Phobias

Are you afraid of spiders? Or confined spaces? Or maybe you experience a fear of blood - hemophobia? There are mentioned only a few from the huge list of phobias. My bet is that you have never heard about many of them.

Have you ever heard, that there are people, ho are afraid of rain? This fear is named ombrophobia. It is an national affliction that is common in Philippines. Those, who suffer from this phobia says, that they're afraid of rain because they think it causes coughs and cold and flu. And if we cover our books when it is raining with a purpose to protect it, the Philippines take put their books and use it to cover their heads.

Other strange phobia is a dendrophobia - a fear of trees. Victims of dendrophobia believes that trees can turn into flesh - craving monsters when they are not looking at them. They can also imagine come kind of intimidating creatures looking into the tree and feel scared because of that.

One more abnormal phobia is a fear of sun - heliophobia. It is a problem that afflicts hundreds of Americans. Many people have been staying away from the sun because of growing fears about skin cancer. Heliophobia cause a vitamin D deficiency problem, that can be corrected by taking this medicament supplements.

I've mentioned only four types of phobias. But there are many phobias that exists around as, such like a fear of gravity, fear of books, bear of crowded places, fear of people and society and so on. Each of them is named suitably. You can feel happy if you don't have any abnormal fears and can live a normal person's life.

References:
http://psychology.about.com/od/phobias/a/phobialist.htm
http://pinoykasi.homestead.com/files/2002articles/07182002_Ombrophobia.htm
www.overcome-fears-and-phobias.com/dendrophobia.htm - 28k -
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heliophobia