Surely you had heard that the most common phobias were the fear of mice, pigeons, needles, injections, bats and butterflies, but these are already in the past, here are the most common phobias of this century.
First we must understand that «Phobia» is the fear or anguish that is generated from specific situations that disturbs our tranquility.
With the increase in technology and the important advance in science, new phobias have been detected among the younger generations, which, according to specialists, are generally related to social interaction.
1. Aedificatorphobia: Fear of constructions.
2.Agmenophobia: Fear that the queue that is chosen will go slower than another that was not chosen.
3. Agateophobia: Phobia to madness.
4. Alliumphobia: Fear of smelling garlic.
5. Allodoxaphobia: Distrust of opinion or fear of exchanging opinions.
6. Ancraophobia: To the wind, air or to fly.
7. Antefamaphobia: Fear of discovering that people speak ill of you just at the moment you enter the room where the conversation is taking place.
8. Anuptaphobia: Fear of being without a partner (more common in women).
9. Atomosophobia: to atomic explosions.
10. Carbophobia: to carbohydrates.
11. Catagelophobia: To be ridiculed.
12. Cenophobia: Fear of empty rooms.
13.Chlorophobia: Fear of the color green.
14. Chorophobia: To dance.
15.Consecotaleophobia: To the chopsticks of Japanese food.
16. Cyberphobia: To the computers.
17. Deipnophobia: To the dining room or dinner party conversations.
18. Editiovultaphobia: Fear of Facebook. Or that your life is lived in front of ‘friends’ that you have never seen or want to meet.
19. Editophobia: The fear of being edited or deleted in a post.
20. Euphobia: To the good news.
21. Elurophobia: To the cats.
22. Ergophobia: Fear of work.
23. Ipovlopsychophobia: To have pictures taken.
24. Klismaphobia: Fear of enemas.
25. Macrophobia: Fear of long waits.
26. Metathesiophobia: To the changes.
27. Nomophobia: To be without a mobile phone.
28. Odynophobia: To pain.
29. Panophobia: fear of everything
30. Politicophobia: Fear of ‘abnormal’ politicians.
Fortunately, phobias can be treated. For this it is necessary to consult with mental health professionals and start a specialized psychological treatment, what is your phobia?