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Ever feel like your heart is about to jump out of your chest because of a tiny spider or a long bridge? You aren't just 'scared', there’s actually a name for that. Here are 22 phobias that prove our brains are weirder than we think.
Think you’re fearless? Check this list of 22 phobias and see if you can make it to the end without finding yours.
Be honest: How many of these did you have to Google to make sure they were real? Let me know your 'fear count' in the comments!

Types of Phobias

1) Hydrophobia → Fear of water
2) Melissophobia → Fear of bees
3) Basiphobia → Fear of falling
4) Pediophobia → Fear of dolls
5) Pyrophobia → Fear of fire
6) Algophobia → Fear of pain
7) Stygiophobia → Fear of hell
8 ) Dendrophobia → Fear of trees
9) Ornithophobia → Fear of birds
10) Selachophobia → Fear of sharks
11) Chiroptophobia → Fear of bats
12) Macrophobia → Fear of long waits
13) Erythrophobia → Fear of blushing
14) Myrmecophobia → Fear of ants
15) Gephyrophobia → Fear of bridges
16) Kinemortophobia → Fear of zombies
17) Phasmophobia → Fear of ghosts
18) Herpetophobia → Fear of reptiles
19) Necrophobia → Fear of corpses
20) Thanatophobia → Fear of death or dying
21) Taphophobia → Fear of being buried alive
22) Philophobia → Fear of falling in love or emotional attachment

Source

God has not given me the spirit of fear, but of power, of love and of a sound mind. (2 Timothy 1 vs 7)

I knew a lot of weird phobias at uni...

Ailurophobia is the fear of cats

Anglophobia - England or English

Alektorophobia- Chicken

Androphobia - Men

Ambulophobia- walking

Amaxophobia - moving vehicle

Gerontophobia- fear of old people etc

What of fear of dirty toilets and bathroom?

Mikocake:
What of fear of dirty toilets and bathroom?

Shitophobia.

Na snake me I fear cos I can't stand it

I have 2 phobias only.
Fear of of being in an enclosed space claustrophobia
And fear of heights Acrophobia

Where is the fear of sense?

Many of our leaders lack it

But the fear of love na d koko o

Pussilophobia
The fear of toto

Our daddy manna fell in all
All of the above.

What of fear of touching dry things like tissue papers, catton papers, I always dip my fingers in water or saliva before touching tissue or dry papers, even if I touch it accidentally i will still touch water or saliva thereafter...

Sane Nigerians fears this one below:

ISLAMOPHOBIA

Omo! Na that no 6 and 7 be the main koko

DrMB:
Ever feel like your heart is about to jump out of your chest because of a tiny spider or a long bridge? You aren't just 'scared', there’s actually a name for that. Here are 22 phobias that prove our brains are weirder than we think.
Think you’re fearless? Check this list of 22 phobias and see if you can make it to the end without finding yours.
Be honest: How many of these did you have to Google to make sure they were real? Let me know your 'fear count' in the comments!



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ONE SINGLE FEAR OF EVRY MAN IS POVERTY.


WHAT PHOBIA IS IT CALLED?

Femophobia: Fear woman
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Peace

And you didn't add Tinobia?




The fear of Tinupoo

Mine isn't there.

Tryophobia - fear of holes

Claustrophobia and Fear of heights
Anddd the last one

FEAR OF WOMEN

I only have one phobia, and it’s bathmophia.

Nothing concern average Nigerian with all this.. d only fear most of us get na sapaphobia..

SAPAphobia.. APCphobia thats my phobias

Almost everything I carried
Except 🦇 bat and snakes I no fear

Is there anything like fear of poverty? 🤥🤥

That's the only phobia I have

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A reply:

SpencerForbes:
I just checked now and it’s peniaphobia. I think I share the same fear.

Homophobia - fear of being gay

Albert0011:
I have 2 phobias only.
Fear of of being in an enclosed space claustrophobia
And fear of heights Acrophobia

Is that me in another town??

Every religion person is a stygiophobia

Fear of coming out to vote in Nigerian elections is called what?

Phobias are definitely more than 22. One is Agoraphobia. Fear of being in the public

What about womephobia, fear of women?

Godfullsam:
ONE SINGLE FEAR OF EVRY MAN IS POVERTY.


WHAT PHOBIA IS IT CALLED?

Sapaphobia. Fear or temporary unable to withdraw cash.

Used to have Stygiophobia and Thanatophobia then I sought truth and freed myseld from the grasp of religion, both phobias died.