The fear can be so profound that simply saying the name would invoke multiple symptoms of the fear. If you would like to explore deeper into a specific phobia, you can search that phobia name or fear typeof by typing your query in the search box. Here is a short list of the phobias associated with books and reading bibliophobia. As you may notice while you browse through this list, most specific phobias fall into one of four major categories. The phobia is expressed when fear is attributed to the individual bearing the name. Phobias and their names anne windermere patient advocate april 25, 2011 the national institute of mental health defines a phobia as an intense and irrational fear of. We use the term phobophobia to name the fear of fear or of phobias. You may be afraid of all books or only those of a certain style or.
You can also learn more about phobia symptoms and what fear is. For example, one may have a fear of medical or dental visits, heights, flying, elevators, germs, or. Illustration by jr bee, verywell az list of some of the more common phobias. If you re looking for a phobia name thats not on the listim afraid i. Many of us have fears of one sort or another, but for those of us with a fear that bridges into phobia, or a persistent, irrational fear of a specific object, activity, or situation that leads to a compelling desire to avoid it, those fears are on the next level.
Symptoms of bibliophobia could progress to full panic. From fear to freedom building your best series book 1 by kalliope barlis barlis. Listings underlined may indicate other more serious anxiety disorders such as ocd. Many use inaccurate or imprecise prefixes, such as aerophobia fear of air for. A specific phobia is an unrealistic or extreme fear of a specific situation, object, or setting.
Entomophobia apiphobia myrmecophobia arachnophobia. Bibliophobia from biblion, greek for book is the fear of books. Some phobias may also indicate self esteem issues, ptsd or forms of abuse. While books are a necessity towards learning and growth, there are a few of us out there. Phobias are listed on this page alphabetically by their medical or scientific label. Such fear often arises from fear of the effect books can have on society or culture. One important thing to remember is that virtually any object can become a fear object. Rentz of the laboratory for the study of anxiety disorders at the university of texas, animal phobias are among the most common of the specific phobias and 36% of patients who seek. Many people have only a subset of this phobia, fearing textbooks or historical novels or childrens stories, rather than a fear of all books. Bibliophobia is a relatively uncommon phobia involving the fear of books.
This gives people suffering from bibliophobia a feeling of control on the problem. Cynophobia is classified as a specific phobia, under the subtype animal phobias. It contains a large list of phobias and teaches how to cope with and ultimately cure your fear. This phobia can be confined to just certain book themes, like about witchcraft. Dont always feel the need of treatment because they can just avoid the object of their fear. There are over 100 phobias ranging from the fear of small spaces to fear of spiders to the fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth. Its impossible to name all of the possible fears that people can have, but heres a list of the most common and unique ones. It can be broadly defined as the fear of books, but it also refers to a fear of reading or reading out loud or in public.
While not comprehensive, this phobia list offers a glimpse of the many phobias that can have a serious impact on an individuals life. Learn about this and more with a short list of the phobias associated with books and reading. Please click on the tab at the top of the page called treatments to find out. List of definitions for phobias, or pathological fear of things. Please dont ask me about curing phobias because i know little about them. If failing is your fear the name for the failing phobia phobia mean fear is atychiphobia. All the phobia names on this list have been found in some reference book.
But another of my more recently uncovered phobias is so uncommon, it doesnt have an official name that im aware of. On this page you will find the most complete list of phobia names and what that phobia is about. Overcoming the fear of books or bibliophobia verywell mind. The names of specific phobias are often formed as nonce words, or words coined for a single occasion only. Bibliophobia serves as an informative site on book fear, book phobia, fear of books. It could manifest as the fear of reading a particular type of book, reading out loud in public or even holding a book. This is a fear that often starts as a result of superstition. The english suffixes phobia, phobic, phobe from greek phobos, fear occur in technical usage in psychiatry to construct words that describe irrational, abnormal, unwarranted, persistent, or disabling fear as a mental disorder e. Asked in anxiety disorders, phobias what is the phobia name for fear of libraries. The english suffixes phobia, phobic, phobe occur in technical usage in psychiatry to. Thus, using the rules of phobia naming keep it greek, i am inventing one. Its impossible to name all of the possible fears that people can have, but heres a list of the most common and unique ones, including a fear of phobias, as well as treatment options. If you are looking for a specific fear fear of spiders, fear of animals, etc, go to the list of phobias by category.