Topic : Fears, Phobias and Anxiety Disorders

Wow, over 60 phobias. That's a lot. I myself only have a handful and its hard enough with just those. How do you live with so many phobias? I have a fear of needles, snakes, doctors (lol), and a little bit of social anxiety. When I see your long list of phobias it makes me wonder what life is like with all of that.

Its not hard if you have lived almost a quarter of a lifetime with something like this. Its easy for me to not think about anything when I'm staying home. If I kept up going to school I would have broken. I am homeschooled now, but if I kept going, it would only end up destroying me. In science they were talking about one of the catastrophes, Big Bang Theory, about the dark matter and energy constantly expanding but then will retract then destroy everything. He makes it all look like a joke.. It hurts thinking about things like that, and it put me into an upset mood, I wasn't able to control not crying, luckily for me noone looked, or else it would have only caused more problems.

 

I am sure they have forgotten about me for now, 2 full years there but 1 week is all it takes to remove the memory of someone or something not worth thinking about. Besides they have more to look forward to. I only feel bad about leaving because of the Counselor who was strongly against me going to homeschool but I had to. I just had to. I understand I ran away but I had no choice, it was either fly or die.

1Agyrophobia- Fear of streets or crossing the street.
2Aichmophobia- Fear of needles or pointed objects.
3Acerophobia- Fear of sourness.
4Achluophobia- Fear of darkness.
5Agateophobia- Fear of insanity.
5Agliophobia- Fear of pain.
6Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society.
7Antlophobia- Fear of floods.
8Anuptaphobia- Fear of staying single.
9Apeirophobia- Fear of infinity.
10Astrophobia- Fear of stars or celestial space.
11Autophobia- Fear of being alone or of oneself.
12Aviophobia or Aviatophobia- Fear of flying.
13Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed.
14Catapedaphobia- Fear of jumping from high and low places.
15Chronophobia- Fear of time.
16Chronomentrophobia- Fear of clocks.
17Clinophobia- Fear of going to bed.
18Cnidophobia- Fear of stings.
19Cometophobia- Fear of comets.
20Coimetrophobia- Fear of cemeteries.
21Dentophobia- Fear of dentists.
22Enosiophobia or Enissophobia- Fear of having committed an unpardonable sin or of criticism.
23Gerascophobia- Fear of growing old.
24Gynephobia or Gynophobia- Fear of women.
25Hadephobia- Fear of hell.
26Hagiophobia- Fear of saints or holy things.
27Hamartophobia- Fear of sinning.
28Haphephobia or Haptephobia- Fear of being touched.
29Harpaxophobia- Fear of being robbed.
30Hedonophobia- Fear of feeling pleasure.
31Heliophobia- Fear of the sun.
32Hellenologophobia- Fear of Greek terms or complex scientific terminology.
33Kakorrhaphiophobia- Fear of failure or defeat.
34Katagelophobia- Fear of ridicule.
35Laliophobia or Lalophobia- Fear of speaking.
36Agophobia- Fear of darkness.
37Lyssophobia- Fear of rabies or of becoming mad.
38Maieusiophobia- Fear of childbirth.
39Malaxophobia- Fear of love play. (Sarmassophobia)
40Maniaphobia- Fear of insanity.
41Mastigophobia- Fear of punishment.
42Nephophobia- Fear of clouds.
43Noctiphobia- Fear of the night.
44Nomatophobia- Fear of names.
45Nosocomephobia- Fear of hospitals.
46Nosophobia or Nosemaphobia- Fear of becoming ill.
47Nostophobia- Fear of returning home.
48Ochlophobia- Fear of crowds or mobs.
49Ophthalmophobia- Fear of being stared at.
50Opiophobia- Fear medical doctors experience of prescribing needed pain medications for patients.
51Optophobia- Fear of opening one's eyes.
52Parthenophobia- Fear of virgins or young girls.
53Pnigophobia or Pnigerophobia- Fear of choking of being smothered.
54Polyphobia- Fear of many things.
55Poinephobia- Fear of punishment.
56Ponophobia- Fear of overworking or of pain.
57Scolionophobia- Fear of school.
58Siderophobia- Fear of stars.
59Social Phobia- Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
60Sociophobia- Fear of society or people in general.
61Somniphobia- Fear of sleep.
62Soteriophobia - Fear of dependence on others.
63Spacephobia- Fear of outer space.
64Thanatophobia- Fear of death or dying. 

I have a 10 year old daughter that has panic attacks. She says she is scared of dying. when she has them it seems to last forever. We have been dealing with this again now for a couple of months. She has been taking prozac for a little over 6 months now. The first episode she had was when a little girl she went to school with pretended like she was dying but she eventually got over that and now has started again and the doctor says they can't give her any different medicine. I don't know how to help her. She don't want to go to school, she will cry forever sometimes, says she feels like she can't breathe. Any suggestions?????

