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Metathesiophobia
Metathesiophobia refers to the fear of change.

Anatidaephobia

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Kabourophobia
Kabourophobia is the irrational fear of crabs(crustaceans).

This can relate to real life crabs as well as fictional crabs such as giant crabs seen in films and tv.

As of 19th November 2008 there are no celebrities or historical figures known to have suffered from kabourophobia.

Rhinophobia

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Podophobia
Podophobia (Greek: podo, "foot" or "feet" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent fear of feet. Podophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. Symptoms can include breathlessness, dizziness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, shaking, heart palpitations, or an anxiety attack.

Amaxophobia
Amaxophobia, ochophobia, or hamaxophobia (Greek: amaxa or hamaxa, "a carriage" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent fear of being in, or riding in, a vehicle. Amaxophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, cardiac arrhythmia, sweating, nausea, overall feelings of dread, and the fear of dying.

Cymophobia
Cymophobia, or kymophobia, (Greek: kymo, "wave" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent fear of waves or wave-like motions. Cymophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. Symptoms displayed when faced with a phobia typically include sweating, rapid heartbeat, avoidance behavior, difficulty breathing and intense anxiety.

Nomatophobia
Nomatophobia, or onomatophobia (Greek: onoma, "name" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of names or other words because of their meaning. Nomatophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. Symptoms can include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread.

Papaphobia
Papaphobia (Greek: πάππας, papa, "papacy" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent pathological fear of the pope or the papacy. A person with papaphobia may also be fearful of the Roman Catholic Church. Papaphobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. Symptoms can include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread.

Pithikosophobia


Pithikosophobia, or maimouphobia (Greek: φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent fear of monkeys. Pithikosophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger. People with phobias such as pithikosophobia may experience anxiety-related symptoms when exposed to their feared object or situation. The physical symptoms of pithikosophobia are the same as those that occur in the fight-or-flight response to genuine danger. Anxiety and fear can range from mild feelings of apprehension to a full-blown panic attack

Pyrexiophobia
Pyrexiophobia is the fear of fever.

Apotemnophobia
Apotemnofobie

Siderodromophobia
{expert-subject|Psychology}} Siderodromophobia (from the Greek σίδηρος - sideros, "iron", δρόμος - dromos, "running" and φόβος - phobos, "fear") is the fear of trains, railroads or train travel.

Siderodromofobia Сидеродромофобија

Phasmophobia
Phasmophobia is an abnormal and persistent fear of ghosts. It is also known as spectrophobia, the fear of ghosts, and the fear of specters. Phasmophobia often causes the sufferer to experience panic attacks. Phasmophobia is an irrational fear and although the sufferer is often aware of this irrationality, the fear can often interfere in aspects of the person’s life. If the phasmophobia is severe, this fear can have serious repercussions on the sufferer’s quality of life.

Definition
The word phasmophobia is derived directly from the Greek language with phasma meaning “ghosts or phantoms” and phobia meaning “to fear.” A person suffering from phasmophobia often experiences:

•	Feelings of dread

•	Shortness of breath

•	Irregular heartbeat and heart palpitations

•	Nausea

•	Sweating

•	Panic attacks

•	Paranoia

•	Hallucinations

A person suffering from phasmophobia knows that the fear is irrational yet often even the thought of a ghost or haunting is enough to set-off a reaction. Often a person who suffers from phasmophobia is not aware of the fear until exposed to a person already suffering from the fear or a potential haunted situation. For example, a tour of a known haunted area with experienced paranormal ghost hunters might instigate phasmophobia in a person. These ghost hunters often take groups of people on tours of buildings and sites to bring about paranormal activity or sightings.

