There are several types of social phobia. Among them there are:
- anthropophobia – fear of people in general
- anuptaphobia – fear of loneliness, celibacy
- atelophobia – fear of imperfection
- atihiphobia – fear to fail
- autophobia – fear to loose a close person
- bromhydrophobia – fear that someone may notice bad smell and sweat of one’s body
- cacophobia – fear of ugliness
- coitophobia – fear of sex
- colpophobia – fear of woman’s genitals
- contrectophobia – fear of sexual abuse
- deipnophobia – fear of conversation at meals
- demophobia – fear of crowd
- dismorphophobia – fear of ugliness of one’s body
- dorophobia – fear to receive and give presents
- gerontophobia – fear of old people and becoming old
- glossophobia – fear to perform in public
- gymnophobia – fear of nudity
- gynecophobia – fear of women
- hamartophobia – feat to do a bad deed
- hamophobia – fear of marriage
- haptophobia – fear of touch
- harpaxophobia – fear of robbers
- hedonophobia – fear of pleasure and joy
- heleophobia – fear of laughter
- heterophobia – fear of opposite sex
- hobophobia – fear of beggar
- homicidophobia – fear to kill a human
- hominophobia – fear of men
- homophobia – fear of homosexuals
- intimophobia – fear of the first copulation
- itiphallophobia – fear of penis
- lalophobia – fear to speak
- logophobia – fear to speak wrong words
- monophobia – fear of loneliness
- partenophobia – fear of virgins
- pedophobia – fear of children
- penteraphobia – fear of the mother-in-law
- philemaphobia – fear to kiss with somebody
- philophobia – fear to fall in love with somebody
- phonophobia – fear to speak on the phone
- scopophobia – fear to appear funny, to draw attention
- sociophobia – fear of society in general
- soteriophobia – fear to depend on others
- syngenesophobia – fear of relatives
- telephonophobia – fear of telephone
- venstraphobia – fear of beautiful women
- verbophobia – fear of words
- virginitiphobia – fear to be raped
- xenophobia – fear of foreigner and strangers
- zelophobia – fear of jealousy
1 comment:
Hi Martina, I'm glad I found your blog, very interesting medical perspective. I will be reading it.
I will add to your list: Fear to beeing rejected by others.
If you want to check my blog about social anxiety you can go to:
http://socialanxietyblog.blogspot.com , it would be great to hear your thoughts on it, they are my personal experiences and thoughts about social anxiety.
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