I am a 26 yr.old who has a 4 yr.old beautiful little girl who has the stomach flu right now and I have my mother at my home with me because I cannot deal with it.  I don't even know when all of this came about.  It makes me so sad to know that my daughter is sick and I am too scared and panicky to take care of her.  I need some help!!!!!!!

OMG! Someone finally understands me! I have a fear of vomiting too but it seems that no one in my family understands that. Especially my sister, she thinks its just another excuse to make fun of me. But I understand exactly how you feel. Whenever I run into someone I know at church and they all of the sudden decide to tell me that they had the stomache flu the day before I freak out about it. I'm terrified that since I was standing right in front of them, even though they just had it the day before, that I would get it.

I'm a 31yr old stay at home mom. Ever since I was five years old I have had a horrible fear of the end of the world. I'm not afraid of death, just the end of the world. It's getting to the point that I am having an impossible time of living my life and being happy.

 

I have a wonderful husband, two great kids, an overall great life, but this fear is crippling me. I don't know what to do.

I stumbled apon this topic and can relate very well.. I have severe anxiety and panic disorder that actually causes me to blackout, have body tremors, sweats, nausea, loss of hearing (scariest of all) and feeling of dying. I have suffered for about 5 almost 6 years and have been pretty much a prisoner to my home. Since I am unable to work I can not afford to get the medical help I need. This is very frustrating I am really out of ideas on where to turn , I have read many self help books but dont seem to get anywhere with them. I am only 27 and should be at the prime of my life going forward with goals and planning a family with my fiancee of 10 years. This has paralyized our realatiionship and I am afraid to go forward in fear of having nothing to offer him other than him becoming my life long care taker! Anyhow was just wondering if anyone has any advise on how to get some help, I will try anything that I possibly can. I know everyone is proably thinking why dont he help me pay for medical attention? Unfortuneatly we are barely scraping by with one income and he works very hard to give us what we have.

I do know that it is not getting any easier and all I have learned is to get as close to floor as possible when a panic attack is coming on because I have split my head open numerous times when i black out !!! So anyone with some advice I would kindly except it and appreciate it very much!!  I just feel like the walls keep closing in and I dont know how much more of this i can possibly stand!!

Sincerely Lost,

Kara

 

That is exactly how i am too!  Like a month ago, my sister and her son had the stomach flu and I wouldn't allow them around me or my daugher for like a month!!!!!!!!!!  I really don't know how to overcome this and just not be afraid of it.  I need to get over the whole thing because I do have a daughter that will get sick sometimes..............it's just a part of life!  But i am the same way you are................If someone is sick here at work, I automatically think that I am gonna get it.  It sucks!  It's my phobia though.  I hate it!!!!!!!

I'm new here and was reading through the posts and this one touched my heart.  I am 30 years old and my earliest memory of panic attacks dates back to the first grade.  I was scared to leave my safety net (home), I constantly worried my parents were going to die,  I worried that the other kids didn't like me and I worried I wouldn't be able to do a good job on my homework, I worried I would say something wrong, etc.  It was to the point I would get sick to my stomach and I couldn't breath.  I would beg my mom to let me stay home from school. My parents took me to the pediatrician who said she felt I was a perfectionist and I was experiencing anxiety attacks.   I don't know if it was my parent's decision or if it was just the times, but I was not put on medication nor was I put into therapy.  I was fortunate that my dad understood as he also suffers from Generalized Anixiety Disorder and coached me from an early age how to deal with the attacks through redirecting my thoughts, deep breathing, listening to tapes of nature's sounds, etc.  He explained the fight or flight instinct and reminded me that the attacks were not going to hurt me and I can make them go away using my coping skills.  I continue to use these learned skills to this day.  But, I have a perfectionist personality and have a tendency to try to control everything--even things that are out of my control.  I had doctors try me on different meds through the years but for whatever reason, I never gave any of them a chance.  Having said that, I  did get to the point this past year where I needed to accept help after going through some hard times.  I've found that a low dose of Xanax works well for me.  I only take it when I'm having trouble working through the attacks.  I was lucky that my father educated me about anxiety, but I wish he would have put me in therapy when I was young.  I am now looking into therapy for myself with the hopes that I can work on some of my personality traits that contribute to my anxiety and maybe learn some different ways to cope with stress.   My advise is to educate yourself as much as you can about anxiety, be supportive and loving, and most importantly get her into therapy.  Medicine can be helpful for those of us with GAD, but we really need to understand the anxiety and accept it before we can really begin to fight it.