Mass Hysteria
Haunted Mass Hysteria or Ghost Hysteria is a phenomenon that is noteworthy for contributing to phasmophobia. Often a person that had suffered no existing fear will develop phasmophobia after being exposed to a haunted situation in a group setting. In this situation the original phasmophobic will begin to display the symptoms associated with the fear of ghosts. The sociopsychological phenomenon known as mass hysteria has been documented to then spread to a vast majority of people in the area. This behavior is prevalent on haunted tours of sights where ghost sightings have been documented and where previous non-believers may become panic-stricken with phasmophobia. In extreme cases this can lead to chaotic behaviors from the afflicted sufferers.

The original The War of the Worlds broadcast in 1938 and the Salem Witch Trials are both documented cases of mass hysteria.

Treatments
Treatments such as hypnotherapy, neuro-linguistic programming (NLP), and energy psychology can be used when treating phasmophobia.

Hypnotherapy

Many therapists suggest using this method because it reprograms the subconscious of ones brain that may be a part of their fear. Hypnotherapy is a state that resembles sleep, but is provoked by suggestion that is very relaxing, with intense imagination and suggestibility. However, this is not an actual state of sleeping because one remains conscious and aware of their surroundings throughout the hypnosis.

This method frightens many people because one becomes very suggestible during this type of treatment. Controversially, hypnosis will not allow or control a person to act against his or her own will. It is simply an easy and effective way to treat aches, pains, illness, and other problems.

Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP)

This method of treatment analyzes how our body creates our reality. From this, we discover phobias as a direct result from the brains way of telling our bodies that we have created or constructed something that does not work well. Then our mind is “reprogrammed” so that Phasmophobia is reduced or minimized and frequently abolished. These sessions of NLP are speedy and efficient.

Energy Psychology

Emerging as one of the most efficient ways to treat Phasmophobia, studies show that it is also a safe, rapid, long-term, and effective treatment. This type of practice is derived from a theory that developed thousands of years ago and has the same basis as acupuncture, except with no needles. Many advantages of this treatment include quick change in behaviors, active in recovery, being in control and able to relax, thought patterns change quickly, develop skills and techniques that are useful throughout ones lifetime, and the ability to release the phobia-fast and easy.

Oneirophobia
A loosely coined term for the 'fear of dreams or dreaming', first originated in The Dream Frontier, written by Mark Blechner, a neuro-psychoanalyst at the William Alanson White Institute. This neologistic term is not officially accepted in the scientific community but has been loosely used to describe a persistent fear of dreams. To a certain extent, persons with oneirophobia may be afraid to sleep or to remember their dreams because they do not want to be reminded of or be exposed to the most intimate parts of their life that dreams usually represent. Oneirophobia can be overcome through repeated analysis of one's own dreams, using different procedures. A useful approach suggested by Blechner is to give the text of your dream to a friend, ask him to write down all of his thoughts about your dream, and then give them to you. Many of these may initially shock the dreamer, but gradually, over time, the dreamer can integrate those aspects of the dream that are hard to integrate.

Nosocomephobia
Nosocomephobia refers to the abnormal, persisting fear of hospitals.

Symptoms include: breathlessness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack.

Climacophobia
Climacophobia is the fear of climbing, especially the fear of climbing stairs or falling down stairs. Climacophobia is closely related to acrophobia, the fear of heights, and many people fear the height of stairs, because of a fear of falling from a great height.

Климакофобия

Aulophobia
Aulaphobia is the fear of flutes.

Amaxophobia
Amaxophobia, ochophobia, or hamaxophobia (Greek: amaxa or hamaxa, "a carriage" and φόβος, phobos, "fear") is an abnormal or persistent fear of being in, or riding in, a vehicle. Amaxophobia is a clinical phobia generally classified under specific phobias, fear of a single specific panic trigger.

Venustraphobia

 * venustraphobia the fear (phobia) of beautiful women
 * Venustraphobia (album) by Casbah Club, released in 2006

Simionphobia
Simionphobia is a zoophobia, linking to a phobia to non-human primates like monkeys or apes. In many parts of the world, many local peoples have extreme fears of their primate neighbors because they think they're either incarnations of evil people or jungle spirits that are half human, half beast. Many people fear monkeys because they spread diseases like rabies and anthrax or feared that they die when looking at them.

