"The Most Common Form of Madness"
PHOBIAS

(A man with "a type of agoraphobia")
"Primitive man had a fear of the sun and the moon and the stars, and I am the same."
--from Phobia of Outer Space
(Heavy Metal, Oct. 1982)

acrophobia:	fear of heights
agoraphobia:	fear of open spaces
alcoholophobia:	fear of alcoholic beverages
anthophobia:	fear of flowers
anthrophobia:	fear of other people
apiphobia:	fear of bees
arachibutyrophobia:	fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth
automysophobia:	fear of being dirty
ballistophobia:	fear of missiles
batrachophobia:	fear of frogs
belonephobia:	fear of pins
botanophobia:	fear of plants
claustrophobia:	fear of closed or narrow places
clinophobia:	fear of beds
decidophobia:	fear of making decisions
dermatophobia:	fear of skin diseases
dextrophobia:	fear of the right side
emetophobia:	fear of vomiting
eragsiophobia:	fear of work
ereuthophobia:	fear of blushing
erotophobia:	fear of sex
gamophobia:	fear of marriage
gynophobia:	fear of women
helminothophobia:	fear of worms
hematophobia:	fear of blood
homilophobia:	fear of sermons
hydrophobia:	fear of water
hypnophobia:	fear of sleeping
iatrophobia:	fear of doctors
ichthyophobia:	fear of fish / sharks
levophobia:	fear of the left side
meteorophobia:	fear of meteors
microphobia:	fear of germs
necrophobia:	fear of corpses
nucleomitiphobia:	fear of atom bombs
nyctophobia:	fear of the dark
odontophobia:	fear of teeth
optophobia:	fear of opening their eyes
panphobia:	fear of everything
pediophobia:	fear of dolls
phobophobia:	fear of being afraid
proctophobia:	fear of rectal disease
siderodromophobia:	fear of trains
spermatophobia:	fear of sperm loss
stasibasiphobia:	fear of standing and walking
thanatophobia:	fear of death
thaphephobia:	fear of being buried alive
trichophobia:	fear of hair
triskaidekaphobia:	fear of the number thirteen
xenophobia:	fear of strangers

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