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Is your phobia common? Does that make a difference? When it comes to curing a phobia, the rarity of the phobia is no barrier to a cure, and in fact the techniques are the same whatever the phobia. Read - Weird Phobias - how do you cure a weird phobia? for an explanation.
In the meantime, our first top 10 phobias are the ten most common phobias:
Top Ten most Common Phobias
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- Arachnophobiba - Fear of spiders.
- Social Phobia - Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations.
- Aviophobia (also Aviatophobia) - Fear of flying.
- Agoraphobia - Fear of the outdoors, crowds or uncontrolled social conditions. Fear of leaving a safe place.
- Claustrophobia - Fear of confined spaces.
- Acrophobia (also Altophobia) - Fear of heights.
- Emetophobia - Fear of vomiting.
- Cancerophobia (also Carcinophobia) - Fear of cancer.
- Astraphobia (also Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia) - Fear of thunder and lightning.
- Necrophobia - Fear of death or dead things.
Next in our list of top 10 phobias is a list of the ten most unusual phobias - admitedly this is somewhat subjective list:
Ten most Unusual Phobias:
- Ithyphallophobia - Fear of seeing, thinking about or having an erect penis.
- Ephebophobia - Fear of Youth.
- Coulrophobia - Fear of clowns.
- Ergasiophobia - Fear of work or functioning. Surgeon's fear of operating.
- Gymnophobia - Fear of nudity.
- Cainophobia (also Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia, Neophobia) - Fear of newness, novelty.
- Paraskavedekatriaphobia - Fear of Friday the 13th.
- Panophobia (also Pantophobia) - Fear of everything.
- Taphephobia (also Taphophobia) - Fear of being buried alive or of cemeteries.
- Pteronophobia - Fear of being tickled by feathers.
And the final list in our top 10 phobias lists is from AskMen.com. According to AskMen.com these are their list of weird top 10 phobias. These may be better read in reverse order:
AskMens Weird Phobias
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