Anxiety tricks your Mind into believing your life is in danger

Anxiety is much more than being ‘worried’ about a situation. People without anxiety simply don’t understand the feeling you get when you feel anxious and will try to encourage you by saying “don’t worry about it” or “can’t you just try” and the classic “what’s the worst that could happen?” – what’s the worst that could happen? I could die!

The anxious feeling is so powerful that it fires off the minds flight, fight or freeze response by reacting to the stimulus as if it is a life-threatening danger. In this emotional state, your mind creates a strong association between the stimulus and the anxious feeling, creating a subconscious programme so when you come across the stimulus a second time, your mind fires the anxious feeling creating the flight, fight or freeze response which reinforces this learned behavior

Your mind’s only goal is to keep you safe. The way the mind has evolved to keep you from harm has a negative side-effect, it makes you respond to a stimulus with an emotional response that isn’t the best response for the situation; why fear a job interview – this is a none threatening environment; a none poisonous spider can do you no harm but a phobic response feels like your only option

Change the programme

To overcome your anxiety you simply need to change the programme in your brain, evolving your mind.

You can change your emotional response to the stimulus by following this 3-day programme. Each day you need to complete the following exercise (each one only lat 15 minutes). Yes within 3 days you can reduce the feeling of anxiety to such a level that the stimulus will no longer have the same previous effect

Day 1 – create stillness

Day one is simple. All you need to do is learn how to create stillness; the feeling of peace and relaxation. Many anxious people walk around with fear, worry or anxiety. They constantly use self talk to reinforce their view of the world and at a subconscious level search for evidence to reinforce why being anxious to a particular stimulus will help to keep them safe – the mind’s main goal.

Compare this to a none anxious person, who does feel fear and anxiety, as this feeling is a natural response. But they are able to let this feeling go, and move into the state of calmness and confidence.

The first technique will teach you how to access the feeling of relaxation and calmness that is needed to become anxious free

Read the relaxation script below, take particular notice of the ‘focus on your breathing’ section (highlighted in bold) as this rhythmic breathing exercise sends a relaxation signal to your mind to turn off the flight, fight and freeze response, and turns on the safe response. Once you have read the instructions, re-read the script, and follow the directions. Once you have completed this exercise a few times, you can complete it without having to read the instructions which will result in a deeper state of relaxation

Take a deep breath relax and relax

Start to breath in through your nose and out through your mouth and continue to relax 

Focus on your breathing; take a long deep breath in through your nose for 4 seconds, hold this breath for 3 seconds, then release the breath deeply for 4 seconds and repeat this pattern 3 times

As you continue to relax, focus on the muscles in your face, tense the muscles in your forehead and then relax them and notice the difference in the feeling

Loosen the jaw; this is where we collect stress. Wiggle the jaw a little and let it relax

Tense the muscles in the neck and shoulders, hold the muscles tight for a few seconds and relax them

Now tense the muscles your arms and squeeze your hands into tight fist, then let them go, let them relax 

Next tense all of the muscles in your chest and stomach, hold them for a few seconds and let them go, let them relax 

Finally move down to your legs, hold those muscles tight; your thigh, calf and feet and then let it become loose and relax.

Just continue to sit there for a few more minutes, thinking about nothing and everything at the same time. Until you feel just the right amount of relaxation throughout your whole body 

Day 2 – make a 1% change each week

Making a big change can be hard to implement without support. Instead, you can make a number of 1% changes in your life, which has a positive compound effect on your anxiety.

Research has given evidence that shows that drinking 6-8 glasses of water per day, exercising, relaxing, eating healthily, having positive relationships – someone to talk to, embedding a good routine, reducing alcohol and caffeine can have a positive effect on your anxiety.

Because we are habitual creatures, it is difficult to make a massive change to our lives – as an example, to go from drinking 8 cups of coffee a day to being caffeine-free. Instead, you can make 1% weekly changes in your life.

Talk to 1% more to people when you are feeling down, reduce the amount of coffee you drink by one cup and increase water intake by 1%, exercise for 1% longer each week and eat healthier meals by 1%. If you make several changes by 1% each week, the compound effect will have a large impact in your life long term – this exercise embeds long term change and reduces the chances of you returning to an anxious state

Day 3 – become anxiety free

Day 3 is key to being able to face the stimulus and to feel a level of calmness that allows you to make a choice – do you need to flight, fight or freeze (this response is needed in certain situations) or choose to feel calm and confident

This exercise comes in 3 steps

Step 1 – create calmness. Using the exercise in day 1 get yourself in a state of deep relaxation (this is why hypnotherapy is so powerful because the therapist first creates a deep state of relaxation as this changes how the mind will react to the change process)

