Modern Phobias

While some phobias, like claustrophobia, have been around for ages, others are only just developing as a result of our modern day conveniences Some of them are so ingrained in our daily routines, we may not even know we have them For example: Nomophobia - fear of losing access to your mobile phone If, on your way home from work, the top left corner of your phone suddenly switches to "No Service, and your heart immediately drops, you may have nomophobia The UK Post Office coined the term after conducting a survey that revealed 54 percent of the British public feels panicked when they lose access to their phone (This includes losing sight of your phone or running out of battery)

Aedificatorphobia Fear of builders

Agmenophobia The fear that the queue you join will be slower than the other one It might be the post office or the airport check-in. But for some people the Sod's Law of queueing can become a real phobia

Alliumphobia The abnormal fear of garlic

Allodoxaphobia Fear of opinions

Ancraophobia Fear of wind. Apt to affect teenagers returning to school who have spent the entire summer holiday inside playing on their X-boxes 

Antefamaphobia The fear that people were talking about you but stopped as you entered t the room

Anuptaphobia Fear of staying single Anuptaphobia describes the fear of stay. single, which is a very legitimate fear,  especially if you live in a community that lacks opportunities for socializing, like an all-womens/all mens college, or math camp

Arachibutyrophobia Fear of peanut but ter sticking to the roof of the mouth (yes, really)

Atomosophobia Fear of atomic explosions

Carbophobia Fear of carbohydrates 

Catagelophobia Fear of being ridiculed

Cenophobia Fear of empty rooms

Chlorophobia Fear of the colour green

 Chorophobia Fear of dancing Teenagers forced to go to wedding receptions with their dads have been recognised sufferers for many years 

Chronophobia Fear of time moving for ward

Chrysophobia Fear of the colour orange 

Consecotaleophobia Fear of chopsticks

Cyberphobia Fear of computers

Deipnophobia Fear of dining or dinner party conversations

Deipnophobia is an Fear of dinner parties.

Domatophobia Fear of houses or being in a house 

Editiovultaphobic Taken from the Latin words for face and book it means fear of Facebook Or just a fear of having every aspect of your life lived in front of friends you've never met or would ever want to meet

Klismaphobia Fear of enemas

Macrophobia Fear of long waits Linked to the rise in call centres and telephone banking

Editophobia Fear of being edited or deleted

Euphobia Fear of good news Afflicts leaders of opposition parties when poll results and economic figures are released

 Hippopotomonstrosesquippe-Daliopho bia Fear of long words A growing problem among the text generation, IMHO

ipovlopsychophobia Fear of having one's photograph taken

 Kainolophobia Fear of anything new

Mageirocophobia - fear of cooking your mobile phone

Nomophobia fear of losing access to

Nucleomituphobia Fear of nuclear weapons

Omphalophobia Fear of bellybuttons Phobophobia Fear of phobias

Politicophobia Fear or abnormal dislike of politicians

Retterophobia Fear of wrongly chosen letters Growing problem among the would-be text generation.

Rhytiphobia Fear of getting wrinkles

Spacephobia Fear of outer space

Symbolophobia Fear of symbolism

Mageirocophobia - fear of cooking

Famous People and Their Phobias

Napoleon-Ailurophobia, fear of cats

George Washington- aphephobia, fear of being buried alive

Madonna- Brontophobia, fear of thunder

Natalie Wood- Aquaphobia, fear of water She died by drowning

Alfred Hitchcock- Ovophobia, fear of eggs

Woody Allen-Panophobia, fear of pretty much everything

Marilyn Monroe- Agoraphobia, fear of public or open places

Howard Hughes- Mysophobia, fear of germs

Sigmund Freud- Siderodromophobia, fear of train travel

Richard Nixon- Nosocomephobia, fear of hospitals

Apartheid in South Africa

Apartheid means 'apartness" It was a policy used in South Africa from 1948 to 1990 to divide the country into separate areas for whites and blacks. There was segregated education, employment housing and healthcare. Most whites had good jobs and lived in comfort blacks did the heavy work and lived in crowded townships.

The new deal

Part of US President Roosevelt's New deal in 1933 included programme to create more jobs. Young people were given work in the national forests, and a series of dams were built the Tennessee river to provide electricity and prevent soil erosion. New welfare and labour laws improved working conditions