Sound familiar? I’m sure you’ve heard of all the typical life-threatening phobias people suffer from, like hydrophobia, claustrophobia and other common ones. Up until now, I honestly thought these were as strange as it gets. But to my surprise, people suffer from crazier anxieties.
Phobia: An overwhelming and unreasonable fear of an object or situation that poses little or no real danger but provokes anxiety and avoidance.
Here is a list of 30 such phobias that exist for real. Some of these are so strange, you’d want to question psychology and science for their very existence.
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Can you relate to any of these phobias?
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