25 shocking phobias that you did not even know about

Just do not say that you are not afraid of anything. Each of us has his own Achilles' heel. And uncontrolled fear, not given to a full logical explanation, a fear that completely dominates your emotions, turns into a phobia, which over time can intensify.

Moreover, many do not even suspect that they can panically fear something until they are left alone with it. Today, let's talk about something that the enemy does not want.

1. Consecotaleophobia

Your friend constantly eats sushi with a spoon, a fork, finally with his hands, but certainly not with chopsticks? Think, maybe, at it or him konsekotaleofobija? For these people to eat with wooden appliances is equivalent to eating food from an acute knife. Poor people, what can I say ...

2. Sinistrophobia

If you are left-handed, you can scare those who have this phobia to death. Moreover, this fear concerns not only those who do everything not with their right hand, but everything that is on the left side. You will not believe, but if sinistrophobia is started, then it is possible that a person will be afraid of his left hand.

3. Litikaphobia

And here we are dealing with fear of the court, any lawsuits. Moreover, litaphobia is manifested in the fact that a person unreasonably begins to fear that someone will sue him.

4. Falacro phobia

And this fear is most often found among the strong half of humanity. Let the knights of modern times and not ready to admit it, but many men are afraid of panic baldness. Moreover, such a person begins to fall into despair at the sight of several fallen hairs. It is possible that at a subconscious level this phobia arises in response to the fear of getting cancer. But there are those who are afraid of bald people - peladophobes. If we talk about the nature of the emergence of this fear, then, perhaps, the foundation of its development has laid some kind of incident.

5. Crowphobia

After the release of the film "It" many people began to be afraid of clowns. In most cases, in childhood, the child frightened his image. Unprocessed fear in adult life grew into a phobia. I do not want to frighten anybody, but in 1978 a serial killer called the Clown-killer was walking in the US.

6. Phobophobia

Here everything is clear. Phobia phobia is a fear of fear. It is close to panic attacks. The most terrible thing is that it is like a self-fulfilling prophecy. A person is constantly in anticipation of the appearance of something bad. His life is subject to a constant sense of fear. Did his heart pound? All, the poor fellow moans and groans and starts to call an ambulance.

7. Ephebophobia

Do you dislike adolescents? It seems to you that teenagers are the most evil people on the planet, and if a group of young hooligans comes to meet you, you begin to sweat, you have a faster heartbeat and want to sink through the ground? It is possible that in your life there was a place of ephebophobia - disgust, fear of adolescents.

8. Philophobia

Most people want to be loved and one day to meet the love of their whole life. But for some it's a terrible prospect. The fear of love, the fear of falling in love - many of us are subject to it. In most cases, the reason is unhappy love, which once was in the life of philophobia.

9. Katysophobia

No, thank you, I'll stand. Bedolagi are afraid to sit. They will not be envied. Often this phobia occurs in those who suffered a lot from hemorrhoids, which took place in severe form. And even if the disease is far in the past, sowing, a person embraces a wild fear, the thought that all unpleasant sensations will return again.

10. Hippopotomonstostescipedalophobia

Have you mastered this term? However strange it may sound, this name is characterized by the fear of long words. Sometimes you can find another - sesquipedalophobia. A person is afraid of writing, reading and hearing long words from others. According to statistics, every 20 people suffer from this phobia. If you are not afraid of words like "tiflursurdooligofrenopedagogika", then there is no reason for sadness.

11. Scripthofobia

If you are afraid to write anything in public places, it can become a disturbing bell, indicating that you have been knocked into your life by a scriptophobia. It is interesting that this fear can manifest itself in different ways: someone can not complete any school essay, and someone is crazy about writing texts in the dark.

12. Blenophobia

This fear develops in particularly squeamish people, those who have a feeling of disgust turned into something unhealthy. And what do you think is hidden under the name "blenophobia"? Fear of mucus. When she sees such a person there is a strong fright, heart rate increases, there is an attack of nausea and vomiting. Often he loses self-control.

13. Novekofobiya

And this is something very interesting. It's the fear of ... stepmother. Often the reason for this is a bad experience in childhood. By the way, the relative of this phobia is vitricophobia, the fear of stepfather.

