then you begin to get anxious.

Our human survival mechanism is based on two concepts; firstly, on animal based fears, such as, fear of spiders, fear of being bitten by a dog, fear of suffocation (claustrophobia) etc. Then secondly, we have ego based fears, like, social phobia, feeling embarrassed, looking like a fool, fear of being judged by others or not being accepted into a group.

These ego based fears are often approval seeking mechanisms, for example, ‘needing to be accepted by the group’ could be translated as ‘I might not survive without the group’ at an instinctual level. Approval seeking from parents too, because if they withdrew their love and care, what impact would that have on your survival?

So, people that are good at becoming anxious are very efficient at looking to the future and trying to prevent what’s coming, they generate a wide spectrum of scary ‘what if’ scenarios which, unsurprisingly, can overwhelm them.

If we can begin to accept that life doesn’t always go to plan, if we accepted that people might not like us, if we accepted that there are variables that we just can’t change, if we accepted that there will be spiders and dogs around, if we accepted life the way it is – we could then just do the best job we can and we are not going to be burdened with too much anxiety. I can help you to re-establish new beliefs that will begin this process of change.

Curing phobias

Any fears and phobias that interfere with daily living or create extreme disability should be treated, and with proper treatment, the vast majority of phobia sufferers can completely overcome their fears and become symptom free. As you know, currently, you can’t just turn off this emotional response, it’s because your reaction is triggered deep down by your unconscious mind (not the logical conscious part of your brain). Typically, the unconscious part of your brain tries to keep you ’safe’ – however, sometimes it’s version of ’safe’ can be outdated and what once was a good strategy to keep you ’safe’, may now be a hindrance.

For example: If a young child was ‘attacked’ by a dog (the reality may be that a big dog was just jumping up and playing a little rough) the unconscious mind may have processed this event as a dangerous situation and one to be avoided. So, every time a similar event occurred (a dog came near) the unconscious mind would spring into action and begin a series of uncomfortable emotional and physical feelings to remind you to stay away from ‘All’ dogs. The unconscious mind works differently to the rational conscious mind and does not update these reflex responses automatically as you get older and wiser – which means that an event from your distant past that elicited a ’safe strategy’ may still be running now although it is an out-of-date and wholly inappropriate response.

What’s the next step?

Treating phobias with hypnosis and emotional detachment techniques allow us to work together, in a gentle and non-confrontational manner, allowing you to access your unconscious mind and update those unwanted responses in a planned and gradual way that subsequently changes your emotional and physical responses, delivering profound changes to your old phobic responses in as few as two or three sessions.

Common phobias

There are hundreds of phobias, some obvious and some quite individual, however, each is very real to the person who is living them. Humans can experience a phobic response to a whole manner of differing situations, some of the more common ones include:

• Claustrophobia
• Fear of Death
• Fear of Driving
• Fear of Flying
• Fear of Heights
• Social Phobias

