Top 10 Common Specific Phobias

1. Acrophobia - Fear of Heights

   I know many people who have this fear...Almost everyone says that!...Dunno why..I don't have fear at all ( Yes I'm saying the truth of course )

   But that doesn't mean that I can jump off a roof or something like that haha

   Yep, I hate heights. If I have to climb up something you could easily fall from, I wont do it.

2. Claustrophobia - Fear of Enclosed Spaces

   I thought it was a fear of small spaces.. I might have this then.

3. Arachnophobia - Fear of Spiders

4. Nyctophobia - Fear of the Dark

   Yeah that's pretty common ( esp for children )

5. Ophidiophobia - Fear of Snakes

6. Trypanophobia - Fear of Injection or Medical Needles

   I hugely prefer them to pills. I have a fear of pills.

7. Astraphobia - Fear of Thunder and Lightning

8. Nosophobia - Fear of Having a Disease

9. Mysophobia AKA Germophobia - Fear of Germs

   It must be extremely horrible for the one who has it, because everyone knows that germs are everywhere ( For e.g There are more germs on your kitchen slab than in toilet..)

10. Herpetophobia - Fear of Reptiles

The Newcomers
11. ?

    Scolopendrphobia - Fear of Centipedes

12. ?

    Scoleciphobia - Fear of Worms

The Contenders

13. Coulrophobia - Fear of Clowns

    I doubt I will understand Coulrophobia. I know in history they looked weird like a horror movie clown. For example the Pantomime clown in Victorian Britain popular even if they looked like a creeps.

14. Triskaidekaphobia - Fear of the Number 13

    Wait.. This is common? HOW, JUST HOW?

15. Hemophobia - Fear of Blood

16. Ailurophobia - Fear of Cats

17. Trypophobia - Fear of Holes

    

18. Thalassophobia - Fear of the Ocean or Sea

    Is this more likely to be the fear of water?

    Because you need to wash your hands, get a bath/shower, brush your teeth.

    Drink water.

19. Cynophobia - Fear of Dogs

20. Emetophobia - Fear of Vomiting

    An intense, and irrational anxiety/fear of vomit, which is commonly correlated or misdiagnosed soley as an eating disorder.

21. Phonophobia - Fear of Noises

22. Icphiophobia - Fear of Fish