A phobia is defined as an unrelenting fear of a situation, activity, or thing that causes one to want to avoid it. Phobias afflict over 6 million people in the US, with women being twice as likely to suffer from a phobia compared to men. There are several types of phobias including social phobias, specific phobias, and situational phobias. Some common phobias include social phobia, agoraphobia, claustrophobia, fear of clowns, fear of animals, acrophobia, aerophobia, fear of blood/injections/injuries, school phobia, and fear of the number 13.

1. Phobia

2. What Is a Phobia?
A phobia is defined as the unrelenting 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 heights.

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.