List of phobias names

• Ablutophobia fear of washing or bathing.
• Acarophobia fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching.
• Acerophobia fear of sourness.
• Achluophobia fear of darkness.
• Acousticophobia fear of noise.
• Acrophobia- fear of heights.
• Aerophobia fear of drafts, air swallowing, or airborne noxious substances.
• Aeroacrophobia fear of open high places.
• Aeronausiphobia fear of vomiting
• Agateophobia fear of insanity.
• Agliophobia fear of pain.
• Agoraphobia fear of open spaces or fear of leaving a safe place.
• Agraphobia fear of sexual abuse.
• Agrizoophobia fear of wild animals.
• Agyrophobia fear of streets or crossing the street.
• Aichmophobia fear of needles or pointed objects.
• Ailurophobia fear of cats.
• Albuminurophobia fear of kidney disease.
• Alektorophobia fear of chickens.
• Algophobia fear of pain.
• Alliumphobia fear of garlic.
• Allodoxaphobia fear of opinions.
• Altophobia fear of heights.
• Amathophobia fear of dust.
• Amaxophobia fear of riding in a car.
• Ambulophobia fear of walking.
• Amnesiphobia fear of amnesia.
• Amychophobia fear of scratches or being scratched.
• Anablephobia fear of looking up.
• Ancraophobia fear of wind.
• Androphobia fear of men.
• Anemophobia fear of air drafts or wind.
• Anginophobia fear of angina, choking or narrowness.
• Anglophobia fear of England or English culture, etc.
• Angrophobia fear of anger or of becoming angry.
• Ankylophobia fear of immobility of a joint.
• Anthrophobia fear of flowers.
• Anthropophobia fear of people or society.
• Antlophobia fear of floods.
• Anuptaphobia fear of staying single.
• Apeirophobia fear of infinity.
• Aphenphosmphobia fear of being touched.
• Apiphobia fear of bees.
• Apotemnophobia fear of persons with amputations.
• Arachnophobia fear of spiders.
• Arithmophobia fear of numbers.
• Arrhenphobia fear of men.
• Arsonphobia fear of fire.
• Asthenophobia fear of fainting or weakness.
• Astraphobia fear of thunder and lightning.
• Astrophobia fear of stars or celestial space.
• Asymmetriphobia fear of asymmetrical things.
• Ataxophobia fear of disorder or untidiness.
• Atelophobia fear of imperfection.
• Atephobia fear of ruin or ruins.
• Athazagoraphobia fear of being forgotten.
• Atomosophobia fear of atomic explosions.
• Atychiphobia fear of failure.
• Aulophobia fear of flutes.
• Aurophobia fear of gold.
• Auroraphobia fear of Northern lights.
• Autodysomophobia fear of one that has a vile odour.
• Automatonophobia fear of ventriloquist’s dummies.
• Automysophobia fear of being dirty.
• Autophobia fear of being alone or of oneself.
• Aviophobia fear of flying.
• Bacillophobia fear of microbes.
• Bacteriophobia fear of bacteria.
• Ballistophobia fear of missiles or bullets.
• Barophobia fear of gravity.
• Basophobia 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 like frogs & newts
• Belonephobia fear of pins and needles.
• Bibliophobia fear of books.
• Blennophobia fear of slime.
• Botanophobia fear of plants.
• Bromidrosiphobia fear of body smells.
• Brontophobia fear of thunder and lightning.
• Bufonophobia fear of toads.
• Cacophobia fear of ugliness.
• Cainophobia fear of newness.
• Caligynephobia fear of beautiful women.
• Carcinophobia fear of cancer.
• Cardiophobia fear of the heart.
• Carnophobia fear of meat.
• Catagelophobia fear of being ridiculed.
• Catapedaphobia fear of jumping from high and low places.
• Cathisophobia fear of sitting.
• Catoptrophobia fear of mirrors.
• Cenophobia fear of new things or ideas.
• Ceraunophobia fear of thunder and lightning
• Chaetophobia fear of hair.
• Cheimaphobia fear of cold.
• Chemophobia fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
• Chionophobia fear of snow.
• Chiraptophobia fear of being touched.
• Chirophobia fear of hands.
• Chorophobia fear of dancing.
• Chrometophobia fear of money.
• Chromophobia fear of colours.
• Chronophobia fear of time.
• Chronomentrophobia fear of clocks.
• Cibophobia fear of food.
• Claustrophobia fear of confined spaces.
• Cleithrophobia fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
• Cleptophobia fear of stealing.
• Climacophobia fear of stairs, climbing, or of falling downstairs.
• Clinophobia fear of going to bed.
• Clithrophobia fear of being enclosed.
• Cnidophobia fear of stings.
• Cometophobia fear of comets.
• Coimetrophobia fear of cemeteries.
• Coitophobia fear of coitus.
• Contreltophobia fear of sexual abuse.
• Coprastasophobia fear of constipation.
• Coprophobia fear of faeces.
• Consecotaleophobia fear of chopsticks.