Cardiophobia

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Crystallophobia
Crystallophobia is the fear of crystalls or glass.
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Fecalphobia

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Episcophobia
Episcophobia is the irrational fear or hatred of bishops.

Chrematophobia

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Philophobia
Philophobia is defined as a persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of love and intimacy.

Lalophobia
Lalophobia (from the Greek lalein, to speak) is the irrational fear of speaking or of trying to speak. Unlike the fear of public speaking, glossophobia, lalophobics suffer from their condition to varying degrees. Some develop speech disorders or even selective mutism or total mutism. Psychological treatment, as opposed to speech therapy, can usually alleviate these symptoms, since they are not linked to any physical condition, like logoplegia or aphasia. In many cases, lalophobia leads to other conditions, such as social phobia. Historically, some lalophobics have been drawn to a cloistered or hermitic life.

Compare to: logorrhea

Lalofobia

Americanophobia
Americanophobia is an irrational, persistant hatred of Americans, America, and anything having to do with the United States of America. It is one of the last accepted prejudices in many parts of the world. Americanophobia is mostly found in Europe, particularly France, Germany, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom. As well as in Australia, New Zealand, and Canada. Americanophobia is racism, and is not only hurtful to the Americans but to the societies that accept it as well.

The term Americanophobia was coined by the blogger who goes by the name Virgomonkey, whose blog: Waging War on the Radical Right and the Radical Left, deals with the issues surrounding Americanophobia, and Anti-Americanism as well as with other current issues.

For more information on Americanophobia visit this link. 

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Bambakomallophobia
Bambakomallophobia is the phobia of cotton wool when touched, ripped apart or sometimes just on sight.

A phobia (from the Greek φόβος "Phobos" meaning Fear), is an irrational, intense, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one's control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made.

In the case of Bambakomallophobia the sufferer will experience symptoms from a mild unwillingness to touch or tear cotton wool apart to the fear of even touching it.

The name of the phobia is derived from the Greek for cotton, βαμβάκι (Bambaki) and wool μαλλί(malli)

Theophobia
Theophobia is a phobia of all gods or religious practices. It is often described as a hatred of theistic or monotheistic practices. It is sometimes described as a social phobia because of the social implications it carries with it.

Criticism
The very idea of Theophobia is considered ludicrous by many different opinions, and is often considered a myth created by theists to insult and degrade Atheism and disbelief and criticism of religious practices.

Sophophobia
Sophophobia is the fear of learning. The word comes from the greek word sophia meaning wise or wisdom.

Enochlophobia
Enochlophobia, also known as ochlophobia or demophobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by “an abnormal, persistent fear of crowds or mobs”. This is a social phobia that can have a huge impact on every aspect of the sufferer’s life. It is, however, curable according to modern psychological treatment techniques. Over 50 million Americans will suffer from a phobia and 35 million of these will have a social phobia, like enochlophobia. A social phobia is a “paralyzing fear at the prospect of social or professional encounters,” as compared with a panic disorder where “a person is periodically blindsided by an overwhelming fear for no apparent reason” or a specific phobia, including snakes and heights. “Enochlophobia is an intense fear of something that poses little or no actual danger. While adults with enochlophobia realize that these fears are irrational, they often find that facing, or even thinking about facing, the feared situation brings on a panic attack or severe anxiety.”  (Heering)

Causes
Many sufferers are afraid of:
 * Being trampled to death
 * Contracting a deadly virus
 * Getting lost in a massive crowd of people
 * And feeling small and insignificant compared to all those around them

Still others include:
 * Shy by nature
 * Unable to desensitize themselves from the emotions around them
 * Do not feel safe when they do not know the people surrounding them
 * Fearful of media coverage

Symptoms
The main symptoms of enochlophobia and many other phobias include: breathlessness, dizziness, excessive sweating, nausea, dry mouth, feeling sick, heart palpitations, inability to speak or think clearly, a fear of dying, becoming mad or losing control, a sensation of detachment from reality or a full blown anxiety attack. (Heering)

The main reaction of most individuals with a phobia is to flee the thing that they fear. Many people also spend a substantial amount of time and energy trying to avoid the situations that upset them. According to psychologist David H. Barlow, director of the Center for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Boston University who said, “the harder phobics work to avoid the things they fear, the more the brain grows convinced that the threat is real. The things you do to reduce anxiety just make it worse. We have to strip those things away.”

