A list of unusual phobias...

Okay, I said I'd do it, and here it is. A list of some of the weirdest phobias around:

Pogonophobia - Fear of beards
Taphephobia - Fear of being buried alive
Scopophobia - Fear of being seen
Ailurophobia - Fear of cats
Ochlophobia, demophobia - Fear of crowds
Staurophobia - Fear of crucifixes (might be fear of being crucified as well)
Teleophobia - Fear of definite plans
Sitophobia - Fear of eating
Pantophobia - Fear of everything
Kopophobia - Fear of exhaustion
Kakorrhaphiophobia - Fear of failure
Gamophobia - Fear of marriage
Chrematophobia - Fear of money
Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity
Metrophobia - Fear of poetry
Blennophobia - Fear of slime
Linonophobia - Fear of string
Pnigerophobia - Fear of suffocation
Gynephobia - Fear of women
Ergasiophobia, Ponophobia - Fear of work (always a nice one when you're feeling lazy :grin.
Scotophobia - Fear of the dark

 

I have all of them! And is there a fear of phobias?

 

Probably. I don't know what it is though :smile:.

 

Dont you know there is also a fear of sun? There was 1 German minister's wife committed suicide cause she cant go out and have to stay at home and she cant take it anymore.(Hope I'm correct)

 

I think I may have stumbled across some kind of freakish world record for the number of simulataneous incidences of a specific phobia in the same locale.

You see, EVERYONE I work with (including my company, my clients and the graphic design agencies we partner with) appears to suffer from teleophobia :grin:

 

I'd love to have Kakorrhaphiophobia. hat would keep me working.
I have no phobias. hell, I don't even get sea sick.

 

I don't know anyone who gets sea sick. Do you even live near the sea (I know Poland is next to the sea/ocean/whatever is up there). Is there much opportunity to go swimming in the ocean where you live?

 

not really, did my share of swimming since, I lived in Syria and I did alot of Travelling, Dead sea Red Sea etc..

 

I've been to the Dead Sea - the Jordan (or Lebanon) side, can't remember which, we visited both countries at roughly the same time.

That place is cool - though how you actually managed to swim in the Dead Sea is beyond me...all I could do was float. Wasn't brave (or stupid) enough to try and open my eyes under water. You should have seen the welts I gave myself scratching though...

 

if even a drop got into your eye, it's hell 'n thunder. epening them underwater would be suicide. I was there from Jordans side.

 

Those little "salt slicks" are really cool as well I think :smile:. The fact that there's so much salt that it looks like a mini oil slick is freaky. I had a good time there though.

 

i leave about 20 minutes from the Dead sea(by car)
but i leave on the Israelian side!
Jinxed you said you leaved in Syria...
when?

 

I lived there for 5 years. And that was 6 years ago.

 

and where did you live before you moved there?
and why the hell will someone want move to there?!
i mean in the middle of a war?(kind of a war)

 

by the way what are the USUAL phobias?

 

Claustrophobia, Agoraphobia, Hydrophobia etc etc etc The ones you hear about in general conversation.

 

i've never heard about the last two...
what are those?
(fear of water i think.. and (?))

 

Agoraphobia - Fear of open spaces
Hydrophobia - Fear of water

 

hey cool my gues was correct!

 

Well, no offense, but it shouldn't have been that hard. I mean, not only are both backgrounds you can take in the game, but I don't think it's much of a challenge to deduce the meaning of hyrdophobia...