Are you afraid of trees? There’s a phobia for that. What about clowns in general, and not just Pennywise? There’s definitely one for that. According to Psychology Today, millions of people all have phobias that fall into certain categories: animals, natural environments, injuries and other situations like being in an elevator or flying on a plane. Here is a list of phobias you might have and never heard of.
1. Trypophobia
Fear of small holes or bumps
2. Nomophobia
Fear of being without access to a working cell phone
3. Hylophobia
Fear of forests
4. Scriptophobia
Fear of writing in public
5. Anuptaphobia
Fear of being single or staying single
6. Gamophobia
Fear of marriage, or a serious relationship
7. Sesquipedalophobia
Fear of long words
8. Somniphobia
Fear of falling asleep
9. Ombrophobia
Fear of rain
10. Zoophobia
Fear of animals
11. Phobophobia
Fear of getting a phobia
12. Toxiphbia
Fear if poison or being poisened
13. Triskaidekaphobia
Fear of the number 13