Treatments
There are many different treatment methods that range from the very simple acts of building up experience to the more complicated combinations of therapy, medication, and virtual reality. The basic strategies begin with:

(Burgess)
 * Going to group functions of increasing size
 * Visiting the metro area and not judging those that live there
 * Employing the affirmation “I am safer in crowds.”
 * Breathe deeply and in a controlled manner
 * Keep focus by listening to calming music through headphones
 * Talk with and to others more often in different situations

While these options give the individual a small chance to control themselves they are more just coping methods than actual treatments. “For most people, the treatment of phobias has been a cope-as-you go business: preflight cocktails for the fearful flyer, stairways instead of elevators for the claustrophobe. But such home-brew tactics are usually only stopgaps at best”.

Energy psychology
Many sufferers like this technique because “the cause of all negative emotions is a disruption in the body’s energy system…not in your thoughts, habits, beliefs, strategies or any other thing (although they do play a factor). Those are the ‘branches’. The energy system is ‘the root’” (Heering). This method is approximately 85% effective which is a huge step up from the 5% of people that go through a self-help type of program. This treatment does not work for many, however, because enochlopobia has become a large piece of the individual’s personality. They are afraid of what it would mean to give up this part of themselves. While, some believe that they can treat this fear with the same methods first but many individuals still refuse to part with their identity. The second reason that this type of therapy can be ineffective is because many people enjoy the talk therapy. It gives them a chance to overcome a little bit og their fear of being with others in a group because they are all sharing the same fear. This sense of validation is crucial to many sufferers.

Exposure therapy
Exposure therapy works on the idea that if a person is exposed to something little by little their tolerance for that thing increases. Steven Phillipson, clinical director of the Center for Cognitive-Behavioral Psychotherapy in New York City put it this way, “Just as people become habituated to the noise of traffic or background chatter, so too can phobics become nonresponsive to the thing that one frightened them.” With that habituation comes profound recovery. In studies recently conducted by Lars Goran Ost, a psychology professor at Stockholm University and one of the pioneers of one-day phobia treatments, a staggering 80% to 95% of patients get their phobias under control after just one session. And when symptoms disappear, they usually stay gone. Patients, he says, rarely experience a significant phobic relapse, and almost never replace the thing they no longer fear with a fresher phobia object.

Group therapy
For many social phobias but especially enochlophobia “group therapy works better than one-on-one therapy. It provides more than a supportive circle of fellow sufferers: the very act of gathering with other people can serve as a first, critical rebellion against the disorder” (Kluger). Talk can only ever get a person so far in the therapy process, at some point they have to actually face the physical fear, not just what is in their head. Group therapy is a convenient way to do this because the individual will already be comfortable in a therapy situation and are much more likely to be comfortable in a group where they know that everyone else it just as scared as they are.

Medications
Prozac, which appeared in the early 1990’s was the first in the family of psychopharmacological drugs. The majority of these medications are selective serotonin reuptake inhibitors (SSRIS). This means that they are able to selectively block the brain’s reabsorbtion of the neurotransmitter serotonin, which helps to produce feelings of satisfaction, which in turn helps to kick-start the recovery process. Paxil was the first drug officially approved specifically for the treatment of social-anxiety disorders. The line is increasing steadily but the results are still uncertain and all have to be couple with therapy.

