The Top 10 Strangest Phobias
Number 10: Arithmophobia
An exaggerated fear of numbers which causes intense feelings of fear and/or panic. The fear could be inadvertently caused by a parent, putting too much pressure on a child in a math class, or it could be rooted in a person’s religion or cultural beliefs. A person with arithmophobia can fear certain numbers like ‘13’ or ‘666’, math equations, or all numbers.
Number 9: Allodoxaphobia
A fear of opinions. People with allodoxaphobia live in a state of constant paranoia that they will overhear people’s opinions about them. They tend to become reclusive and avoid situations where they will have to be around people.
Number 8: Scriptophobia
Sufferers of scriptophobia have a fear of writing in public. People with severe scriptophobia will actually faint at the mere suggestion or thought of having to write in public. They become overly concerned with their safety while writing and will write very slowly with a trembling hand.
Number 7: Alliumphobia
People with the fear of garlic have alliumphobia. Sufferers can have severe panic attacks or become hysterical if they see or smell garlic. Most of those afflicted have strong cultural beliefs or religious connections with garlic. In some cultures witchcraft and evil spirits are associated with garlic.
Number 6: Sinistrophobia
Sinistrophobia has no logical basis or foundation other than the brain distorting a negative experience or emotion with the left hand side. Sufferers will avoid using their left hand or touching someone else’s left hand. Objects that have even been touched by someone’s left hand are also avoided.
Number 5: Bibliophobia
When clergy or other powerful religious speakers would start preaching while holding books and condemning the gathering crowd, some became fearful of books. Book burning is thought to stem from those suffering from bibliophobia. A group of people become terrified of the contents of certain books or even all books.
Number 4: Euphobia
The fear of good news. Euphobia usually stems from receiving good news like winning the lottery and then finding out you didn’t. Sufferers tend to do better in a chaotic environment and/or surrounded with other like-minded, negative people. Cognitive therapy and hypnosis to switch around the negative and positive emotions can sometimes cure euphobia.
Number 3: Peladophobia
The fear of bald people is called peladophobia. It tends to arise during childhood after a traumatic event or a negative emotion experienced associated with a bald person. A child might have seen an aunt going thru chemotherapy and associate baldness with disease and/or death.
Number 2: Pedophobia
The fear of children and babies. People with an irrational fear of children and infants have pedophobia. They will avoid situations where children might be present and tend to do their daily errands at night when they’re much less likely to come across an infant or child.
Number 1:
The number one strangest phobia is the fear of sitting is also known as cathisophobia. The elderly and young children are known to develop this fear. The elderly correlate sitting with pain (i.e. joints, hemorrhoids, tail bone, etc.) and children correlate sitting with boredom and being stuck. Sufferers might also fear sitting in a specific location or around a specific group of people. Anti-anxiety medication for cathisophobia is typically prescribed and successful at helping the person overcome their irrational fear.
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Do you have any crazy fears or phobias? Or do you know anyone who does? What are some of the strangest phobias you’ve ever heard of?
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