A phobia is an unrelenting fear that causes one to avoid certain situations, activities or things. Phobias affect over 6 million Americans and are twice as common in women than men. There are several types of phobias including social phobias around embarrassment in social situations, agoraphobia which is a fear of situations that are difficult to escape from, and claustrophobia which is a fear of closed spaces. Other common phobias include fears of clowns, animals, heights, flying, medical procedures involving blood or injections, school, and the number 13.

1. Phobia

2. A phobia is defined as the unrelenting
What Is a Phobia?
fear of a situation, activity, or thing
that causes one to want to avoid it.
Phobias afflict more than 6 million
people in the United States.
Women tend to be twice as likely to
suffer from a phobia compared to men.

3. Different Types of Phobias?
• There are several types of phobias,
including social, situational, animal, and
specific phobias (fear of particular items
or objects). While the list of phobias is
almost endless, we'll take a look at some
of the most common phobias on the next
slides.

4. Social Phobia
Also known as
social anxiety
disorder, social
phobia is an
excessive fear of
embarrassment in
social situations.
Examples include
fears of public
speaking, meeting
new people, and
other social
situations.

6. Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia is a fear
of in a situation from
which one either
cannot escape or from
which escaping would
be difficult or
humiliating.
Agoraphobia tends to
run in families and for
some people, may have
a clear genetic factor.

8. Claustrophobia
Claustrophobia is an abnormal and
persistent fear of closed spaces, as
in elevators, tunnels, or any other
confined space. This type of fear is
excessive and quite common.

10. Coulrophobia
Coulrophobia is
an abnormal or
exaggerated
fear of clowns.
It is not
uncommon
among children,
but is also
sometimes found
in teenagers and
adults as well.

12. Zoophobia
• Zoophobia is a
term that
encompasses
fears of
specific types
of animals.

14. Acrophobia
Acrophobia is
an
abnormally
excessive and
persistent
fear of

16. Aerophobia
• An abnormal and persistent fear of
flying is called aerophobia. This
phobia generally develops after a
person witnesses a plane crash or
loses a family member in a plane
crash or accident.

18. Blood-Injection-Injury
Phobias
Blood-injection-
injury phobias consist
of several specific
phobias including fear
of blood, injury
phobia, and fear of
receiving an injection.

20. Didaskleinophobia
• Didaskleinophobia, school phobia 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.

22. Triskaidekaphobia
Triskaidekaphobia
is fear of the
number 13.It is
a superstition and
related to a
specific fear
of Friday the 13th.