Pupaphobia
Pupaphobia is an abnormal or exaggerated fear of puppets. While not as common as coulrophobia or anything down those lines, pupaphobia is slightly common. According to most victims of pupaphobia, the reason of the fear is usually due to the puppet's inanimate position and when a puppeteer puts on the puppet and begins to perform, the transition from being inanimate to full of life becomes too much for the victim to handle. It ranges from victim to victim; however, a person could not be frightened by the Muppets but be frightened by a ventriloquist's dummy or vice versa for instance.

Cyclophobia
"cyclophobia" is a phobia of bicylces or motorbikes. Sufferers of cyclophobia may refuse to do things with a bike ranging from refusal to look at a bike to just plain refusal to ride on a bike. Also it can vary. For example, I am a sufferer of cyclophobia and i am fine with motorbikes and sitting on a bicycle, but if i have to ride a bicycle I become extremly scared, and will probably run away.

The point is that I am fine with motorbikes/pushbikes, etc but I have a phobia of normal bicycles. The phobia may concern all means of bicyle related transport or just a bit of it. This variation also applys to other phobias^. Also, as with most other phobias, cyclophobia is most probably caused by a significant inncedent or inccedents that occured in childhood.

^for example, I am also claustrophobic but only when in a very small room with solid walls and a shut door or a cave, other sufferers may be claustrophobic in small rooms, trains, etc.


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Blennophobia

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Homichlophobia

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Mechanophobia

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Anthropophobia

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Lutraphobia

 * Underwater eyes, an eel’s
 * Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter... -Ted Hughes, 1988

Lutraphobia is a specific phobia, the abnormal fear of members of the subfamily lutrinae, otherwise known as otters, including the 13 species found in the genera Amblonyx, Aonyx, Enhydra, Lontra, Lutra, Lutrogale, and especially Pteronura.

Ichthyophobia
Defined as having an abnormal fear of fish.

To add insult to an already distressing condition, most Ichthyophobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.

External Sites

 * Trusted, Effective Treatment for Ichthyophobia
 * Ichthyophobia Treatment
 * Depression Guide Symptoms of Ichthyophobia

Gymnophobia
"Gymnophobia" is the fear of being seen and/or seeing others naked. The word comes from the Greek terms Gymnos, which means "naked", and Phobos, which means "naked".

Hagiophobia

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Porphyrophobia
Porphyrophobia is defined as "a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of the color purple". Each year this surprisingly common phobia causes countless people needless distress.

Scotophobia

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Koumpounophobia
Koumpounophobia is a phobia of buttons. It affects people of all ages and the reason for it occurring is not known. It is a relatively unknown phobia and this is the reason why most sufferers believe that they are the only ones afflicted by this phobia.

For many sufferers, the plastic buttons have a worse effect than the metal ones.

There are various degrees of infliction for sufferers when they see buttons. It ranges from simply choosing not to wear buttons, to cannot bear seeing others wear buttons, to not being able to eat in presence of someone wearing buttons and worse. For some people, the sight of buttons or the act of touching buttons might induce vomiting.

Optophobia
Optophobia is a phobia of opening one's eyes.

Parthenophobia
In psychology, Parthenophobia refers to an abnormal and persistent fear of virgins or young girls.

Symptoms

 * Loss of breath, breathlessness
 * Profuse sweating, everywhere, all over the body
 * Nausea, vomiting, sick feelings,
 * A feeling or sense of isolation or detachment from the world, from yourself, from reality, from the situation, from this article
 * Anxiety attacks, nervousness
 * Feelings of losing control, going crazy, insanity feeling
 * Cottonmouth, dry mouth
 * Incoherent, loss of thoughts
 * Heart palpitations
 * Unable to speak
 * Feeling of being paralyzed

Although many people with parthenophobia feel as if the thought of being near them [virgins], or even in close proximity, may bring on a feeling of a life threatening panic attack or severe anxiety: this is untrue. These adults understand that their thoughts may be irrational; however, they have no way of containing these tantamount feelings. These irrational thoughts lead to lives filled with loneliness and fear. The fear of going out in public because of being near these young girls. It leads to the inability to construct proper relationships as they get older for fear of having young girls.

