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Sometimes when I can’t think of what to blog about I turn to the internet, the repository of all the world’s information.  I use a website called “stumbleupon.com” which brings up random websites based upon interests of mine which I put in when I signed up.  Today, I found this fascinating website that purports to have a list of phobias.  I have no idea if these are real phobias or just some words some moron dug up, but it is pretty interesting if they really exist.

http://www.stumbleupon.com/su/1keilg/phobialist.com/

·        Agliophobia – Fear of pain. Yeah, don’t we all have that?

·        Atomosophobia- Fear of atomic explosions. See above.

·        Barophobia- Fear of gravity.  You can only live in the space station?

·        Catagelophobia- Fear of being ridiculed. Obviously I do not suffer from this one or else I would not write this blog, or at least not post it.

·        Coitophobia- Fear of coitus. Obviously, not hereditary.

·        Counterphobia- The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.  Explain this one.  I mean really, this sounds like just straight mental illness to me.

·        Dentophobia- Fear of dentists. See the first two.

·        Dikephobia- Fear of justice.  Maybe we should rename this to “The Public Defenders’ Disease.”

·        Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers.  Or pretty much the state of anyone with teenage children.

·        Euphobia- Fear of hearing good news.  No way. This does not exist.  Strangely, there is no phobia for hearing bad news.

·        Kathisophobia- Fear of sitting down.  Useful when getting tickets to sold out events, but very difficult when you have to go to the bathroom.  However, if you also suffer from Scatophobia- Fear of fecal matter maybe you can figure out a solution.

·        Medomalacuphobia- Fear of losing an erection.  Or what we call “Viagra syndrome”

·        Neopharmaphobia- Fear of new drugs.  Which makes this one very difficult to treat.

·        Octophobia - Fear of the figure 8. 13 and 666 also have phobias. 

·        Peccatophobia- Fear of sinning or imaginary crimes. Imaginary crimes?   

·        Pteronophobia- Fear of being tickled by feathers.  Apparently other types of tickling is ok.

·        Rhytiphobia- Fear of getting wrinkles. This must be pretty common as there is an entire industry fighting wrinkles.

·        Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women.  Based upon my experience, this is not a phobia, just self defense.

·        Walloonphobia- Fear of the Walloons.  Walloons?  I had to look it up.  They are a French-speaking people who live in Belgium.  They seemed to be pretty active in the Belgian revolution, which must have put some fear into the royal family.

·        Zemmiphobia- Fear of the great mole rat. See the first entry on the list.

If this list is freaking you out you might have phobophobia- fear of phobias.