Presented by: Juluat, Arriane Joy

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Presented by Juluat, Arriane Joy I- OPSDIA
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At the end of the Presentation, you will
understand and learn about
Definition of Phobia Types of Phobia Symptoms Of
Phobia Common Phobias Overcoming Phobias My Top
Ten Phobias
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What Is Phobia?
Psychiatrists define a phobia as a type of
anxiety disorder that consists of a morbid and
irrational fear of a specific object or situation
associated with severe anxiety, and recognized by
the subject to be unreasonable or unwarranted. It
is more than fear, however, for the feared object
or situation must be avoided, or can be endured
only with marked distress, because of the anxiety
response or panic attack that it almost
invariably provokes. This condition is also known
as angst
Phobias are IRRATIONAL, meaning that they
interfere with one's everyday life or daily
routine. For example, if your fear of high places
prevents you from crossing necessary bridges to
get to work, that fear is irrational. If your
fears keep you from enjoying life or even
preoccupy your thinking so that you are unable to
work, or sleep, or do the things you wish to do,
then it becomes irrational.  
Other words that are synonyms of the word phobia
include fear, hatred, dread, anxiety, aversion,
panic, fright, terror, torment, scare, terrify,
angst, disgust, abhorrence, antipathy, repulsion,
and revulsion.
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Types Of Phobias
1. Specific phobias (also known as simple phobia
or isolated phobia).
2. Social phobias (social anxiety disorders
although when they occur in children, they are
known as avoidant disorders).
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Specific Phobias
The essential feature of a specific phobia is a
persistent, irrational fear of, and compelling
desire to avoid, specific objects or situations.
This kind of phobia is characterized by a
relatively specific fear of an object or
situation. The range of stimuli that may elicit a
fearful response is narrower than in other phobic
disorders and such phobias are sometimes also
referred to as simple phobias.  
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Subtypes

• animal type - cued by animals or insects
• natural environment type - cued by objects in the
  environment, such as storms, heights, or water
• blood-injection-injury type - cued by witnessing
  some invasive medical procedure
• situational type - cued by a specific situation,
  such as public transportation, tunnels, bridges,
  elevators, flying, driving, or enclosed spaces
• other type - cued by other stimuli than the
  above, such as of choking, vomiting, or
  contracting an illness
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Social Phobia
Individuals who have social phobias have
excessive anxieties in social situations such
as, parties, meetings, interviews, restaurants,
making complaints, writing in public, eating in
restaurants, and interacting with the opposite
sex, strangers, and aggressive individuals. They
often fear situations in which they believe they
are being observed and evaluated, such as eating,
drinking, speaking in public, driving, etc.
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Social Phobias con't
Unlike specific or simple phobias, which tend to
diminish as the individual grows into puberty and
young adulthood, social phobias persist as one
gets older. Many such individuals have traits
that interfere with social and marital
adjustment. Some have ongoing problems with
generalized anxiety, dependence, authority, and
depression.  
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Agoraphobia
As defined by the American Psychiatric
Association, Agoraphobia is the fear of being
alone in any place or situation from which it
would be difficult or help unattainable should
the need arise. Most people will develop this
disorder after experiencing an intense panic
attack in a situation such as being in a room
full of people or on a busy street. These attacks
are random and the person fears another. The
person eventually becomes afraid to leave their
own home. This is the most debilitating of the
phobias.
 
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General Symptoms of Phobia
Phobias are emotional but cause the body to
exhibit physical symptoms. Feelings of panic and
dread or terror Recognition that the fear is
abnormal Reactions that are involuntary and out
of control Rapid heartbeat, shortness of breath,
trembling, sweating, intense anxiety, and an
Overwhelming desire to leave the situation
Extreme measures taken to avoid the feared
object or situation Impaired ability to function
at normal tasks due to fear Taking usual measure
to avoid the cause of your fear
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Phobia List
Anthrophobia or Anthophobia- Fear of
flowers.Anthropophobia- Fear of people or
society.Antlophobia- Fear of floods.Anuptaphobia
- Fear of staying single.Apeirophobia- Fear of
infinity.Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut
butter sticking to the roof of the
mouth.Arachnephobia or Arachnophobia- Fear of
spiders.Astraphobia or Astrapophobia- Fear of
thunder and lightning.(Ceraunophobia,
Keraunophobia)Atelophobia- Fear of
imperfection.Atychiphobia- Fear of
failure.Aulophobia- Fear of flutes.Automysophobi
a- Fear of being dirty.Autophobia- Fear of being
alone or of oneself.Aviophobia or Aviatophobia-
Fear of flying.
Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or
bathing.Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.Acoustico
phobia- Fear of noise.Acrophobia- Fear of
heights.Aeroacrophobia- Fear of open high
places.Agliophobia- Fear of pain.Agyrophobia-
Fear of streets or crossing the
street.Alektorophobia- Fear of
chickens.Altophobia- Fear of heights.Amaxophobia
- Fear of riding in a car.Androphobia- Fear of
men.
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Bacillophobia- Fear of microbes.Bacteriophobia-
Fear of bacteria.Ballistophobia- Fear of
missiles or bullets.Bolshephobia- Fear of
Bolsheviks.Barophobia- Fear of
gravity.Basophobia or Basiphobia- Inability to
stand. Fear of walking or falling.Bathmophobia-
Fear of stairs or steep slopes.Bathophobia- Fear
of depth.Batophobia- Fear of heights or being
close to high buildings.Batrachophobia- Fear of
amphibians, such as frogs, newts, salamanders,
etc.Belonephobia- Fear of pins and needles.
(Aichmophobia)Bibliophobia- Fear of
books.Blennophobia- Fear of slime.Bogyphobia-
Fear of bogeys or the bogeyman.Botanophobia-
Fear of plants.Bromidrosiphobia or
Bromidrophobia- Fear of body smells.Brontophobia-
Fear of thunder and lightning.Bufonophobia-
Fear of toads.
Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness.Caligynephobia-
Fear of beautiful women.Catagelophobia- Fear of
being ridiculed.Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping
from high and low places.Catoptrophobia- Fear of
mirrors.Chirophobia- Fear of hands.Chrometophobi
a or Chrematophobia- Fear of money.Cibophobia-
Fear of food.(Sitophobia, Sitiophobia)Claustropho
bia- Fear of confined spaces.Cleithrophobia or
Cleisiophobia- Fear of being locked in an
enclosed place.Cleptophobia- Fear of
stealing.Clinophobia- Fear of going to
bed.Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.Cymophobi
a or Kymophobia- Fear of waves or wave like
motions.
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Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions.Defecaloes
iophobia- Fear of painful bowels
movements.Deipnophobia- Fear of dining or dinner
conversations.Dementophobia- Fear of
insanity.Demonophobia or Daemonophobia- Fear of
demons.Demophobia- Fear of crowds.
(Agoraphobia)Dendrophobia- Fear of
trees.Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.Dermatophobi
a- Fear of skin lesions.Dermatosiophobia or
Dermatophobia or Dermatopathophobia- Fear of skin
disease.Dextrophobia- Fear of objects at the
right side of the body.Diabetophobia- Fear of
diabetes.Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to
school.Dikephobia- Fear of justice.Doraphobia-
Fear of fur or skins of animals.Doxophobia- Fear
of expressing opinions or of receiving
praise.Dromophobia- Fear of crossing
streets.Dutchphobia- Fear of the
Dutch.Dysmorphophobia- Fear of
deformity.Dystychiphobia- Fear of accidents.
Ecclesiophobia- Fear of church.Ecophobia- Fear
of home.surroundings.(Domatophobia,
Oikophobia)Eisoptrophobia- Fear of mirrors or of
seeing oneself in a mirror.Electrophobia- Fear
of electricity.Elurophobia- Fear of cats.
(Ailurophobia)Emetophobia- Fear of
vomiting.Enochlophobia- Fear of
crowds.Entomophobia- Fear of insects.Epistaxioph
obia- Fear of nosebleeds.Equinophobia- Fear of
horses.Eremophobia- Fear of being oneself or of
lonliness.Ereuthrophobia- Fear of
blushing.Ergasiophobia- 1) Fear of work or
functioning. 2) Surgeon's fear of
operating.Ergophobia- Fear of work.Euphobia-
Fear of hearing good news.Eurotophobia- Fear of
female genitalia.Erythrophobia or Erytophobia or
Ereuthophobia- 1) Fear of redlights. 2) Blushing.
3) Red.
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Febriphobia or Fibriphobia or Fibriophobia- Fear
of fever.Felinophobia- Fear of cats.
