which range from fear of computers to an anxiety about specific numbers (not just fear of the number 13, or triskaidekaphobia). Phobias - the word is Greek for 'fear' - have always been part of ...

According to Phobialist.com, which catalogues hundreds of tormenting phobias, people suffer from the fear of the number 8, or octophobia, and the fear of 13, triskaidekaphobia; the fear of noise ...

From fog to flooding, here are 13 of the most common weather phobias: •Anablephobia: Fear of looking at the sky •Nephobphobia: Fear of rain or clouds •Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and ...

The word phobia comes from the Ancient Greek god of ... There’s also dodecaphobia, which is the (again, unofficial) fear of the number 12 - can you see how many letters make up that one?

The child had suffered low self-esteem, compounded by falling behind at school, the report said A 13-year-old boy who took his own life suffered from "acute school phobia", a report found.

Weather-related fears are among the most common phobias, affecting up to 12% of people, according to a study published in the Bulletin of the American Meteorological Society. "Storm phobia alone ...

From fog to flooding, here are 13 of the most common weather phobias: •Anablephobia: Fear of looking at the sky •Nephobphobia: Fear of rain or clouds •Astraphobia: Fear of thunder and lightning ...