What is an example of an irrational fear?

Examples include: Arachnophobia (fear of spiders) Acrophobia (fear of heights) Cynophobia (fear of dogs)

What are people irrationally afraid of?

Animal phobias such as the fear of snakes, spiders, rodents, and dogs. 2. Natural environment phobias such as a fear of heights, storms, water, and of the dark. 3. Situational phobias (fears triggered by a specific situation) including the fear of enclosed spaces (claustrophobia), flying, driving, tunnels, and bridges.

What are the weirdest fears?

Here is a list of 21 weird phobias you may have never heard of:

• Chaetophobia (Fear of hair)
• Vestiphobia (Fear of clothing)
• Ergophobia (Fear of work)
• Decidophobia (Fear of making decisions)
• Eisoptrophobia (Fear of mirrors)
• Deipnophobia (Fear of dining with others)
• Phobophobia (Fear of phobias)

Are Phobias rational or irrational?

Phobias are irrational and disabling fears. If you have one, you’ll do almost anything to avoid what you’re afraid of. Someone with a phobia understands that their fear is not logical.

What does Achluophobia mean?

Achluophobia is fear of the dark. ‘Achluo’ is Greek for darkness and ‘phobia’ means fear. It is one of hundreds of phobias that affect millions of Americans.

What is Alektrophobia?

Alektorophobia is the specific term for phobia to hen/chickens.

What causes Alektorophobia?

While the underlying genetic and psychological causes that predispose certain individuals to alektorophobia are unclear, Sfetcu speculates that it’s quite common, and that many people with mild cases of the phobia are unaware that chickens are the trigger, chalking it up to some other anxiety instead.

What is the silliest phobia you have ever seen?

Linonophobia: This has got to be the silliest phobia ever. A morbid fear of strings! I am sure, all the cats in the world do not have it. Euphobia: This is the fear of hearing good news. Now why in the world would anyone be fearful of that, beats me! Vestiphobia: Commonly known as the fear of clothing.

What is it called when you have an irrational fear?

It is common for people to have a personal goal, such as overcoming a fear of something. For some, it may be an irrational fear that’s bothered them for a long time. Irrational fears may interfere with daily living because they can be associated with high levels of anxiety. Such intense fear is also known as a phobia.

Are You Afraid of the strangest things in the world?

We all have heard of common phobias, like the fear of being bitten by a snake and spiders or falling off cliffs. However, there are many people around the world who have an excessive and irrational fear of the strangest things in the world.

What are some phobias that come from fairy tales?

Novercaphobia: Also known as the fear of stepmother, Novercaphobia, is an unusual phobia that may have originated from fairy tales. I guess the people with this phobia read ‘Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs’ a few times too many. Epistemophobia: This is also referred to as the fear of knowledge.