(Ailurophobia, Elurophobia, Galeophobia,
Gatophobia)Francophobia- Fear of France or
French culture. (Gallophobia, Galiophobia)Frigoph
obia- Fear of cold or cold things.(Cheimaphobia,
Cheimatophobia, Psychrophobia)
Galeophobia or Gatophobia- Fear of
cats.Gallophobia or Galiophobia- Fear France or
French culture. (Francophobia) Gamophobia- Fear
of marriage.Geliophobia- Fear of
laughter.Geniophobia- Fear of chins.Genophobia-
Fear of sex.Genuphobia- Fear of
knees.Gephyrophobia or Gephydrophobia or
Gephysrophobia- Fear of crossing
bridges.Germanophobia- Fear of Germany or German
culture.Gerascophobia- Fear of growing
old.Gerontophobia- Fear of old people or of
growing old.Geumaphobia or Geumophobia- Fear of
taste.Glossophobia- Fear of speaking in public
or of trying to speak.Gnosiophobia- Fear of
knowledge.Graphophobia- Fear of writing or
handwriting.Gymnophobia- Fear of
nudity.Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
Hadephobia- Fear of hell.Hagiophobia- Fear of
saints or holy things.Hemophobia or Hemaphobia
or Hematophobia- Fear of blood.Heterophobia-
Fear of the opposite sex. (Sexophobia)
Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia- Fear of
long words.Hodophobia- Fear of road
travel.Hominophobia- Fear of men.Hylophobia-
Fear of forests.Hypengyophobia or Hypegiaphobia-
Fear of responsibility.Hypnophobia- Fear of
sleep or of being hypnotized.Hypsiphobia- Fear
of height.
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Iatrophobia- Fear of going to the doctor or of
doctors.Ichthyophobia- Fear of fish.Ideophobia-
Fear of ideas.Illyngophobia- Fear of vertigo or
feeling dizzy when looking down.Iophobia- Fear
of poison.Insectophobia - Fear of
insects.Isolophobia- Fear of solitude, being
alone.Isopterophobia- Fear of termites, insects
that eat wood.
Kainolophobia or Kainophobia- Fear of anything
new, novelty.Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure
or defeat.Katagelophobia- Fear of
ridicule.Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting
down.Kenophobia- Fear of voids or empty
spaces.Keraunophobia or Ceraunophobia- Fear of
thunder and lightning.(Astraphobia,
Astrapophobia)Kinetophobia or Kinesophobia- Fear
of movement or motion.Kleptophobia- Fear of
stealing.Koinoniphobia- Fear of
rooms.Kopophobia- Fear of fatigue.Koniophobia-
Fear of dust. (Amathophobia)Kosmikophobia- Fear
of cosmic phenomenon.Kymophobia- Fear of waves.
(Cymophobia)Kynophobia- Fear of
rabies.Kyphophobia- Fear of stooping.
Japanophobia- Fear of Japanese.Judeophobia- Fear
of Jews.
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Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.Melanophobia-
Fear of the color black.Microphobia- Fear of
small things.Misophobia or Mysophobia- Fear of
being contaminated with dirt or
germs.Mnemophobia- Fear of memories.Molysmophobi
a or Molysomophobia- Fear of dirt or
contamination.Monophobia- Fear of solitude or
being alone.Monopathophobia- Fear of definite
disease.Motorphobia- Fear of automobiles.Motteph
obia- Fear of moths.Musophobia or Muriphobia-
Fear of mice.Mycophobia- Fear or aversion to
mushrooms.Myctophobia- Fear of
darkness.Myrmecophobia- Fear of
ants.Mythophobia- Fear of myths or stories or
false statements.Myxophobia- Fear of slime.
(Blennophobia)
Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables.Laliophobia or
Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.Leprophobia or
Lepraphobia- Fear of leprosy.Leukophobia- Fear
of the color white.Levophobia- Fear of things to
the left side of the body.Ligyrophobia- Fear of
loud noises.Lilapsophobia- Fear of tornadoes and
hurricanes.Limnophobia- Fear of
lakes.Linonophobia- Fear of string.Liticaphobia-
Fear of lawsuits.Lockiophobia- Fear of
childbirth.Logizomechanophobia- Fear of
computers.Logophobia- Fear of words.Luiphobia-
Fear of lues, syphillis.Lutraphobia- Fear of
otters.Lygophobia- Fear of darkness.Lyssophobia-
Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
Necrophobia- Fear of death or dead
things.Neophobia- Fear of anything
new.Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.Nosocomephobi
a- Fear of hospitals.Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia-
Fear of becoming ill.Nostophobia- Fear of
returning home.Nyctohylophobia- Fear of dark
wooded areas or of forests at nightNyctophobia-
Fear of the dark or of night.
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Obesophobia- Fear of gaining weight.(Pocrescophobi
a)Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or
mobs.Ophidiophobia- Fear of snakes.
(Snakephobia)Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being
stared at.Ouranophobia or Uranophobia- Fear of
heaven.
