Odd Phobias

Mortanis

Mar 11 2006, 07:40 PM

Here are a bunch of phobias I just learned:

Anthropomorphobia — Fear or dislike of anthropomorphic traits. (basically personification)
Aphenphosmphobia, Chiraptophobia, Haphephobia, Haptephobia — Fear of being touched.
Clinophobia — Fear of going to bed or falling asleep.
Coulrophobia — Fear of evil clowns. (yes, the definition actually is evil clowns)
Emetophobia — Fear of vomiting
Ephebiphobia — Fear/dislike of teenagers.
Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — Fear of the number 666.
Paraskavedekatriaphobia — Fear of Friday the 13th.

Saint_Michael

Mar 11 2006, 08:00 PM

really i like to know how these names are made up Heck I can make one up right now

dokutrophobia- fear of being yelled at. <---not real

binaryphobia-fear of binary numbers. noooo not 100110100101

but yeha back to my first question I might be wrong about this but i think theirs like 2-300 different phobia's that have been classfied or something like that.

I highly recommend Coulrophobics do not see the movie it or you will go crazy hahahaha

Mortanis

Mar 11 2006, 08:05 PM

I think a lot of them are made using latin or greek terms... Hex is something for six.

Sprnknwn

Mar 12 2006, 12:23 AM

Some of them are vey curious... having clinophobia must be awful. I suppose a person which suffers from it refuses to go to bed, so he must be tired and weak all day. Sounds funny but I guess it isn´t at all.

And that fear of evil clowns, hahaha, very funny. They must have red or seen "It". Could be Pennywisephobia

Arigato

Mar 12 2006, 01:51 AM

With these strange names for phobias I wonder if there is actually a naming convention like there is for chemical compounds.

I have met someone with clinophobia (fear of going to sleep). He told me he was afraid of going to sleep because he feels that he won't wake up the next morning.

suhrlucky13

Mar 12 2006, 05:09 AM

I definitely have Coulrophobia — Fear of evil clowns i hate all clowns...

master_bacarra

Mar 12 2006, 06:05 AM

i have a fear of places with crowded people, those where you can barely get enough air to breathe because of so many people taking in the same air you're breathing in and out. i get tense when that happens. it gets sweaty because of less space to move around. it's not a pretty thing to experience something like that.

Albus Dumbledore

Mar 12 2006, 06:52 AM

i aksed a friend if she was Aphenphosmphobia and she said yes..then i asked her what it was and she says she didn't know...lol she likes hugs and i and so i said i guess no more hugs for you and told her what it was..she took it back..so two people learned a new thing in just as many minutes...lol thanx for posting it..i even printed it off for later :-D

rvalkass

Mar 12 2006, 10:54 AM

I have loads of books of random facts and things like that, and I found a few lists of weird phobias. Two of interest are phobiophobic which is someone who is scared of fear itself and scriptergophobic, which is someone who is afraid of writing and work

BordaForx

Mar 12 2006, 06:31 PM

QUOTE(Mortanis @ Mar 11 2006, 08:05 PM)

I think a lot of them are made using latin or greek terms... Hex is something for six.

Latin for six is (don't laugh, if you do, you're immature) sex.

one = unus
two = duos
three = tres
four = quattor
five = quinque
six = sex
seven = septem
eight = octo
nine = novem
ten = decem

So, yeah, a Latin scholar you are.

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Zinrgy

Oct 3 2007, 01:06 AM

im afraid of clowns(just the scary ones), bees, dying in a very stupid manner like gunshot or car accident, and giant red squid. im not sure where the clown thing came ffrom but i am allergic to bees. im definately not afraid to die. i am a big wave surfer and will challenge any wave anywhere but to be shot in a drive by or killed in a car accident freaks me out. its such sad way to go. some people might think dying in a wave is stupid but it's my passion so i cant complain. my parents didnt like it too muh but they got over it. the red squid thing... just watch the discovery channel when they search for these 300 foot long giant red squid at night. these things have beaks as big as your hands and they wrap up thier prey and squeeze them to death. look up pictures on google or something. im sure i will never encounter one but i'd rather see a shark then one of those suckers!

tamilsun

Jul 18 2007, 02:29 PM

Wow, so many phobias! I'd hate to be around someone with Sinistrophobia (fear of objects on the left side of body/left-handed), since I'm left handed...One thing that I find funny about one phobia, is the fear of long words. It's called Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Someone with that phobia would be afraid of the name, itself. I'd hate to have some of those phobias that I saw on the list at phobialist.com.

Trinika

Apr 3 2006, 05:54 AM

Pyrophobia – A fear of fire. This is the phobia that I possess. I sometimes go sleep fearing the house will catch on fire in the middle of the night, but like unicornrose said “Not all people with phobias have them all the time either” So most of the time I am fine.
I am actually more afraid of small fires like candles. I cannot stand being around candles.

unicornrose

Mar 29 2006, 06:53 AM

QUOTE(NovaTerra @ Mar 12 2006, 10:31 AM)

I found the whole thread interesting but I wanted to mention that in german six is sechs which is very close to pronounced like sex. There is a slight difference in the annunciation.

There is another phobia for fear of being touch. Anchraphobic or something. Not all people with phobias have them all the time either. Most of the time I am a very touchy feely type of person. But occationally I really don't like to be touched. It bothers me to the point of neurotic. It is not all the time thank goodness. Its just sometime. I have no idea why I get that way sometimes. Its just one of those crazy things that make me unique. LOL

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