Globophobia? I Think So!

Resilient - Able to endure tribulation without cracking.
Acceptance:  Belief in something.
Panophobia:  The fear of everything.
Oudenophobia: The fear of nothing.  (Actually the fear of the number zero which many equate with nothingness).

Mental illness leading to a physical ailment is incredibly common.  Psychosomatic disorders are physical symptoms that mask emotional distress.  It has been a relief to understand this.  As a scientist I thought that if it couldn't be proved, if there wasn't a root cause that could be weighed and measured and studied, then it was bullshit.  

A few examples of how wrong I was include blushing, where an emotion (embarrassment) causes a physical reaction (surge of chemicals which cause blood vessels in the face to vasodilate).  Tears are a physiological response to an emotion.  I remember reading accounts of surgery done with no anesthesia to gravely injured soldiers who had been given a placebo that they were told was morphine when in fact it was a syringe of saline.  The mind took over and controlled the body.

Here's a quote from "Psychology Today:" Somatization is defined as the tendency to experience psychological distress in the form of physical symptoms.  Astoundingly, in one study of 1000 patients presenting over a 3-year period with 567 new complaints of 14 common symptoms (including chest pain, fatigue, dizziness, headache, edema, back pain, shortness of breath, insomnia, abdominal pain, numbness, impotence, weight loss, cough, and constipation) a physical cause was found only 16% of the time.  This doesn't mean that only 16% of all these complaints had a physical cause and the other 84% had a psychosomatic cause; rather, it means that 84% of the symptoms had no known physical cause.  We still don't know what causes migraines, for example, but that doesn't mean we should conclude migraines have only a psychological cause.

You are by no means obligated to read the following list which I took ver batim from Wikipedia.  There's some pretty good shit in here, though.   I definitely have frigophobia.  This is NOT, as you might think, fear of Frigidaires.  And a shout out to kosioihexekontahexaphobia just for the sheer ballsiness of the word.  Finally, I might add that if you have a fear of buttons or of the number 4 then you're not well.  The number 4?  What the hell is wrong with a solid four?

• Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning
• Acousticophobia – fear of noise – a branch of phonophobia
• Acrophobia – fear of heights
• Aerophobia – fear of flying
• Agoraphobia – fear of open places
• Agyrophobia – fear of crossing streets
• Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects (such as a needle or knife)
• Ailurophobia – fear of cats
• Algophobia – fear of pain
• Amychophobia – fear of being scratched
• Androphobia – fear of adult men
• Anthropophobia – fear of people or the company of people, a form of social phobia
• Aquaphobia – fear of water. Distinct from hydrophobia, a scientific property that makes chemicals averse to interaction with water, as well as an archaic name for rabies
• Arachnophobia – fear of spiders
• Astraphobia – fear of thunder and lightning
• Autophobia – fear of isolation
• Aviophobia, aviatophobia – fear of flying

B

• Basophobia (also "basiphobia") – fear associated with astasia-abasia (fear of walking/standing erect) and a fear of falling
• Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias

C

• Chemophobia – fear of chemicals
• Chiroptophobia – fear of bats
• Chromophobia, chromatophobia – fear of colors
• Chronophobia – fear of time and time moving forward
• Cibophobia, sitophobia – aversion to food, synonymous to anorexia nervosa
• Claustrophobia – fear of having no escape and being closed in
• Coimetrophobia – fear of cemeteries
• Colorphobia – fear or a strong aversion towards a particular color
• Coprophobia – fear of feces or defecation^[4]
• Coulrophobia – fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns)
• Cyberphobia – fear of or aversion to computers and of learning new technologies
• Cynophobia – fear of dogs

D

• Decidophobia – fear of making decisions
• Demonophobia, daemonophobia – fear of demons
• Dentophobia, odontophobia – fear of dentists and dental procedures
• Dromophobia – fear of crossing streets
• Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder – a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect

E

• Eurotophobia – aversion to female genitals
• Emetophobia – fear of vomiting
• Enochlophobia – fear of crowds
• Ephebiphobia – fear of youth; inaccurate, exaggerated and sensational characterization of young people
• Ergophobia, ergasiophobia – fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating
• Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual abuse
• Erythrophobia, erytophobia, ereuthophobia – fear of the color red, or fear of blushing

F

• Frigophobia – fear of becoming too cold

G

• Gamophobia – fear of cohabitation, marriage or nuptials
• Gelotophobia – fear of being laughed at
• Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges
• Genophobia, coitophobia – fear of sexual intercourse
• Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or aging
• Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly
• Globophobia – fear of balloons
• Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak
• Gynophobia – fear of women

H

• Halitophobia – fear of bad breath
• Haphephobia – fear of being touched
• Hedonophobia – fear of obtaining pleasure
• Heliophobia – fear of the sun or sunlight
• Hemophobia, haemophobia – fear of blood
• Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666
• Hoplophobia – fear of firearms
• Hypnophobia, somniphobia – fear of sleep

I

• Ichthyophobia – fear of fish, including fear of eating fish, or fear of dead fish

K

• Koumpounophobia – fear of buttons

L

• Lilapsophobia – fear of tornadoes or hurricanes

M

• Mageirocophobia – fear of cooking
• Melanophobia – fear of the color black
• Melissophobia, apiphobia – fear of bees
• Monophobia – fear of being alone or isolated or of one's self
• Musophobia, murophobia, suriphobia – fear of mice or rats
• Myrmecophobia – fear of ants
• Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt

N

• Necrophobia – fear of death or the dead
• Neophobia, cainophobia, cainotophobia, centophobia, kainolophobia, kainophobia, metathesiophobia, prosophobia – fear of newness, novelty, change or progress
• Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact
• Nosocomephobia – fear of hospitals
• Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease
• Nostophobia, ecophobia – fear of returning home
• Numerophobia, fear of numbers
• Nyctophobia, achluophobia, lygophobia, scotophobia – fear of darkness

O

• Oikophobia – fear of home surroundings and household appliances
• Oneirophobia – fear of dreams
• Ophthalmophobia – fear of being stared at
• Osmophobia, olfactophobia – fear of odors

P

• Panphobia – fear of everything or constant fear of an unknown cause
• Pedophobia, paedophobia or pediaphobia – fear of children
• Phagophobia – fear of swallowing
• Phallophobia – fear of erections
• Pharmacophobia – fear of medications
• Phasmophobia – fear of ghosts or phantoms
• Philophobia – fear of love
• Phobophobia – fear of fear itself or of having a phobia
• Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds or voices
• Pogonophobia – fear of beards
• Pornophobia – dislike or fear of pornography; may be used in reference to the opposition to visual nudity
• Pyrophobia – fear of fire

R

• Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays

S

• Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at
• Sexophobia – fear of sexual organs or sexual activities
• Siderodromophobia – fear of trains or railroads
• Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
• Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors
• Stasiphobia – fear of standing or walking

T

• Taphophobia, taphephobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive
• Technophobia – fear of advanced technology (see also Luddite)
• Telephone phobia – fear or reluctance of making or taking telephone calls
• Teratophobia – fear of disfigured people
• Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4
• Thalassophobia – fear of the sea, or fear of being in the ocean
• Thanatophobia – fear of dying
• Thermophobia – intolerance to high temperatures
• Tokophobia – fear of childbirth or pregnancy
• Toxiphobia – fear of being poisoned
• Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia: fear of having an injury
• Trichophobia – delusional fear of something in the roots of the hair that stops it from growing, or fear of hair loss
• Triskaidekaphobia, terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13
• Trypanophobia, belonephobia, enetophobia – fear of needles or injections
• Trypophobia – fear of holes or textures with a pattern of holes

W

• Workplace phobia – fear of the workplace

X

• Xanthophobia – fear of the color yellow
• Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens