11Amaxophobia
Amaxophobia is an abnormal or persistent fear of being in or riding in, a vehicle. Amaxophobic sufferers riding in a vehicle will typically fear the accident and its consequences, especially injury or death.
12Eurotophobia
Eurotophobia is the aversion or fear of female genitalia. It can affect both men and women. In some people, it’s a spin-off of aversion to perceived by-products of the female genitalia, such as discharge or mucus. It develops more frequently in people who were molested by an adult female.
13Venustraphobia
Venustraphobia is the fear of beautiful women. It is believed that past experience with women is one of the major causes of this. Low self-esteem and poor social performance with ladies may also cause this.
14Koro
Koro syndrome is a psychiatric disorder characterized by anxiety and a deep fear of the shrinking of the penis and/or retraction of the genitals into the abdomen until they disappear. The sufferers believe that when the genitals do disappear they will die. It is triggered by rumors of genital disappearance supposedly caused in China by female fox spirits, in Singapore and Thailand by mass poisoning, and in Africa by sorcery, usually in the context of socio-economic or political tension.
15Claustrophobia
People with claustrophobia and other panic disorders have a smaller amygdala, the part of the brain that processes fear.
16Phobophobia
The phobia of having a phobia is called phobophobia. It also increases the effects of other phobias the person has because of the phobia being triggered when they engage in a phobia.
17Anthropophobia
Anthropophobia is an extreme, pathological form of shyness and timidity. Being a form of social phobia, it may manifest as fears of blushing or meeting others' gaze, awkwardness, and uneasiness when appearing in society.
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18Cherophobia
There is a psychological condition known as Cherophobia. It quite literally means the fear of being happy. Individuals with this condition are said to experience anxiety at joyful events like parties, refuse to engage in life-improving opportunities, and shun joyous people.
19Atelophobia
Atelophobia is the fear of not being good enough or a fear of imperfection. An atelophobic has the fear that whatever he is doing is wrong in some way.
20Pteridophobia
Austrian neurologist Sigmund Freud had a morbid fear of ferns a.k.a. “Pteridophobia.”
