10 Unrealistic And Exceptional Phobias

By Andy D Gallagher

People have fears of many kinds like that of height, death, water, clouds, fight etc., but this fear, when becomes unreasonable and excessive, transforms in to a phobia. It depends upon your nerves as to when you lose self-control and become unable to compose yourself. This fear of a certain thing beyond sanity is called Phobia.

Phobia is an intense, irrational and constant fear of certain things, situations, activities or even people. This is a mental disorder, which, if not overcome, disturbs the personal, social and economic life of an individual; it might be rooted to a traumatic situation, which one cannot overcome.

It is logical enough to have fear for things, which are realistic, but there are certain strange phobias of everyday things that people develop. These are mostly harmless, and become unstoppable. A list of top ten strange and non-realistic phobias is as follows:

Ablutophobia

People, especially women and children, have this constant habit of bathing, washing, and cleaning, which becomes a phobia. This habit becomes continuous, because they are not sensitively established.

Chorophobia

Dancing is an expression of joy and cheerfulness; can anyone be fearful of dancing? Yes, people have this phobia too!

Koumpounophobia

Buttons are things, which we would think no one would have fear of, but some people are afraid of them, and other things such as coins, discs, which are similar to buttons.

Arachibutyrophobia

Who would be afraid of peanut butter attached to the top of their mouth? Yes, many people prefer swallowing peanut butter rather than chewing it.

Phobophobia

A psychological disorder of having a phobia for developing some phobia is also quite common. It is quite fascinating and hilarious.

Estiophobia

A very strange phobia is estiophobia; fear of clothes. The sufferers are not afraid of the all kind of clothes but of a certain type and material. Moreover, it is found in people who are fat and middle aged; they think that clothes make them look shabbier.

Caligynephobia

Can you imagine anyone being scared of the beauty? Yes, there are many people who fear beautiful women, this is called caligynephobia. This can be found in adolescent children and men who might not have straight orientation.

Scopophobia

Scopophobia is the fear of being looked at; it is a real weird one as everyone looks at someone at some point in time. Hence, it might lead to social cut-off of the sufferer.

Euphobia

Strangely, there are people who have a fear for listening to good news because not only they cannot hear it, but also they are scared that some bad news might follow it.

Allodoxaphobia

Hearing opinions from other people about their own personality, job, home, features, etc. is another phobia that people might have since they are afraid about someone passing comments about them. - 31985

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