Step 2 – create distance. Imagine being on a long road, path or at the entrance of a long bridge (any straight piece of land that doesn’t create any fear within you IE if you are phobic of bridges use the path example)

Refocus on the feeling of relaxation; if you need to relax more repeat the rhythmic breathing section of the exercise

Looking into the distance you notice something but you cant really make it out, maybe you become a little intrigued

Start to walk along the path, as you move up the path the thing at the other side becomes clearer. Refocus on the feeling of relaxation; if you need to relax more repeat the rhythmic breathing section of the exercise

As you continue to walk with confidence and calmness along the path you can now make out the stimulus, the thing that use to make you anxious, but it is far away, small, and it’s hard to make out the details. Refocus on the feeling of relaxation; if you need to relax more repeat the rhythmic breathing section of the exercise

Continue to walk along the path focusing of the feeling of calmness, sometimes you may want to stop and complete the full exercise from day one, or simply focusing on the feeling of confidence will help instill confidence within you. You can now make out the stimulus clearly and you feel calm and confident, but it is still far away.

As you get close, focus on the feeling of relaxation; if you need to relax more repeat the rhythmic breathing section of the exercise, and continue to walk towards the stimulus with this new feeling

Step 3 – repeat and embed. The first experience of the above step is the hardest, repeat 3-5 times and you will notice that the anxiety reduces with each path walk and your confidence increases

Chris Delaney NLP Life Coach, Hypnotherapist and Career Advisor is available for booking for One to One Private Sessions, Group Training Sessions and Public Speaking Events

Chris Delaney is also a published author “The 73 Rules of Influencing the Interview – using Psychology, NLP and Hypnotic Persuasion Techniques” and his latest book “Evolve the Mind – the 7 rules to mind evolution” 

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Fear, Anxiety and Phobia List

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 airbourne noxious substances;

Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high places;

Aeronausiphobia- Fear of vomiting secondary to airsickness;

Agateophobia- Fear of insanity;

Agliophobia- Fear of pain;

Agoraphobia- Fear of open spaces or of being in crowded, public places like markets; 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;

Angrophobia – Fear of anger or of becoming angry;

Ankylophobia- Fear of immobility of a joint;

Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- 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;

Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth;

Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of spiders;

Arithmophobia- Fear of numbers;

Arrhenphobia- Fear of men;

Arsonphobia- Fear of fire;

Asthenophobia- Fear of fainting or weakness;

Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning;

Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space;

Asymmetriphobia- Fear of asymmetrical things;

Ataxiophobia- Fear of ataxia;

Ataxophobia- Fear of disorder or untidiness;

Atelophobia- Fear of imperfection;

Atephobia- Fear of ruin or ruins;

Athazagoraphobia- Fear of being forgotton;

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 odor;

Automatonophobia- Fear of ventriloquist’s dummies, animatronic creatures, wax statues anything that falsly represents a sentient being;

Automysophobia- Fear of being dirty;

Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself;

Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying;

Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes;

Bacteriophobia- Fear of bacteria;

Ballistophobia- Fear of missiles or bullets;

Bolshephobia- Fear of Bolsheviks;

Barophobia- Fear of gravity;

Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to stand; 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, such as frogs, newts, salamanders, etc;

Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles; (Aichmophobia)

Bibliophobia- Fear of books;

Blennophobia- Fear of slime;

Bogyphobia- Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman;

Botanophobia- Fear of plants;

Bromidrosiphobia or Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells;

Brontophobia- Fear of thunder and lightning;

Bufonophobia- Fear of toads;

Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness;

Cainophobia or Cainotophobia- Fear of newness, novelty;

Caligynephobia- Fear of beautiful women;

Cancerophobia or 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;

Cherophobia- Fear of gaiety;

Chionophobia- Fear of snow;

Chiraptophobia- Fear of being touched;

Chirophobia- Fear of hands;

Chiroptophobia- Fear of bats;

Cholerophobia- Fear of anger or the fear of cholera;

Chorophobia- Fear of dancing;

Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia- Fear of money;

Chromophobia or Chromatophobia- Fear of colors;

Chronophobia- Fear of time;

Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks;

Cibophobia- Fear of food;

Claustrophobia- Fear of confined spaces;

Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia- 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 or Cleithrophobia- 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 feces;

Consecotaleophobia- Fear of chopsticks;

Coulrophobia- Fear of clowns;

Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations;

Cremnophobia- Fear of precipices;

Cryophobia- Fear of extreme cold;

Crystallophobia- Fear of crystals or glass;

Cyberphobia- Fear of computers;

Cyclophobia- Fear of bicycles;

Cymophobia Fear of waves;

Cynophobia- Fear of dogs or rabies;

