Aphobia is an irrational fear of something that's unlikely to cause harm. The word itself comes from the Greek word phobos, which means fear or horror. Hydrophobia, for example, literally translates to fear of water. When someone has a phobia, they experience intense fear of a certain objec...
More unusual phobias include the fear of open spaces (agoraphobia),the fear of running water (hydrophobia),and the fear of spiders (arachnid-phobia).And of course,snakes,mice,and various insects can all cause irrational fears out of all proportion to their size.Once ridiculed,such fears are ...
A fear of dirt is called mysophobia. There are names for fear of thunder, lightning, wide open spaces, people, crowd, darkness, water and many other things. A phobia expert tells us that in the coming of a phobia situation a person has what is called an “anxiety attack”. Blood ...