Things to be afraid of!

Marc Tinkler
A few of the phobias listed in the Visual Thesaurus.
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  1. acrophobia
    a morbid fear of great heights
  2. algophobia
    a morbid fear of pain
  3. aquaphobia
    a morbid fear of drowning
  4. astraphobia
    a morbid fear of thunder and lightning
  5. automysophobia
    a morbid fear of being dirty
  6. claustrophobia
    a morbid fear of being closed in a confined space
  7. cryophobia
    a morbid fear of freezing
  8. cyberphobia
    irrational fear of computers or technology
  9. hydrophobia
    a morbid fear of water
  10. hypnophobia
    a morbid fear of falling asleep
  11. nyctophobia
    a morbid fear of night or darkness
  12. phobophobia
    a morbid fear of developing a phobia
  13. phonophobia
    a morbid fear of sounds including your own voice
  14. photophobia
    pain in the eye resulting from exposure to bright light
  15. pyrophobia
    a morbid fear of fire
  16. taphephobia
    a morbid fear of being buried alive
  17. thanatophobia
    a morbid fear of death
  18. triskaidekaphobia
    a morbid fear of the number 13
  19. zoophobia
    a morbid fear of animals
Created on Sun Dec 16 15:07:01 EST 2007 (updated Thu Apr 24 22:25:17 EDT 2008)

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