Situational phobias

Claustrophobia is a fear or anxiety of confined spaces. It is triggered by many situations or stimuli, including elevators, especially when crowded to capacity, windowless rooms, and hotel rooms with closed doors and sealed windows. Even bedrooms with a lock on the outside, small cars, and tight-necked clothing can induce a response in those with claustrophobia. It is typically classified as an anxiety disorder, which often results in panic attacks. The onset of claustrophobia has been attributed to many factors, including a reduction in the size of the amygdala, classical conditioning, or a g

Acrophobia, also known as hypsophobia, is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up. It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort, that share similar causes and options for treatment.

fear of flying

common fear or phobia among children and, to a varying degree, adults

Nomophobia (short for "no mobile phobia") is the fear of not having a working mobile phone. It has been considered a symptom of problematic digital media use in mental health, the definitions of which are not standardized for technical and genetic reasons.

Autophobia is the specific phobia or a morbid fear or dread of oneself or of being alone, isolated, abandoned, and ignored. This condition is associated with the idea of being alone, often causing severe anxiety.

Nosophobia, also known as disease phobia or illness anxiety disorder, is the irrational fear of contracting a disease, a type of specific phobia. Primary fears of this kind are fear of contracting HIV infection (AIDS phobia or HIV serophobia), pulmonary tuberculosis (phthisiophobia), sexually transmitted infections (syphilophobia or venereophobia), cancer (carcinophobia), heart diseases (cardiophobia), COVID-19 (coronaphobia), and catching the common cold or flu.

Glossophobia or speech anxiety is the fear of public speaking. The word glossophobia derives from the Greek γλῶσσα glossa (tongue) and φόβος phobos (fear or dread). The causes of glossophobia are uncertain but explanations include communibiology and the illusion of transparency. Further explanations range from nervousness produced by a lack of preparation to, one of the most common psychiatric disorders, social anxiety disorder (SAD).

Paruresis, also known as shy bladder syndrome, is a type of phobia in which a person is unable to urinate in the real or imaginary presence of others, such as in a public restroom. The analogous condition that affects bowel movement is called parcopresis or shy bowel.

Haphephobia (also known as aphephobia, haphophobia, hapnophobia, hapnephobia, haptephobia, haptophobia, thixophobia, aphenphosmphobia, chiraptophobia) is a specific phobia that involves the fear of touching or of being touched.

thumb|Inventors addressed the fear of being buried alive with safety coffins. Taphophobia (from Greek τάφος – taphos, "grave, tomb" and φόβος – phobos, "fear") is an abnormal (psychopathological) phobia of being buried alive as a result of being incorrectly pronounced dead.

abnormal fear or dread of visiting the dentist

Gymnophobia is a fear (phobia) of or prejudice against nudity.

thumb | right | Pierre Janet, the man who coined the term "scopophobia" Scopophobia, scoptophobia, or ophthalmophobia, is an anxiety disorder characterized by an excessive fear of being stared at in public or stared at by others. Scopophobia is also commonly associated with schizophrenia and other psychiatric disorders. Often, scopophobia will result in symptoms common with other anxiety disorders.

fear of driving a vehicle

phobia that affects a person's ability to cross a street or roadway

physiological condition

Iatrophobia is the extreme fear of medical attention, even with signs of a serious illness. The term "iatrophobia" comes from the Greek words iatros, meaning healer, and phobos, meaning fear. While there is no information regarding the prevalence of iatrophobia specifically, a survey found that 1 in 3 Americans avoid going to the doctor, even when they feel it is necessary. Rates of iatrophobia likely increased following the COVID-19 pandemic, where individuals experiencing iatrophobia avoided testing for the virus or visiting a physician with symptoms.

Parcopresis, also termed psychogenic fecal retention or shy bowel, and known colloquially as poop shy, is the inability to defecate without a certain level of privacy. It can be either a difficulty or inability to defecate due to significant psychological distress, and is associated with avoidance in public and social situations. It is typically researched alongside and has comorbidity with paruresis, which is an inability or difficulty to urinate in the presence of others.

natural fear typical of most humans and mammals