• Coulrophobia fear of clowns.
• Cremnophobia fear of precipices.
• Cryophobia fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
• Crystallophobia fear of crystals or glass.
• Cyberphobia fear of computers or working on a computer.
• Cyclophobia fear of bicycles.
• Cymophobia fear of waves or wave like motions.
• Cynophobia fear of dogs or rabies.
• Decidophobia fear of making decisions.
• Defecaloesiophobia fear of painful bowels movements.
• Deipnophobia fear of dining or dinner conversations.
• Dementophobia fear of insanity.
• Demonophobia fear of demons.
• Demophobia fear of crowds. (Agoraphobia)
• Dendrophobia fear of trees.
• Dentophobia fear of dentists.
• Dermatophobia fear of skin lesions.
• Dermatosiophobia 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.
• Dinophobia fear of dizziness or whirlpools.
• Diplophobia fear of double vision.
• Dipsophobia fear of drinking.
• Dishabiliophobia fear of undressing in front of someone.
• Domatophobia fear of houses or being in a house.
• 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.
• Eicophobia fear of home surroundings.
• Eisoptrophobia fear of mirrors or of seeing oneself in a mirror.
• Electrophobia fear of electricity.
• Eleutherophobia fear of freedom.
• Elurophobia fear of cats.
• Emetophobia fear of vomiting.
• Enetophobia fear of pins.
• Enochlophobia fear of crowds.
• Enosiophobia fear of sin.
• Entomophobia fear of insects.
• Eosophobia fear of dawn or daylight.
• Ephebiphobia fear of teenagers.
• Epistaxiophobia fear of nosebleeds.
• Epistemophobia fear of knowledge.
• Equinophobia fear of horses.
• Eremophobia fear of being oneself or of loneliness.
• Ereuthrophobia fear of blushing.
• Ergophobia fear of work.
• Erotophobia fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
• Euphobia fear of hearing good news.
• Eurotophobia fear of female genitalia.
• Erythrophobia fear of red lights, Blushing, red.
• Febriphobia fear of fever.
• Felinophobia fear of cats.
• Francophobia fear of France or French culture.
• Frigophobia fear of cold or cold things.
• Galeophobia fear of cats.
• Gallophobia fear France or French culture.
• Gamophobia fear of marriage.
• Geliophobia fear of laughter.
• Geniophobia fear of chins.
• Genophobia fear of sex.
• Genuphobia fear of knees.
• Gephyrophobia 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 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 fear of women.
• Hadephobia fear of hell.
• Hagiophobia fear of saints or holy things.
• Hamartophobia fear of sinning.
• Haphephobia fear of being touched.
• Harpaxophobia fear of being robbed.
• Hedonophobia fear of feeling pleasure.
• Heliophobia fear of the sun.
• Hellenologophobia fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
• Helminthophobia fear of being infested with worms.
• Hemophobia fear of blood.
• Heresyphobia fear of challenges to official doctrine or of radical deviation.
• Herpetophobia fear of reptiles or creepy, crawly things.
• Heterophobia fear of the opposite sex.
• Hierophobia fear of priests or sacred things.
• Hippophobia fear of horses.
• Hobophobia fear of bums or beggars.
• Hodophobia fear of road travel.
• Hormephobia fear of shock.
• Homichlophobia fear of fog.
• Homilophobia fear of sermons.
• Hominophobia fear of men.
• Homophobia- fear of sameness, or of homosexuality.
• Hoplophobia fear of firearms.
• Hydrargyophobia fear of mercurial medicines.
• Hydrophobia fear of water or of rabies.
• Hydrophobophobia fear of rabies.
• Hyelophobia fear of glass.
• Hygrophobia fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture.
• Hylephobia fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy.
• Hylophobia fear of forests.
• Hypengyophobia fear of responsibility.
• Hypnophobia fear of sleep or of being hypnotized.
• Hypsiphobia fear of height.
• 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.
• Ithyphallophobia fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
• Japanophobia fear of Japanese.
• Judeophobia fear of Jews.
• Kainolophobia 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 fear of thunder and lightning.
• Kinetophobia fear of movement or motion.
• Kleptophobia fear of stealing.
• Koinoniphobia fear of rooms.
• Kolpophobia fear of genitals, particularly female.
• Kopophobia fear of fatigue.
• Koniophobia fear of dust.
• Kosmikophobia fear of cosmic phenomenon.
• Kymophobia fear of waves.
• Kynophobia fear of rabies.
• Kyphophobia fear of stooping.
• Lachanophobia fear of vegetables.
• Laliophobia fear of speaking.
• Leprophobia fear of leprosy.
