Types+of+Phobias


 * Types of Phobias **


 * __ Scientific Names __**

There are many types of phobias. They range from fears of pickles to the fear of pain. Depending on the type of phobia you have, the severeness could be very bad or not that bad at all. So the type of phobia a person gets diagnosed with is a big affect in what they need to do to make things better. Here are 10 different scientific names of phobias, picked at random. 1) Ablutophobia-fear of washing or bathing 2) Agliophobia-fear of pain 3) Cardiophobia-fear of the heart 4) Carnophobia-fear of meat 5) Zoophobia-Fear of animals 6) Nudophobia-fear of nudity 7) Trichophobia-fear of hair  8) Verbophobia-Fear of words 9) Zelophobia-Fear of jealousy 10) Altophobia-fear of heights

Over to the right is a photo of the nation's top ten phobias. You've probably heard of some of these just because there the most common types of phobas.

**__3 Main Types of Phobias__** Withen all the of the thousands of different phobias, there are three main phobias that researches have narrowed it down to. The reason they did this is so that you can take a phobia that's not very known and put it into one of those three main phobias, so you kind o know where it came from. These are the three main phobias with there meanings summarized. 1. **__Agoraphobia-__**The fear of public places. An example of a phobia that could be in this category is the fear of shopping malls because a shopping mall is a public place 2. __**Social Phobia-**__ Beyond being shy. An example of this could be the fear of other people because if your scared of others your obviously shy.

The first paragraph in the picture below is just the meaning of claustrophobia (if you couldn't see it) And that information is on 3. below the picture. 3. **__Claustrophobia__**Needing a way out. An example of this one could be the fear of being in a water slide because when your in one your in a very enclosed small space. (The picture is one that I drew for my example of synthesis. It's a picture of a girl that is claustrophobic and its showing how she's feeling in an open area, and how she feels in an enclosed space.)

__** Top 10 Phobias which may Affect your Life **__ The top 10 phobias that can affect your life are...

1. Acrophobia

2. Aerophobia

3. Glossophobia

4. Lygophobia

5. Arachnophobia

6. Ophidiophobia

7. Rejection

8. Claustrophobia

9. kakohaphrophobia

10. Agoraphobia

The meanings of these are located on the url link below. http://articles.submityourarticle.com/Dave-Cleary-7374/common-phobias-101183.php

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