Didaskaleinophobia (Fear of schools)

(Didaskaleinophobia) is itself a symptom of anxiety disorder in childhood. It is also known as separation anxiety, which is an inappropriate fear of leaving their parents, a person or place of trust or home for example.

It's more common than you would think, and it's very curable.

Most children find going to school exciting and enjoyable although of course nearly all children have times when they don't want to go. This happens commonly at ages where children are faced with tougher school activities or exams or may have fallen out with friends. All of this is a normal part of growing up.
Children who develop school phobia, however, become terrified, trying every avoidance tactic in order to stay away from school. Parents should be aware if their child regularly say that they are too sick to go to school, they could be doing so in order to avoid anxious feelings.
School phobia can present itself in a number of ways:

• Constant thoughts and fears about safety of self and parents
• Refusing to go to school
• Frequent stomach aches and other physical complaints
• Extreme worries about sleeping away from home
• Overly clingy
• Panic or tantrums at times of separation from parents
• Feeling unsafe staying in a room by themselves
• Clinging behavior
• Displaying excessive worry and fear about parents or about harm to themselves
• Shadowing the mother or father around the house
• Difficulty going to sleep
• Having nightmares
• Exaggerated, unrealistic fears of animals, monster, burglars
• Fear of being alone in the dark
• Severe tantrums when forced to go to school

Dikigorosophobia (Fear of lawyers)

Dikigorosophobia is having fear of a lawyer or lawyers.
There's not much info on this kind of phobia yet, but is definitely strange

Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia (Fear of long words)

Fear of long words, ironically called Hippopotomonstrosesquipedaliophobia, or Sesquipedalophobia, is one of the weird phobias that people suffer when they simple have a persistent and irrational fear for long words. Statistics don’t show how many people suffer from this phobia. However, it is in fact a phobia that along with fear of clowns, fear of dentists, fear of success, ergophobia or many more, affects a considerable amount of people in the whole world.

Panphobia (Fear of everything)

Panphobia, also called omniphobia, Pantophobia or Panophobia, is a medical condition known as a “non-specific fear”; the sufferer finds themselves in a state of fear but with no known target, and therefore no easy remedy. It has been described as “a vague and persistent dread of some unknown evil”. This fear is often seen as a secondary condition to schizophrenia.

That's it for today!

Triskaidekaphobia (Fear of the number 13)

Triskaidekaphobia is fear of the number 13; it is a superstition and related to a specific fear of Friday the 13th. called paraskevidekatriaphobia

One of the most common fears, but still senseless, even Adolf Hitler was triskaidekaphobic. Tetraphobia is the fear of the number 4, more popular in China, Japan, and Korea.

Introduction and what are phobias?

Hi there! On this blog, I'm going to post weird and unusual phobias somewhat-daily.

If you don't know what phobias are -

A phobia (from the Greek: meaning "fear" or "morbid fear") is, when used in the context of clinical psychology, a type of anxiety disorder, usually defined as a persistent fear of an object or situation in which the sufferer commits to great lengths in avoiding, typically disproportional to the actual danger posed, often being recognized as irrational. In the event the phobia cannot be avoided entirely the sufferer will endure the situation or object with marked distress and significant interference in social or occupational activities.

Most of the people in the world have a fear of one kind or another. While most people suffer from pathophobia (fear of disease), monophobia (fear of being alone), glossophobia (fear of public speaking),algophobia (fear of pain), taphephobia (fear of being buried alive), and many more, there are also some less popular phobias.

Phobias can deeply impact a person’s life. A person withchronophobia (fear of time) probably won’t make it to their 10:00AM dentist appointment on time. A person with chaetophobia (fear of hair) is most likely bald, has no eyelashes, no eyebrows, etc. A person with cibophobia (fear of food) usually hasn’t eaten in weeks and could easily be anorexic. This proves how serious and destructive phobias can be.