1Mitch Hedberg
American comedian Mitch Hedberg suffers from Glossophobia a.k.a fear of public speaking. Sometimes it led to him performing entire shows on stage with his eyes shut.
2Tokophobia
Tokophobia is a pathological fear of pregnancy and it can lead to avoidance of childbirth. It can be further classified as primary or secondary. Primary Tokophobia is the fear and deep-seated dread of childbirth in women who have never experienced birth. Secondary Tokophobia is caused by a traumatic birth experience.
3Deipnophobia
Deipnophobia is the fear of dining or dinner conversations and is a branch of sociophobia, which is intense, excessive, and irrational fear in social situations. It is usually triggered by a past traumatic experience.
4Agoraphobia
Charles Darwin suffered from agoraphobia (panic disorder). He suffered constant nausea, trembling, and crying; rendering him virtually bedridden from the age of 30 until his death. His disorder was so severe he even avoided conversations with his own children.
5Equinophobia
Kansas City Chiefs Safety, Eric Berry suffers from equinophobia, a fear of horses. His condition is frequently brought on by the team's mascot, Warpaint.
6Coulrophobia
Coulrophobia is the intense fear of clowns. Some people find any concealment of another person's true face unsettling because it masks a source of communication about their emotional state and identity.
7Number 666
The fear of the number 666 is called Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia and in 1989, Nancy and Ronald Reagan, when moving to their home in the Bel-Air section of Los Angeles after the 1988 election, had its address—666 St. Cloud Road—changed to 668 St. Cloud Road.
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8Trypophobia
Trypophobia is an aversion or fear of irregular patterns or clusters of small holes or bumps, similar to those in lotus seedheads and damaged skin tissue.
9Tetraphobia
Countries like China, Japan, Korea, and Taiwan have Tetraphobia, the fear of the number 4. Chinese people take care not to use the number 4 during important holidays, or if someone in the family is sick. Numbers such as 14, 24, and so on, are not used because they also have the number 4.
10Samhainophobia
Samhainophobia is the medical term for the irrational fear of Halloween. The root word is expressive of the ancient Celts who held a ceremony called Samhain in order to honor the harvest cycle.