This intense fear is an unpleasant feeling and irrational that many of these people feel as if they are alone in the situation. They feel as if they have nobody they can turn to or trust with their problem. Surprisingly there are other people who do in fact suffer from the same fears and who like them have to cope on their own. Through the help of treatment, therapy, and confidence one can get through this fear.

Energy Psychology
A safe, quick, and very effective away in releasing and forever losing ones fear of parthenophobia. Many recent scientific studies have proved it to be a successful treatment that has helped many of its patients dating thousands of years ago. Some say it is similar to acupuncture, but, instead of needles it is emotions that are the necessary tools needed. It first starts out by a parthenophobia changing their daily behaviors as soon as possible. The hardest part of this treatment is that it is the patient themselves who are responsible for their recovery. As long as they keep changing their daily behaviors from their previous ones the faster their thoughts will change. Patients who have changed their behaviors quickly, have also been able to change their thought patters almost immediately. This helps the patient to acquire skills and techniques in order to get past the feelings of parthenophobia.

Neuro-Linguistic Program
When starting this program the patient learns about how they have built up their reality. Patients with parthenophobia are taught how they have created their own reality. Then they are shown how people without parthenophobia create a different type of reality. The patients are taught how the phobia was initiated in their brain, how, that caused their thoughts and behaviors to act out in fear. Oftentimes it may reflect traumatic memories that may have happened to them when they were young. Many of these memories may have been repressed, or even be continuous thoughts staying with them until adulthood. Then they are taught how to recreate their program and minimize these fears until they have been eradiated. When they recreate these programs many times they are going through their old memories and discussing the traumatizing things that may have caused this fear. Then discussing why it was not as bad as it may have seemed. This is also quick and efficient, with the help and support from other people they are able to get through this.

Hypnotherapy
Sigmund Freud thought up the theory that there is a repression barrier that separates both the preconscious and subconscious. Although many people are unaware of thoughts from their subconscious these feelings are able to pass through the repression barrier and influence a persons thoughts and behaviors without the person being aware of it. Many times this may be a cause of fear, because of traumatic experiences from peoples past influencing what they do in the future. In this therapy a patient is hypnotized in order to transcend beyond their repressed barrier. Then the hypno-therapist is able to reprogram the persons subconscious that allocates with the persons fear. By reprogramming these fears it helps the patient to minimize and eliminate their parthenophobia.

Pediophobia
Pediophobia is a fear of any type of figures, such as dolls, mannequins, dummies, puppets, statues, wax figures, etc.

Pediophobia in popular culture

 * Chucky is the famous killer doll in the Child's Play series.
 * Stephen King wrote a X Files episode about a girl and her demon doll.
 * On a King of The Hill episode, Bobby Hill brought home a ventriloquist dummy which terrifies Dale Gribble.
 * House of Wax is a horror movie about Wax figures.
 * The Puppet Master Series are about puppets that come to life.
 * The Night of the Living Dummy series are popular RL Stine Goosebumps books.
 * Living Doll is an episode of the Twilight Zone series.
 * The movie Dead Silence is about a ghost of a female ventriloquist who was murdered and her ventriloquist dummies who kill people.
 * Brian Harnois from the Sci Fi's Ghost Hunters is afraid of dolls.

Pteronophobia
Pteronophobia is the irrational fear of being tickled by feathers, or the fear of feathers.

A) Symptoms Pteronophobia: Cannot sleep with pillows made with feathers, afraid of birds.

