Phobias are one of the most prevalent forms of mental
anxiety disorders that affect people of all ages and interfere with daily life.
Here are 10 proved human phobias and fears..
1. Fear
of getting old
This fear is quite rare in young people but rather frequent
in middle-aged women and men, who are over 50 year old. This fear is
understandable because at the biological level the mission of a woman is giving
birth and upbringing of children, and the mission of a man is reproduction and
providing his family with food and safety.
2. Fear
of being poisoned
This fear is independent and usually does not correlate with
other phobias. This is because, as a rule, this fear affects people with an
intuitive way of thinking. And according to different estimations, these are no
more than 5% of the total world population.
3. Fear
of being a coward
This is a purely male fear that sometimes is experienced by
young people who have a kind of innate sense of responsibility for others.
These people have very developed managerial skills and an innate charisma. Some
women also experience it.
4. Fear
of bacteria and microorganisms
Surely at least once in your life you’ve seen or heard about
people who wash their hands dozens of times a day, do house cleaning several
times every day and cannot touch many innocuous objects only because they are
afraid to catch some “dangerous” virus or bacteria.
5. Fear
of going crazy
It is a rather uncommon and steady fear, which is
experienced only by those who think in abstract terms. Often these are people
who aspire to explore the spiritual world and cognize the universe; they are
often interested in religion, philosophy and physics. These are the people who
can give birth to a brilliant idea, even if initially it may seem a little
crazy.
6. Fear
of intimacy
This fear occurs not only in 16-year-olds, but is also quite
common in 40-year-old men and sometimes women. Surprisingly, this fear affects
people who have an increased libido compared with others. However, these people
have a complicated sexuality because of a bad first experience or deep-seated
resentments and repressed emotions.
7. Fear
of spiders, rats, cockroaches, snakes, airplanes, monsters, demons, mirrors,
high heels…
The common point in all these phobias is that their root
lies in an undeveloped imaginative type of thinking of those people who have an
innate imaginative intellect. Such fears and phobias affect people with an
innate imaginative thinking and so-called sensitive nature, such as actors,
artists, models, etc. These are people who think in images and emotions rather
than logical terms.
8.
Social phobia (fear of public speaking) and agoraphobia (fear of open spaces)
Of course, to some extent, we are all afraid to show our
feelings and emotions in front of others. However, for some people such fear
becomes obsessive and turns into a phobia. Most of those who suffer from these
fears are people with imaginative or systematic thinking.
People of the first
category have an innate creative side and being the center of attention is a
natural thing for them, so the fear of public speaking or of open spaces arises
only in consequence of certain particularities of perception. At the same time,
for people of the second category it is rather a fear of seeming incompetent,
ridiculous or stupid.
9. Fear
of death
This fear is frequent in anxious and hypochondriac people
with imaginative thinking. Such people are the main subjects of the fear of
death and other similar phobias: fear of enclosed spaces, fear of blood, fear
of heights, fear of corpses, fear of pain, fear of rape and other.
10.
Fear of loneliness
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