Different Phobias
Most people in the world have a fear of one kind or another. Psychologists have categorized as many as 500 phobias. Many people suffer from pathophobia (fear of disease), monophobia (fear of being alone), glossophobia (fear of public speaking), algophobia (fear of pain), taphephobia (fear of being buried alive), and many others.
There are people who suffer from polyphobia, which simply means to have more than one fear.
There are some people that live with vestiophobia (fear of clothes) and gymnophobia (fear of nakedness). Some people have achluophobia (fear of darkness) and photophobia (fear of light).
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