B) Possible Cures or Medicines

b1][Energy Psychology is an excellent therapy for phobias because in studies it is shown to be rapid, safe, effective and long-lasting. Energy Psychology has the same foundation or roots as acupuncture, except in this case there are no needles used. You could call it emotional acupuncture - without the needles.]

b2][Hypnotherapy helps to reprogram your subconscious conditions. When these conditions are removed, the symptoms of phobia are minimized. However, some people don't like the feeling - loss of control in allowing someone else to play with their personal-wellbeing]

Trypophobia
Trypophobia is the phobia of holes. Specifically, naturally occurring holes whether in clusters or not.

Zionophobia
Zionophobia is the term used to describe an irrational prejudice against the State of Israel or its people and military. The term is distinct from antisemitism which relates specifically to a similarly irrational prejudice against Jews, although the two concepts are often connected.

The concept has developed recently, in response to the bias against war crimes committed by theIDF in the world media. It is alleged that Israels military operations are often exaggerated or often deliberately misrepresented for Zionophobic reasons.

Lepidopteraphobia
Lepidopteraphobia is the extreme, irrational fear of butterflies, moths, and other members of the order lepidoptera. The sufferer may also fear dragonflies and other large winged insects. It is a fairly uncommon phobia.

Logo phobia
Logo phobia is an irrational, persistent fear of words. This phobia has all kinds of symptoms. Very common ones are silence, and, avoidance of public speaking. It could include stammering, re asking of what people say, constant need for reassurance because of the belief that whatever people say will come true, and many physical sensations when you don't get that reassurance as a logo phobic. Logo phobics avoid name calling, and, profanity. They cannot stand negativity being addressed to them from verbal attacks. Logo phobics demand apologies, and, retractions of the verbal attacks that have been addressed to them.

Physical Sensations
Common Physical Sensations In Logo phobia include dizziness, stammering, schizophrenia, emotional disturbance, body aches, weariness, tiredness, lack of energy, lethargy, high blood pressure, panic attacks, anxiety, fear of fainting, losing control, dying, or, going crazy. There could be even more physical sensations in logo phobia. These are just the most common ones.

Lutraphobia

 * Underwater eyes, an eel’s
 * Oil of water body, neither fish nor beast is the otter... -Ted Hughes, 1988

Lutraphobia is a specific phobia, the abnormal fear of members of the subfamily lutrinae, otherwise known as otters, including the 13 species found in the genera Amblonyx, Aonyx, Enhydra, Lontra, Lutra, Lutrogale, and especially Pteronura.

Megalophobia
Megalophobia is the fear of large objects.

Megalophobia is not a phobia in the usual clinical sense as people with megalophobia typically do not preemptively fear large objects, but they can get startled and can get panic attacks by the appearance of large objects. Frightening objects are most often man made structures and less often natural occurring objects like hills. Even knowing that a large object will appear will typically not help the megalophobic.

Examples of megalophobic events/symptoms include the patient being outside and hears an approaching airplane, looks up and expect to see an airplane, but when the patient sees the plane the plane is larger and/or closer than suspected and the patient gets startled and/or experiences a panic attack. Turning a corner and seeing a large structure like a windmill; nuclear power plant; oil refinery; crane;

Sufferes of Megalophobia can typically visit large cities like Manhattan, and be awestruck with the size of buildings, but not suffer from anxiety attacks or panic attacks. Seeing small unexpected objects will not trigger the panic attack. For a megalophobia event to occur both surprise and large objects has present.

Symptoms (similar to that of all other extreme phobias) can include, but are not limited to acute panic attack, breathing difficulty, rapid heartbeat, sweaty palms, and nausea. Sometimes, these feelings can become overwhelming.

Treatment for megalophobia is similar for that of all other phobias. Exposure to the stimulus is thought to be the most effective treatment, but deliberate slow, even breathing can help as well in some cases, as practiced in hypnotherapy.

Nosocomephobia
Nosocomephobia, or fear of hospitals, is obviously fear of hospitals. It is abnormal, although many people suffer from it. It can cause seperations from loved ones, panic attacks, breathlessness, excessive sweating, nausea, ect.

