What is the phobia called when you have a fear of holes?
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cavuminubilaphobia, since the latin word for cavity is cavum, and dark is nubil
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I have feared swings since I was a little child. I'm not sure if there is a name for a "Fear of swings." I would have nightmares of swings and the potential of injuring another. I am probably the most fearless person and possibly the craziest (I have ate bugs + other unimaginable things). I also love heights and wouldn't mind a snake or spider crawling on my skin. There should be a phobia for swings. I kinda in the process of writing an autobiography of myself for my English class, and I talked about those horrific nightmares. I would also have nightmares of me being enclosed in a cube that would become smaller and smaller. I don't believe I have Claustrophobia. Who knows???
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Wait a minute. Who said people with phobias had an inferior mental state? The only person I know that's said that is you. Some people may have seemingly irrational fears but a lot of them make sense ie; fear of heights, fear of snakes etc. It doesn't mean you're mentally inferior. I'll admit the word 'homophobic' has always confused me a bit too but I very much doubt it was someone who was gay who first came up with the word.\n\nOh, okay. I guess that's fair enough.\n\nI've just found something. I'm not after the best answer, I just thought you'd like to know. The answer to who came up with the word is mentioned here: \nhttp://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Homophobia\nHe's apparently heterosexual.
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paraskevidekatriaphobia\n\nA morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims that when you can pronounce the word you are cured.\n\nOr friggatriskaidekaphobia or  triskaidekaphobia.
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Fear of bridges is a relatively common phobia although most people with it do not know they have something called "gephyrophobia." However, the derivation of the word "gephyrophobia" is perfectly straightforward (if you know Greek); it is derived from the Greek words "gephyra" (bridge) and "phobos" (fear).
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Arachnophobia - fear of spiders.
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Friday the 13th Phobia Rooted in Ancient History
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Testophobia is the Fear of taking tests \n\nhttp://www.phobiafinder.com/i/484/Testophobia.html
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Althaiophobia is the fear of marshmallows.
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This sounds like claustrophobia - a fear of closed spaces, or fear of being in a place you can't escape. There are many places you can get information on this condition. Try doing a Yahoo search on "Claustrophobia" and see what you find. One example is this site:\n\nhttp://www.pe2000.com/pho-claustro.htm\n\nGood luck!
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It is a fear of heights (top of a building, climbing a tree, for some flying, etc).\n\nFear of heights: An abnormal and persistent fear of heights. Sufferers experience severe anxiety even though they realize as a rule that heights pose no real threat to them. \n\n**Fear of heights is termed acrophobia. The word "acrophobia" is derived from the Greek "acron" (height) and "phobos" (fear).
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The American Heritage Dictionary on Yahoo! defines phobia as\n"A persistent, abnormal, and irrational fear of a specific thing or situation that compels one to avoid it, despite the awareness and reassurance that it is not dangerous." It is a form of anxiety disorder.\n\nAn American study by the National Institute of Mental Health (NIMH) found that between 8.7% and 18.1% of Americans suffer from phobias. Broken down by age and gender, the study found that phobias were the most common mental illness among women in all age groups and the second most common illness among men older than 25.\n\nThere are three types of phobias:\n\n* social phobia - fear of other people or social situations;\n\n* specific phobias triggered by a specific object;\n\n* agoraphobia or fear of everything. \n\nI have a fear of heights which developed at an early age.
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i am extremely claustraphobic. fear of confined spaces. its so bad that even hearing about people in spaces make me queesy.. my boyfriend came home from work yesterday telling me about him having to crawl 50ft under a house in a crwl space the was less that 2 feet high and i started to hyperventalate.
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Fear of children: An abnormal and persistent fear of babies and children. Sufferers experience anxiety even though they realize their fear is groundless. Rearing a child or being around active children can both produce anxiety. \n\nFear of children is termed "pedophobia," a word derived from the Greek "pais" (child) and "phobos" (fear). \n\nWhat is the cause of Pedophobia?\nLike all fears and phobias, pedophobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. At some point in your past, there was likely an event linking children and emotional trauma. Whilst the original catalyst may have been a real-life scare of some kind, the condition can also be triggered by myriad, benign events like movies, TV, or perhaps seeing someone else experience trauma. \n\nBut so long as the negative association is powerful enough, the unconscious mind thinks: "Ahh, this whole thing is very dangerous. How do I keep myself from getting in this kind of situation again? I know, I'll attach terrible feelings to children, that way I'll steer clear in future and so be safe." Just like that pedophobia is born. Attaching emotions to situations is one of the primary ways that humans learn. Sometimes we just get the wiring wrong. \n\nThe actual phobia manifests itself in different ways. Some sufferers experience it almost all the time, others just in response to direct stimuli. Everyone has their own unique formula for when and how to feel bad.\n\nIt's your thinking patterns that cause the feelings of fear. You know you don't have pedophobia when you are focussed on other things. To overcome pedophobia it is your thinking that must change. ONLY YOU can CHANGE YOUR THINKING.\n\nSeek support, Paul ;)
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Best fear is what gets you zipping and is called eustress. The fear that turns you into a mental or physical frozen state is distress
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Phobia is to be afraid of something while depression is to be overly sad.
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I don't know what the least common is, but here are some phobias: batrachophobia (amphibians), pogonophobia (beards), teratophobia (deformity), keraunothnetophobia (fall of satelites), ophthamophobia (being stared at), pteronophobia (tickling with feathers), optophobia (opening one's eyes), xenoglossophobia (foreign languages), doraphobia (the skins of animals), scorodophobia (garlic), barophobia (gravity), and atelophobia (imperfection)