List of Unusual Phobias
There are many unusual phobias that people have developed. These phobias often involve some imaginary things or events and lead to anxiety, nausea and breathlessness. The extremity of this fear may also lead to panic attack.
Below is the list of some unusual phobias :
- Arachibutyrophobia : This is the irrational fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of one's mouth.
- Automatonophobia : This is the fear of ventriloquists' dummies.
- Geliophobia : This is the fear of laughter.
- Myrmecophobia : This s the fear of ants.
- Ochophobia : This is the fear of being in a moving automobile.
- Motorphobia : This is the fear of automobiles. In today’s modern world of technology, it has really become difficult to have a cure for people who have the fear of automobiles.
- Pediculophobia : This is the fear of lice. During the school days many children get lice from their classmates and their scalp starts itching. This gradually develops a fear of lice in many children.
- Peladophobia : This is the fear of bald people. These days many people have bold head and this makes real difficult to treat people with such phobias.
- Pentheraphobia : This is the fear of mothers-in-law. Many mother-in-laws are very strict, aggressive and harsh; they try to keep their daughter-in-law under their control. This tends to develop a fear in many of the married girls.
- Triskadekaphobia : This is the fear of the number thirteen. Number thirteen may have proved to be unlucky to many individuals and gradually become a fear for them.
- Paraskavedekatriaphobia : This is the fear of Friday the thirteenth. People who have this fear don’t even get up from their beds on this day.
- Urophobia : This is the fear of urinating or fear of urine. A very irrational and unimaginable fear but many do have this fear and it becomes difficult for them to survive unless they undergo a treatment.
- Gnomophobia : This is the fear of garden gnomes. This is most commonly developed during the early years of childhood due to some personal experiences or influences by televisions or any other media.
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