Top 10 Weirdest Phobias

in #psychology8 years ago

The human mind is a strange thing...

Here are 10 of the weirdest phobias:

1- Ablutophobia:

This is the fear of taking a bath or cleaning yourself

2-Ergophobia:

The fear of the workplace or workplace environment (how convenient!)

3- Nomophobia:

The fear of not having service. (First world problems)

4- Chaetophobia:

The fear of loose or detached hair. Some may even be terrified of the hair on their very own bodies!

5- Haphephobia:

The fear of being touched

6- Oikophobia:

This is a funny one.. the fear of appliances (toaster, oven, refrigerator, etc)

7- Aibohphobia:

the fear of palindromes, (words spelled the same both forward and backwards) This is yet another made up phobia in the 1980's.

8- Neophobia:

Generally found in the elderly, this is the fear of anything new. Its milder form is unwillingness to part with old habits.

9- Hylophobia:

The irrational fear of wood, forests, and trees, and as with most of the phobias on this list it is often the result of some long forgotten traumatic experience such as being beaten with a piece of wood or attacked in a forest.

10- Trypophobia:

Fear of clustered holes. If this pic gives you the chills, you may fall under this category!

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"Ergophobia"... Me. Mnnn hnmmm. Yup. 100% Those places give me anxiety ;-P

Hahaha same here!

High five ✋ 👋!!! Go Team!!! 😝 May all you do, keep you away from corporate offices and without a JOB ( jump out of bed ) situation @fitgirl 😎

Hopefully steemit can save me from this horrid fate 😂

Oh @fitgirl you got this, don't even doubt it😎

Have you signed onto steem chat?
Promote your post in there, in all the various chat spaces if you have not started yet.
Also, check out the eSteem mobile app too.

Stay well wherever you are.

Thanks for believing in me!! I have not checked out the chat. I will have to do so! But I did download the app :)
Thanks for the well wishes!

Awesome! I noticed immediate upvotes from 20 people on my comments and post using the eSteem app. Mostly from App developers and bots from what I gather. In any case, 0.20 immediate upvote to your comment/post from using the app is awesome and kind of helps ;-) Power it up and steem on.

Will do! :)

My co worker legitimately has trypophobia. I, of course, had to show her the holy picture and the response was great! Phobias really are quite fascinating.

Hahaha thats pretty funny. They really are fascinating!

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