P: EVERYTHING CRIME FROM A – Z

PHOBIAS

Most common fears people share:

Glossophobia – Fear of public speaking.

Acrophobia – Fear of heights.

Agoraphobia – An extreme avoidance of situations that could cause panic; a person perceives their environment to be unsafe. This explains why we relate agoraphobia with being afraid to leave your home—your safe environment that you have control over.

Claustrophobia – Fear of confined spaces.

Coulrophobia – Fear of clowns.

Nyctophobia - Fear of the dark.

More fears:

Kakorrhaphiophobia – Fear of failure

Autophobia – Fear of being alone.

Gamophobia – Fear of marriage.

Placophobia – Fear of tombstones.

Wiccaphobia – Fear of witches and witchcraft.

Xenophobia – Fear of strangers or foreigners.

Dystychiphobia – Fear of accidents.

Phobophobia – Fear of phobias.

Harpaxophobia - Fear of being robbed.

Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia - Fear of the number 666.

Phobias you really don't want to have:

Chrometophobia - Fear of money.

Chionophobia - Fear of snow (living in Chicago, this is a no-no for sure!)

Mageirocophobia - Fear of cooking (someone's got to do it!)

Cyberphobia - Fear of computers.

Phobias writers don't want to have:

Graphophobia - Fear of writing or handwriting.

Peccatophobia - Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes (As a mystery writer, I sure can't be afraid of my imaginary murders!)

Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia - Fear of long words (which is kind of ironic since this is one of the longest words in history!!)

Phobias I have fun with in my books:

Consecotaleophobia - Fear of chopsticks.

Pupaphobia - Fear of puppets.

Modern Phobia:

Nomophobia - Fear of being without your cellphone or being unable to use your cellphone for any reason (absence of a signal, running out of battery charge or minutes...)

And the phobia that says it all:

Panophobia - The fear of everything!