• Leukophobia fear of the colour 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.
• Logophobia fear of words.
• Lutraphobia fear of otters.
• Lygophobia fear of darkness.
• Lyssophobia fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
• Macrophobia fear of long waits.
• Mageirocophobia fear of cooking.
• Maieusiophobia fear of childbirth.
• Malaxophobia fear of love play.
• Maniaphobia fear of insanity.
• Mastigophobia fear of punishment.
• Mechanophobia fear of machines.
• Medomalacuphobia fear of losing an erection.
• Medorthophobia fear of an erect penis.
• Megalophobia fear of large things.
• Melissophobia fear of bees.
• Melanophobia fear of the colour black.
• Melophobia fear or hatred of music.
• Meningitophobia fear of brain disease.
• Menophobia fear of menstruation.
• Merinthophobia fear of being bound or tied up.
• Metallophobia fear of metal.
• Metathesiophobia fear of changes.
• Meteorophobia fear of meteors.
• Methyphobia fear of alcohol.
• Metrophobia fear or hatred of poetry.
• Microbiophobia fear of microbes.
• Microphobia fear of small things.
• Misophobia fear of being contaminated with dirt or germs.
• Mnemophobia fear of memories.
• Molysmophobia 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 fear of mice.
• Mycophobia fear or aversion to mushrooms.
• Mycrophobia fear of small things.
• Myctophobia fear of darkness.
• Myrmecophobia fear of ants.
• Mythophobia fear of myths or stories or false statements.
• Myxophobia fear of slime.
• Nebulaphobia fear of fog.
• Necrophobia fear of death or dead things.
• Nelophobia fear of glass.
• Neopharmaphobia fear of new drugs.
• Neophobia fear of anything new.
• Nephophobia fear of clouds.
• Noctiphobia fear of the night.
• Nomatophobia fear of names.
• Nosocomephobia fear of hospitals.
• Nosophobia fear of becoming ill.
• Nostophobia fear of returning home.
• Novercaphobia fear of your step-mother.
• Nucleomituphobia fear of nuclear weapons.
• Nudophobia fear of nudity.
• Numerophobia fear of numbers.
• 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.
• Ochophobia fear of vehicles.
• Octophobia fear of the figure 8.
• Odontophobia fear of teeth or dental surgery.
• Odynophobia fear of pain.
• Oenophobia fear of wines.
• Oikophobia fear of home surroundings, house.
• Olfactophobia fear of smells.
• Ombrophobia fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Ommetaphobia fear of eyes.
• Oneirophobia fear of dreams.
• Oneirogmophobia fear of wet dreams.
• Onomatophobia fear of hearing a certain word or of names.
• Ophidiophobia fear of snakes.
• Ophthalmophobia fear of being stared at.
• Optophobia fear of opening one’s eyes.
• Ornithophobia fear of birds.
• Orthophobia fear of property.
• Osmophobia fear of smells or odours.
• Ostraconophobia fear of shellfish.
• Ouranophobia fear of heaven.
• Pagophobia fear of ice or frost.
• Panthophobia fear of suffering and disease.
• Panophobia fear of everything.
• Papaphobia fear of the Pope.
• Papyrophobia fear of paper.
• Paralipophobia fear of neglecting duty or responsibility.
• Paraphobia fear of sexual perversion.
• Parasitophobia fear of parasites.
• Parthenophobia fear of virgins or young girls.
• Pathophobia fear of disease.
• Patroiophobia fear of heredity.
• Parturiphobia fear of childbirth.
• Peccatophobia fear of sinning or imaginary crimes.
• Pediculophobia fear of lice.
• Pediophobia fear of dolls.
• Pedophobia fear of children.
• Peladophobia fear of bald people.
• Pellagrophobia fear of pellagra.
• Peniaphobia fear of poverty.
• Pentheraphobia fear of mother-in-law.
• Phagophobia fear of swallowing or of eating or of being eaten.
• Phalacrophobia fear of becoming bald.
• Phallophobia fear of a penis
• Pharmacophobia fear of taking medicine.
• Phasmophobia fear of ghosts.
• Phengophobia fear of daylight or sunshine.
• Philemaphobia fear of kissing.
• Philophobia fear of falling in love or being in love.
• Philosophobia fear of philosophy.
• Phobophobia fear of phobias.
• Photoaugliaphobia fear of glaring lights.
• Photophobia fear of light.
• Phonophobia fear of noises or voices or one’s own voice; of telephones.
• Phronemophobia fear of thinking.
• Phthiriophobia fear of lice.
• Phthisiophobia fear of tuberculosis.
• Placophobia fear of tombstones.
• Plutophobia fear of wealth.
• Pluviophobia fear of rain or of being rained on.
• Pneumatiphobia fear of spirits.
• Pnigophobia fear of choking of being smothered.
• Pocrescophobia fear of gaining weight.
• Pogonophobia fear of beards.
• Poliosophobia fear of contracting poliomyelitis.
