Strange phobias

[plindboe]

I'm looking through a list at wikipedia of different phobias, and can't help laughing at some of them. I bet it's not funny for the people who actually suffer from them, but it's difficult to take some of them seriously. Here, take a look:

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hodophobia

Some favorites so far:

Alliumphobia - the abnormal fear of garlic that may extend to a variety of plants characterized by their pungent odor including onions, leeks, chives, and shallots.

Allodoxaphobia - Fear of opinions.

Ambulophobia, Stasibasiphobia, Stasiphobia - Fear of walking or standing.

Anemophobia - Fear of air.

# Anablephobia - Fear of looking up.

Ancraophobia, Anemophobia - Fear of wind

Anthrophobia, Anthophobia - Fear of flowers.

# Apeirophobia - Fear of infinity.

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

# Arithmophobia - Fear of numbers.

Astrophobia - Fear of stars and celestial space.

# Aulophobia - Fear of flutes.

And that was just A.

 

[jambo372]

I may be slightly apeirophobic.

 

[Jeff Corey]

As noted on the site, most of those are neologisms created for a wordgame or joke.
They never existed as a medical condition.

 

[rebecca]

As noted on the site, most of those are neologisms created for a wordgame or joke.
They never existed as a medical condition.

Way to crap all over the funny, Jeff.

 

[plindboe]

As noted on the site, most of those are neologisms created for a wordgame or joke.
They never existed as a medical condition.

*Sigh* Yes, I see now. I noticed some were made up before, but didn't know most were. These two were pretty obvious, but still funny:

Aibohphobia - Fear of palindromes

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words.

 

[Dancing David]

Obsessive fears can be entertaining while somewhat debilitating.

I had a client with OCD who would avoid food with toothpicks in it, she had a compulsive fear that she would swallow one.

I had a compulsive thought that in some sort of afterlife I would have to eat all the stuff I threw away.

 

[hgc]

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

The Milk Producers Association is spreading this one through advanced mind control techniques.

 

[nimzov]

When I was younger, I had either Aibohphobia or Asymmetriphobia, I'm not sure which.

When I scatched my nose with my index of my right hand I had an urge to scratch immediatly after with le same finger from my left hand.

Also when I went down a spiral staircase I had an urge to "unwind" when I reached the floor. If I "winded" 2 rotation clockwise going down, I "unwinded" 2 turns counterclockwise when I reached the floor. Well actually I didn't do it that often, I could resist, but the urge was there.

nimzoozmin

 

[BillHoyt]

If this one catches on, it will ruin my business:

Venustraphobia - Fear of beautiful women

 

[scribble]

When I was younger I had an unnatural fear of mirrors -- yeah, yeah, I hear you, you're syaing you'd be scared too if you looked like me. Real funny, jerk.

Now my only real fears are death and eating insects. Death is obvious, you'd have to be silly to not fear it to some extent.

I'm convinced that I'm going to eat food that has a cockroach in it or drink a can of soda that has a dead mouse contained within, etc. This despite the fact that to the best of my knowledge, it's never happened to me, not so much as a spider on my snacks.

 

[Piscivore]

I'm convinced that I'm going to eat food that has a cockroach in it or drink a can of soda that has a dead mouse contained within, etc. This despite the fact that to the best of my knowledge, it's never happened to me, not so much as a spider on my snacks.

When I was a teen I nearly swallowed a cricket that had clambered into my can of Sprite. It was nasty. So was the bug. I spat it out. The bug, and the Sprite.

My mom swallowed a fly that crawled into her mouth while singing in choir. No, she didn't subsequently swallow anything else to destroy it.

My fear- besides a touch of agoraphobia and plain old everyday crippling acrophobia- is of getting a hair in my mouth.