Rhabdophobia- Fear of being severely punished or
beaten by a rod, or of being severely criticized.
Also fear of magic.(wand)Rhypophobia- Fear of
defecation.Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting
wrinkles.Rupophobia- Fear of dirt.Russophobia-
Fear of Russians.
Sciophobia Sciaphobia- Fear of shadows.Scotophobi
a- Fear of darkness. (Achluophobia)Scriptophobia-
Fear of writing in public.Selachophobia- Fear
of sharks.Siderodromophobia- Fear of trains,
railroads or train travel.Sinistrophobia- Fear
of things to the left or left-handed.Snakephobia-
Fear of snakes. (Ophidiophobia)Social Phobia-
Fear of being evaluated negatively in social
situations.Sociophobia- Fear of society or
people in general.Somniphobia- Fear of
sleep.Stygiophobia or Stigiophobia- Fear of
hell.Suriphobia- Fear of mice.
Panophobia or Pantophobia- Fear of
everything.Papaphobia- Fear of the
Pope.Paraskavedekatriaphobia- Fear of Friday the
13th.Pediculophobia- Fear of lice.Pediophobia-
Fear of dolls.Pedophobia- Fear of
children.Peladophobia- Fear of bald
people.Pharmacophobia- Fear of taking
medicine.Phasmophobia- Fear of
ghosts.Philophobia- Fear of falling in love or
being in love.Phobophobia- Fear of
phobias.Pneumatiphobia- Fear of
spirits.Pteromerhanophobia- Fear of
flying.Pyrophobia- Fear of fire.
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Tachophobia- Fear of speed.Taphephobia
Taphophobia- Fear of being buried alive or of
cemeteries.Thalassophobia- Fear of the
sea.Thanatophobia or Thantophobia- Fear of death
or dying.Tonitrophobia- Fear of
thunder.Trypanophobia- Fear of injections.
Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.Wiccaphobia
Fear of witches and witchcraft.
Xanthophobia- Fear of the color yellow or the
word yellow.Xenoglossophobia- Fear of foreign
languages.Xenophobia- Fear of strangers or
foreigners.Xerophobia- Fear of
dryness.Xylophobia- 1) Fear of wooden objects.
2) Forests.Xyrophobia-Fear of razors.
Uranophobia or Ouranophobia- Fear of
heaven.Urophobia- Fear of urine or urinating.
Vaccinophobia- Fear of vaccination.Venustraphobia
- Fear of beautiful women.Verbophobia- Fear of
words.Verminophobia- Fear of germs.Vestiphobia-
Fear of clothing.
Zelophobia- Fear of jealousy.Zeusophobia- Fear
of God.Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole
rat.Zoophobia- Fear of animals.
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Overcoming Phobias
According to the American Psychiatric
Association, phobias are treatable. Treatment can
be through medication, behavior modification, or
cognitive-behavioral therapy. In behavior
modification, which is effective with those who
experience object or situational phobias such as
fear of flying (pterygophobia), a trained
therapist assists the person to confront his
fears and to control his physical reaction. This
may done through a form of deep breathing or
exposure therapy in which the person is gradually
exposed to his fear and shown coping skills.
Medications can be added in the treatment of
panic attacks associated with agoraphobia or
social phobia. Paxil, an antidepressant, has been
approved by the Food and Drug Administration as a
treatment for social phobia. Beta Blockers work
by blocking the stimulating effect of epinephrine
(adrenaline) which increases heart rate and
elevates blood pressure. A sedative in a low dose
can be prescribed for a short period.
 
Most people have some fear or aversion to some
object or situation in life. It is when this fear
becomes so intense that it causes not only an
emotional reaction, but a physical one as well,
that it becomes a phobia. When life has become
miserable due to fear, when leaving the house
becomes impossible, when employment becomes
difficult, seek treatment. There is hope.
Remember an old German proverb Fear makes the
wolf bigger than he is.
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My Top 5 Phobias
I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear
is the little-death that brings total
obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit
it to pass over me and through me. And when it
has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see
its path. Where the fear has gone there will be
nothing. Only I will remain.
You gain strength, courage and confidence by
every experience in which you really stop to look
fear in the face. You are able to say to
yourself, 'I have lived through this horror. I
can take the next thing that comes along.' You
must do the thing you think you cannot do.
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Entomophobia- Fear of insects.
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Hypsiphobia- Fear of height.
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Eremophobia- Fear of loneliness
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Necrophobia- Fear of death
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Zeusophobia- Fear of God
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