More people have phobias than you would think--actually about 19 million Americans. If you do the math, this is 6.3% of Americans. And just wait, if you thought telephonophobia was bizarre, wait until you hear of some of these other phobias. I first thought that this youtube video was a joke, but these are legitimate fears that people face. A few examples are hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia. Having this 14 syllable word entails having a fear of long words. Another phobia that you would think is a complete joke is levophobia or fearing things on the left side of you.
Watch this video to open your eyes to more crazy phobias.
I agree with you. These phobias do seem ridiculous, but there are people who suffer from them and cures are available.
Here are the phobias that were featured in the video. You can get the gist of it with this recap:
• Anthrophobia: fear of flowers
• Arachibutyrophobia: fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
• Aphenphosmphobia: fear of being touched
• Ophthalmophobia: fear of being stared at.
• Hippopatomonstropsesquippedaliophobia: fear of long words.
• Achluophobia: fer of darkness
• Photophobia: fear of light
• Levophobia: fear of things on the left sde of the body.
• Peladophobia: fear of bald people.
• Ligyrophobia: fear of loud noises
• Kinetophobia: fear of movement
• Androphobia: fear of men
These fears are just the phobias from this video. If you are interested at more phobias, a man has come up with The Phobia List. He has been working on it for years and hundreds of fears on on the list.
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