Cypridophobia Fear of prostitutes;

Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions;

Defecaloesiophobia- Fear of painful bowels movements;

Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner conversations;

Dementophobia- Fear of insanity;

Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of demons;

Demophobia- Fear of crowds; 

Dendrophobia- Fear of trees;

Dentophobia- Fear of dentists;

Dermatophobia- Fear of skin lesions;

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;

Disposophobia- Fear of throwing stuff out; Hoarding;

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;

Electrophobia- Fear of electricity;

Eleutherophobia- Fear of freedom;

Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting;

Enetophobia- Fear of pins;

Enochlophobia- Fear of crowds;

Enosiophobia – Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism;

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 lonliness;

Ereuthrophobia- Fear of blushing;

Ergasiophobia- Fear of work or functioning; 

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 redlights

Febriphobia Fear of fever;

Felinophobia- Fear of cats;

Francophobia- Fear of France;

Frigophobia- Fear of cold;

Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of cats;

Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or French culture; 

Gamophobia- Fear of marriage;

Geliophobia- Fear of laughter;

Gelotophobia- Fear of being laughed at;

Geniophobia- Fear of chins;

Genophobia- Fear of sex;

Genuphobia- Fear of knees;

Gephyrophobia – Fear of crossing bridges;

Germanophobia- Fear of Germany;

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 or Gynophobia- Fear of women;

Hadephobia- Fear of hell;

Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things;

Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning;

Haphephobia or Haptephobia- 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; 

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- Fear of the number 666;

Hierophobia- Fear of priests or sacred things;

Hippophobia- Fear of horses;

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia- Fear of long words;

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 homosexuality;

Hoplophobia- Fear of firearms;

Hydrargyophobia- Fear of mercurial medicines;

Hydrophobia- Fear of water or of rabies;

Hydrophobophobia- Fear of rabies;

Hyelophobia or Hyalophobia- Fear of glass;

Hygrophobia- Fear of liquids, dampness, or moisture;

Hylephobia- Fear of materialism or the fear of epilepsy;

Hylophobia- Fear of forests;

Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia- Fear of responsibility;

Hypnophobia- Fear of sleep or of being hypnotized;

Hypsiphobia- Fear of height;

Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor;

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 or Kainophobia- Fear of anything new, novelty;

Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat;

Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule;

Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down;

Katsaridaphobia- Fear of cockroaches;

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 color 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;

Logizomechanophobia- Fear of computers;

Logophobia- Fear of words;

Luiphobia- Fear of lues, syphillis;

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 color 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;

Muriphobia- Fear of mice;

Mycophobia- Fear of 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;

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;

Ommatophobia- Fear of eyes;

Omphalophobia- Fear of belly buttons;

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;

Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients;

Optophobia- Fear of opening one’s eyes;

Ornithophobia- Fear of birds;

Orthophobia- Fear of property;

Osmophobia – Fear of smells or odors;

Ostraconophobia- Fear of shellfish;

Ouranophobia – Fear of heaven

Pagophobia- Fear of ice or frost;

Panthophobia- Fear of suffering and disease;

Panophobia or Pantophobia- 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;

Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the 13th;

Parthenophobia- Fear of  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, esp erect;

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;

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

Quadraphobia- fear of the number four;

Quadriplegiphobia- fear of quadriplegics;

Quintaphobia- fear of the number five;

Radiophobia- Fear of radiation, x-rays;

Ranidaphobia- Fear of frogs;

Rectophobia- Fear of rectum or rectal diseases;

Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a rod;

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 fecal matter;

Scelerophibia- Fear of bad men, burglars;

Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows;

Scoleciphobia- Fear of worms;

Scolionophobia- Fear of school;

Scopophobia or Scoptophobia- 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, railroads 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; 

Snakephobia- Fear of snakes; 

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 specters or ghosts;

Spermophobia- 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;

Stigiophobia- 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;

Teniophobia- 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 or fear of monsters or deformed people;

Testophobia- Fear of taking tests;

Tetanophobia- Fear of lockjaw;

Textophobia- Fear of certain fabrics;

Thaasophobia- Fear of sitting;

Thalassophobia- Fear of the sea;

Thantophobia- 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, such as stage fright;

Toxicophobia- Fear of poison or of being accidentally 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 or Ouranophobia- 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;

Vestiphobia- Fear of clothing;

Virginitiphobia- Fear of rape;

Vitricophobia- Fear of step-father;

Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons;

Wiccaphobia: Fear of witches and witchcraft;

Xanthophobia- Fear of the color 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; 

Xyrophobia-Fear of razors

Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy;

Zeusophobia- Fear of God or gods;

Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat;

Zoophobia- Fear of animals;