What are examples of social phobias?

What is social phobia?

  • talking in groups.
  • starting conversations.
  • public speaking.
  • speaking on the phone.
  • meeting new people.
  • speaking to authority figures, such as talking to doctors.
  • eating and drinking in front of others.
  • regular trips out, to the shops for example.

What are common fears?

Common phobias include:

  • fear of spiders, or arachnophobia.
  • fear of flying in an airplane, or aviophobia.
  • fear of elevators, or elevatophobia.
  • fear of heights, or acrophobia.
  • fear of enclosed rooms, or claustrophobia.
  • fear of crowded public places, or agoraphobia.
  • fear of embarrassment, or katagelophobia.

What are the Top 5 fears of humans?

Key points. There are only five basic fears, out of which almost all of our other so-called fears are manufactured. These fears include extinction, mutilation, loss of autonomy, separation, and ego death.

What are the 3 types of phobias?

There are three main groups of phobias which include:

  • Specific (simple) phobias, which are the most common and focus on specific objects.
  • Social phobia, which causes extreme anxiety in social or public situations, and.
  • Agoraphobia, which is the fear of being alone in public places from which there is no easy escape.

What are 50 phobias?

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  • Achluophobia: Fear of darkness.
  • Acrophobia: Fear of heights.
  • Aerophobia: Fear of flying.
  • Algophobia: Fear of pain.
  • Agoraphobia: Fear of open spaces or crowds.
  • Aichmophobia: Fear of needles or pointed objects.
  • Amaxophobia: Fear of riding in a car.
  • Androphobia: Fear of men.

What are the Top 10 fears of humans?

Top 10 phobias

  • Social anxiety disorder — fear of social situations.
  • Arachnophobia — fear of spiders.
  • Ophidiophobia — fear of snakes.
  • Acrophobia — fear of heights.
  • Aerophobia — fear of flying.
  • Cynophobia — fear of dogs.
  • Astraphobia — fear of thunder and lightning.
  • Trypanophobia — fear of injections and needles.

What are the top 5 most common fears?

Phobias: The ten most common fears people hold

  • Social phobias.
  • Agoraphobia: fear of open spaces.
  • Acrophobia: fear of heights.
  • Pteromerhanophobia: fear of flying.
  • Claustrophobia: fear of enclosed spaces.
  • Entomophobia: fear of insects.
  • Ophidiophobia: fear of snakes.
  • Cynophobia: fear of dogs.

What are the six basic fears?

The 6 Basic Fears

  • 1) Fear of poverty. Symptoms include: indifference, doubt, worry, over-caution, procrastination.
  • 2) Fear of criticism.
  • 3) Fear of ill health.
  • 4) Fear of loss of love of someone.
  • 5) Fear of old age.
  • 6) Fear of death.
  • 1) Identify your fear.
  • 2) Acknowledge your fear.