• Politicophobia fear or abnormal dislike of politicians.
• Polyphobia fear of many things.
• Poinephobia fear of punishment.
• Ponophobia fear of overworking or of pain.
• Porphyrophobia fear of the color purple.
• Potamophobia fear of rivers or running water.
• Potophobia fear of alcohol.
• Pharmacophobia fear of drugs.
• Proctophobia fear of rectums.
• Prosophobia fear of progress.
• Psellismophobia fear of stuttering.
• Psychophobia fear of mind.
• Psychrophobia fear of cold.
• Pteromerhanophobia fear of flying.
• Pteronophobia fear of being tickled by feathers.
• Pupaphobia fear of puppets.
• Pyrexiophobia fear of Fever.
• Pyrophobia fear of fire.
• Radiophobia fear of radiation, x-rays.
• Ranidaphobia fear of frogs.
• Rectophobia fear of rectum or rectal diseases.
• Rhypophobia fear of defecation.
• Rhytiphobia fear of getting wrinkles.
• Rupophobia fear of dirt.
• Russophobia fear of Russians.
• Samhainophobia fear of Halloween.
• Sarmassophobia fear of love play.
• Satanophobia fear of Satan.
• Scabiophobia fear of scabies.
• Scatophobia fear of faecal matter.
• Scelerophibia fear of bad men, burglars.
• Sciophobia fear of shadows.
• Scoleciphobia fear of worms.
• Scolionophobia fear of school.
• Scopophobia fear of being seen or stared at.
• Scotomaphobia fear of blindness in visual field.
• Scotophobia fear of darkness.
• Scriptophobia fear of writing in public.
• Selachophobia fear of sharks.
• Selaphobia fear of light flashes.
• Selenophobia fear of the moon.
• Seplophobia fear of decaying matter.
• Sesquipedalophobia fear of long words.
• Sexophobia fear of the opposite sex.
• Siderodromophobia fear of trains or train travel.
• Siderophobia fear of stars.
• Sinistrophobia fear of things to the left or left-handed.
• Sinophobia fear of Chinese, Chinese culture.
• Sitophobia fear of food or eating.
• Soceraphobia fear of parents-in-law.
• Social Phobia fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
• Sociophobia fear of society or people in general.
• Somniphobia fear of sleep.
• Sophophobia fear of learning.
• Soteriophobia fear of dependence on others.
• Spacephobia fear of outer space.
• Spectrophobia fear of spectres or ghosts.
• Spermatophobia fear of germs.
• Spheksophobia fear of wasps.
• Stasibasiphobia fear of standing or walking.
• Staurophobia fear of crosses or the crucifix.
• Stenophobia fear of narrow things or places.
• Stygiophobia fear of hell.
• Suriphobia fear of mice.
• Symbolophobia fear of symbolism.
• Symmetrophobia fear of symmetry.
• Syngenesophobia fear of relatives.
• Syphilophobia fear of syphilis.
• Tachophobia fear of speed.
• Taeniophobia fear of tapeworms.
• Taphephobia fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
• Tapinophobia fear of being contagious.
• Taurophobia fear of bulls.
• Technophobia fear of technology.
• Teleophobia fear of definite plans.
• Telephonophobia fear of telephones.
• Teratophobia fear of bearing a deformed child.
• Testophobia fear of taking tests.
• Tetanophobia fear of lockjaw, tetanus.
• Teutophobia fear of German or German things.
• Textophobia fear of certain fabrics.
• Thaasophobia fear of sitting.
• Thalassophobia fear of the sea.
• Thanatophobia fear of death or dying.
• Theatrophobia fear of theatres.
• Theologicophobia fear of theology.
• Theophobia fear of gods or religion.
• Thermophobia fear of heat.
• Tocophobia fear of pregnancy or childbirth.
• Tomophobia fear of surgical operations.
• Tonitrophobia fear of thunder.
• Topophobia fear of certain places or situations.
• Toxiphobia fear of poison or of being accidently poisoned.
• Traumatophobia fear of injury.
• Tremophobia fear of trembling.
• Trichinophobia fear of trichinosis.
• Trichopathophobia fear of hair.
• Triskaidekaphobia fear of the number 13.
• Tropophobia fear of moving or making changes.
• Trypanophobia fear of injections.
• Tuberculophobia fear of tuberculosis.
• Tyrannophobia fear of tyrants.
• Uranophobia 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.
• Vertigo – dizzyness and spinning (often mistaken for fear of heights)
• Vestiphobia fear of clothing.
• Virginitiphobia fear of rape.
• Vitricophobia fear of step-father.
• Wiccaphobia: fear of witches and witchcraft.
• Xanthophobia fear of the colour yellow or the word yellow.
• Xenoglossophobia fear of foreign languages.
• Xenophobia fear of strangers or foreigners.
• Xerophobia fear of dryness.
• Xylophobia fear of wooden objects or forests.
• Xyrophobia fear of razors.
• Zelophobia fear of jealousy.
• Zeusophobia fear of God or gods.
• Zoophobia fear of animals.