Talk:Germaphobia

"Germaphobia is a term used to describe a pathological fear of germs."

Apparently, it's not! I personally thought it was germophobia; I did a quick google test, and tested for -phobic and -phobia. I got a different winner for each suffix, but more importantly there were not that many hits. I then tried checking online dictionaries and other resources, including lists of "-phobias", like http://www.phobialist.com/ and I only found miso/mysophobia and bacteriophobia.

--Cotoco 09:37, 28 July 2006 (UTC)

Rename?
This should be renamed Mysophobia, the real name for the disorder, with germaphobia redirecting to it.


 * There is now an article for mysophobia. I don't know which name the article should have, but I do believe the two need to be merged. Tinlinkin 06:56, 28 November 2006 (UTC)

Germaphobia is a made up expression. Fear of clowns is "coulrophobia" not 'clownophobia." Fear of the embarassing situations is "agoraphobia" not "ebarassophobia."  Fear of spiders is "Arachnophobia" not "Spiderophobia."

Consider it done. There really is no reasonable argument for the articles location here. I moved it to Mysophobia, with a cleanup for proper wording, and added a re-direct from germaphobia. -Thebdj 05:17, 4 December 2006 (UTC)