14. Aulophobia

People who have aulophobia can only sympathize. They faint from the sound of a flute. Moreover, their state of health instantly worsens if they see this musical instrument. Aulophobes experience panic attacks and inexplicable horror during a visit to the Philharmonic.

15. Gaptophobia

It is difficult to imagine what is happening with haptophobes when they travel in crowded public transport. These people are afraid of touch from the surrounding people and this list includes not only strangers, but also members of their family. It seems to them that touching is an intrusion into their personal space, which can tarnish a person. Psychologists say that the reason for this is either a nervous breakdown, or a child's trauma of a physical, sexual nature, or a neurosis of obsessive states.

16. Eufobia

Who of us is pleased to hear the bad news that brings with it the continuous negative emotions? Now imagine that there are people who are afraid .... good news. Experts argue that such persons unknowingly accentuate the negative, and therefore they are sure that good news comes from bad ones, which can lead them out of balance.

17. Hexacosoyahexecontacthexafobia

Agree, it's hard to read this word, but to understand the reason for such fear is even more difficult. So, there are people who panic fear the number 666. There are rumors that this is the number of Lucifer, and therefore in most cases he is afraid of devout people, priests and all those who seek ambition. By the way, on June 6, 2006 (June 6, 2006) in the Netherlands, the World Organization of Christian Evangelists called on all believers to organize 24-hour round-the-clock prayers on that day in order to "prevent the forces of evil from triumphing."

18. Nomophobia

This is, perhaps, the fear of the 21st century. Nomophobes panically fear to leave home without their gadget. They can not imagine their life without a mobile phone. According to British studies, about 53% of mobile phone users in the UK admitted that they are worried when they "lose their mobile phone, it runs out of battery power or funds on the account, or when it is outside the coverage of the cellular network." About 58% of men and 47% of women experience similar fears, and another 9% experience when their mobile phones are turned off.

19. Deepnophobia

If you have a friend who never suits a feast, and he does not take part in such a feast? Nobody excludes, that deipnophobia is his case. These people alone the thought that it will be necessary to maintain a secular conversation with unfamiliar people, eat with them, is driving people crazy. They have a panic fear of talking over food, and therefore rarely go to visit and do not invite to themselves.

20. Kenophobia

It is the fear of large empty spaces. For example, kenophobia can provoke the presence of a person in a large empty hall or in a deserted area. It is able to scare him to death. Often in a house with such a person all the rooms are filled up with furniture, things that are long overdue. It is clear that, even without realizing it, he tries to fill them with all the free space.

21. Pogonophobia

Here's another fear of modernity. Pogonophobia is susceptible to many women. This is the fear of the beard and, of course, the bearded men. The cause of this obsessive fear is an unpleasant situation, which has been postponed for a long time in the mind. Fortunately, there is no genetic predisposition to this phobia.

22. Gelotophobia

Often, those who suffer from Gelotophobia are called people with Pinocchio Syndrome. So, this is the fear of ridicule from others, their opinion. Often such a person tries many times to consider his further action, carefully weighs all the pros and cons of what he is going to say. And he does it in order to anticipate the opponent's reaction to his words, deeds. If you believe the statistics, the residents of Germany have a level of helotophobia - 11.65%, Austria - 5.80%, China - 7.31% and Switzerland - 7.21%.

23. Glossophobia

It is also called logophobia. It's a phobia of speech. Here we have in view of the fear of public speaking, the fear of the stage or in general the fear of saying anything. It can have a partial character. So, a person easily communicates with relatives, but with strangers begins to stutter, does not know what to say. As for the reasons for the appearance of such a phobia, then you and once happened fright, and unwillingness to hear, see the reaction of society to spoken words, and even low self-esteem.

24. Chirophobia

And this is the fear of the hands. It's terrible that such people are afraid of their own hands. They believe that they sometimes live a strange life and can do whatever they want. Moreover, the chiropods can do harm not only to themselves, but also to others, explaining this by the fact that their hands are out of control. And the nature of the origin of this phobia should be looked for in childhood.

25. Panophobia

What could be worse than that in your life, nothing will ever change? It turns out that there are people who like it. Yes, yes, here we are dealing with panoramas. They are afraid of any change. Begin to lose consciousness when they realize that something bad is happening in their life. In most cases, a person with such a phobia is constantly in a troubled state, looking for confirmation of his fears and negative thoughts.