Strange Phobias

A phobia is an intense fear of any object, place or situation that often causes elevated stress and suffering. The most common symptoms of anxiety, nausea, sweating, dry mouth, panic attack, breathlessness and feeling of helplessness.

There are many serious phobias that greatly affect the life of any individual but apart from that there are some strange fears or strange phobias that no body can even think or imagine. Many people suffer from phobias like fear of flying, fear of laughter and fear of spider. These unusual and strange fears often lead to elevated stress and a sense of impending death.

Some of the commonly found strange phobias are as follows :

Allodaxaphobia - Fear of the opinions of other people.
Barophobia - Fear of gravity.
Chromophobia - Fear of colours.
Dextrophobia - Fear of objects at the right side of the body.
Euphobia - Fear of hearing good news.
Francophobia - Fear of France or French culture.
Genuphobia - Fear of knees.
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.
Ideophobia - Fear of ideas.
Japanophobia - Fear of the Japanese.
Optophobia - Fear of opening one's eyes.
Plutophobia - Fear of wealth.
Selenophobia - Fear of the moon.
Uranophobia - Fear of heaven.