Computer phobia
Computer phobia is commonly believed to mean a fear of computers. However, the term is used quite loosely. Computer phobia does not necessarily require actual fear on a person's part but can also be used to describe general suspicion of computers. The amount of Computer phobia has risen since PCs became popular in the mid-1990s but has decreased in recent years.

A RinkWorks web-site called Computer Stupidities contains several dozens of stories from people who have had to deal with computer phobics or have encountered general unawareness on the part of the masses who buy Personal Computers.

Logizomechanofobie

Cleisiophobia
An abnormal and persistent fear of being locked in a confined place. This phobia is also known as cleithrophobia or clithrophobia.

Chronophobia
Chronophobia [chrono, derived from the Latin 'Chronos', meaning 'relating to time'] is an irrational, and sometimes extreme fear of time.

Demophobia
Demophobia is one term for a type of specific phobia involving irrational fear of crowds. Enochiophobia and Ochlophobia are terms with similar definitions.

Specific Phobias
A specific phobia is a type of anxiety disorder. The main feature of a specific phobia is that it is a significant and persistent fear of a clearly known, specific situation (such as making an error) or specific object (such as crowds). In specific phobias, the feared situation or object is avoided or endured with intense anxiety and distress. Exposure to the feared object or situation almost always causes anxiety. People with specific phobias realize their fear is excessive or unreasonable.

Classification
Demophobia is defined as “a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of crowds, despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger. Demophobia [is] a strong fear of, dislike of, or aversion to crowds.”

Demophobia is a lesser known phobia and is often mistaken for Agoraphobia which is the term for a fear of the outside or open spaces, but people suffering from Demophobia can walk outside at ease provided there are no crowds. Demophobia is probably a sub-category of Agoraphobia.

Demophobic Panic Attacks
A Demophobic panic attack occurs when the victim feels they are trapped and are unable to escape the crowd. Demophobic panic attack can be much more intense when in unfamiliar surroundings and can happen both inside and outdoors. A panic attack will normally result in breathlessness, nausea, heart palpitations and the inability to think clearly.

‘Demophobic attacks’ can occur outside and in the following places


 * Busy Markets
 * Fairgrounds
 * Busy Shopping Precincts

If a person who suffers Demophobia plans in advance for a crowded event such as a pop concert or the cinema, they normally don’t get panic attacks, though anxiety remains. Once a crowded area has become familiar (over the course of a few days to several weeks) crowded areas seem easier to handle unless it is exceptionally busy or crowded.

The best way to handle someone who is suffering from a Demophobic attack is to get them into familiar surroundings with as little fuss as possible. Solitude in familiar surroundings will speed recovery from a panic attack which can last from a few minutes to hours.

Topophobia

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Anoraknaphobia
Anoraknophobia, a fictional fear of anoraks may refer to one of the following:


 * Anoraknophobia, a Wallace and Gromit comic book.
 * Anoraknophobia, an album by Marillion.

Caligynephobia
Caligynephobia (or Venustraphobia) is the persistent and unwarranted fear or phobia of beautiful women, often experienced when physically interacting with an attractive female.

Effects and Symptoms
Caligynephobia is estimated to effect approximately 0.47% of males in Britain, and 0.61% in America. Its effects ultimately lead to a decrease in social and business activities, as communication with alluring women is generally attempted to be avoided where possible.

Thus symptoms are easily detectible and mostly harmless. They include shortness of breath, irregular heartbeat, perspiration (sweating), nausea and overal feeling of dread.

Traumatophobia

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Sinistrophobia

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Mustelophobia
Mustelophobia is the fear of weasels, or people who look like weasels. It may also relate to the fears of other small animals and rodents, but is generally specific to weasels.

Gynophobia
Gynophobia is the fear of or contempt of women.

Popular Culture

 * The character Guy Cecil from the Namco RPG Tales of the Abyss has Gynophobia.
 * The character Yukinari from the Anime Comedy Girls Bravo is a Gynophobic and breaks out in hives when he is touched by a female.