A phobia can be defined as an irrational, intense and persistent fear of certain situations, activities, things, animals, or people. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive and unreasonable desire to avoid the feared stimulus.

Following are the various types of Phobias:

1. Arachnophobia

This is dread of spiders and the chronic arachnophobia can be defined as even fear from the pictures of spiders.

2. Social Phobia

Social phobia must not be bemused with the feeling of shyness. It is actually the fright of facing or being in social setups or situations.  It may emit from various reasons like being examined by others or being appraised nonconstructive in social circumstances. It may also be the feeling unembarrassed by one’s own actions.

The social phobia is normally developed in the early years of human development, .i.e. childhood or teenage.

3. Aerophobia

This is fear of flying and it is one of the most common fears globally. Such people suffer from the fright of travel by a plain. This kind of phobia is also allied with claustrophobia.

4. Agoraphobia

It is fear as well as the evasion of any location or situation where flee or any other kind of help might not be available or the runaway method is somewhat complex. It especially intensifies during anxiety or panic attacks and it may be self perpetuating.

Chronic agoraphobia is where patient believe that the safest place in the whole globe is home and therefore, he/she would like to confine within the vicinity of his residence.

5. Claustrophobia

This is the fear of the restrained places or more specifically, the fear of being confined in small and cramped places. Normally, the people who have been victim to this drear prefer to stay away from elevators, small closets or space under the stair wall, etc.

If such people don’t find escape or it is of complex nature, they may come across with panic attacks

6. Acrophobia

It is the dread from heights. The people undergo fright from heights, may have panic attacks. They may not be in a position to climb down or may put themselves in peril, if they cannot do so. Acrophobia and vertigo must not be mixed, vertigo entail only a shaky and whirling sensation. Height is not the only reason for vertigo.

7. Emetophobia

Fear of vomit.  For people with this phobia, the vision or stink of vomit is awfully horrendous. They therefore, go to extraordinary lengths to avoid this.

8. Carcinophobia

Fear of cancer. It is a well know fact to everybody that cancer is not a transmittable disease. Nonetheless, people with this phobia perceive that they have got cancer, as they have touched a cancer patient.

9. Brontophobia

Fear of thunderstorm. It is also known as astraphobia. People with this phobia, conceal themselves away from thunder and lightning; otherwise, they may come across panic attacks and feeling o short breaths.

10. Necrophobia

Fear of death, dead things, coffins and corpses. It may be derived from the fear of being buried alive.