There are more than 200 recognised and named phobias.
Here are some of the more unusual ones....
Find out if YOU harbour one....
Satan - Satanophobia
Going to Bed - Clinophobia
Shadows - Sciophobia
People - Anthropophobia
Sex - Genophobia
Dawn - Eosophobia
String - Linophobia
Dolls - Pediophobia
Being Afraid - Phobophobia
Death - Thanatophobia
Being Buried Alive - Taphophobia
Germs - Spermophobia
Crowds - Ochlophobia
Gravity - Barophobia
Body Odours - Osphresiophobia
Marriage - Gamophobia
# 13 - Triskaidekaphobia
Being Alone - Monophobia
Blood - Hematophobia
God - Deusophobia
Hanging - Prehendophobia
Fish - Piscusophobia