A-Z Of Phobias

[herringthorpe]

Patient: 'Doctor, I think I've got kathisophobia.'
Doctor: 'Well, sit down and tell me about it.'

 

[herringthorpe]

M Metrophobia - apparently this is the fear of poetry - I mean, who makes these things up!

 

[Lindum]

M Metrophobia - apparently this is the fear of poetry - I mean, who makes these things up!

I had assumed this was a fear of travelling on the tube.

 

[herringthorpe]

I had assumed this was a fear of travelling on the tube.

I bet there's one for that too!

 

[Lindum]

N - Nomophobia; fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Jeez! It seems there is absolutely nothing that someone, somewhere doesn't have a fear of.

 

[herringthorpe]

N - Nomophobia; fear of being out of mobile phone contact. Jeez! It seems there is absolutely nothing that someone, somewhere doesn't have a fear of.

I bet everyone under 30 has this!

 

[herringthorpe]

O Oenophobia - a fear of wine! I don't have this!

 

[Lindum]

O Oenophobia - a fear of wine! I don't have this!

Me neither.

 

[Lindum]

P - Phobophobia - Fear of having a phobia.

 

[herringthorpe]

Q Quadraphobia - a fear of the number four
(I feared for our sanity when Liam Kelly came on last Tuesday. . . .)

 

[Lindum]

R - Ranidaphobia. Fear of frogs and toads. Apparently a fear of frogs is inherent in some folk cultures. Must say I like them.

 

[herringthorpe]

R - Ranidaphobia. Fear of frogs and toads. Apparently a fear of frogs is inherent in some folk cultures. Must say I like them.

We had one the other night wandering around the patio. We used to have them a lot when we first moved in as a near neighbour had a pond but that has long since gone so don't know where it came from.

 

[herringthorpe]

S Spheksophobia - a fear of wasps. My son has this (though didn't know that's what it was called) since he was a teenager and got stung on his neck and we had to take him to A&E because it swelled up straight away. Turns out he's allergic to them.

 

[Lindum]

S Spheksophobia - a fear of wasps. My son has this (though didn't know that's what it was called) since he was a teenager and got stung on his neck and we had to take him to A&E because it swelled up straight away. Turns out he's allergic to them.

I kill them on sight in the house. This is an old place and most years we have wasps nests up in the roof. Can't stand the things.

 

[Lindum]

T - Thalassophobia. Fear of being in the sea. I've had this ever since I watched Jaws.

 

[herringthorpe]

U Uranophobia - this is the fear of heaven or the sky

 

[Lindum]

U Uranophobia - this is the fear of heaven or the sky

I remember a fairy tale about a chicken that convinced everyone the sky was falling after an acorn dropped on its head!
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[herringthorpe]

I remember a fairy tale about a chicken that convinced everyone the sky was falling after an acorn dropped on its head!
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I remember reading that to my children.

 

[Lindum]

V - Veloxrotaphobia. Fear of roller coasters. Hm. Perhaps the cure is not to go on them? Don't think I've ever been on one. Or the big wheel!

 

[herringthorpe]

V - Veloxrotaphobia. Fear of roller coasters. Hm. Perhaps the cure is not to go on them? Don't think I've ever been on one. Or the big wheel!

I used to go on them but not anymore - don't know when I realised they weren't for me. Have been on a big wheel in recent years.