We all are afraid of one thing or the other. It may be a person or a thing-tangible or intangible. This fear erupts due to our traumatic experience in the past. And they are hugely irrational. It can grow to an extent where we might need special help, or it can be in small proportions lying in the back of our brain. But whatever it is these phobias does wreck our lives a bit. Here’s top 10 strangest phobias you could have!
1 – Ablutophobia
The fear of getting a bath. It’s probably time for you to get a clinical help or deodorant’s family supply to get yourself clean.
2 – Ergophobia
It is one of the most easily happening phobias. the fear of work has captured many of us. Sometimes this fear is related to the people who do not want to be in a work environment. On a serious note, experts say it is due to several failures at fulfilling the task.
3 – Nomophobia
The fear of having no mobile phones and not being surrounded with them. Also known as “no-mobile-phone” phobia, the person is always under a constant fear of not having mobile service or not seeing their phones ever.
4 – Philophobia
The fear of falling in love or getting into intimacy with someone. People having this often fear the opposite sex attraction. At first they might look gay, but they might not mingle even with he same sex. Generally they have very few friends in the circle and are usually alone most of the time.
5 – Somniphobia
The Fear of falling asleep. Generally this happens to a person due to repeated occurrence of nightmares and the feeling of dying once the fall asleep. They might also loose control to the situations in their lives.
6 – Heliophobia
Is the fear of getting exposed to sun. It mainly happens as a result of lack of vitamin D in the body or due to very less outdoor activities. People sitting indoors most of the time and going out in evenings are mostly to develop this phobia.
7 – Chaetophobia
It is the fear of losing bodily hairs. Many people have tried extreme measure to get rid of their bodily hairs. Even people going for hair removal everyday can be seen as slight symptoms of the phobia.
8 – Arachibutyrophobia
The fear of peanut butter jam sticking to the roof of your mouth. Its actually a made up phobia, inspired from the comic strip “Peanuts”. But many people have actually been seen infected with it.
9 – Haphephobia
The fear of being touched. You’ll find too many people infected with it. A slight touch of skin to skin can make a negative impact of your’s and can also land you in deep troubles.
10 – Coulrophobia
It is the fear of clowns. it mostly happens to many of us during our childhood. We are too scared of the evil clowns. Sometimes screaming out of fear of seeing a clown can be attached to adulthood.
