A fear of nosebleeds can affect everyday situations involving bleeding nose, blood from nose and nosebleed. It may lead to monitoring sensations or bodily changes, avoiding particular situations, seeking reassurance, or organising routines around preventing the feared outcome.

Possible triggers

Noticing blood from the nose, seeing someone with a nosebleed or anticipating another episode.

Name origin

From Greek epistaxis (nosebleed) and -phobia.

The fear concerns seeing a naked person or an uncovered part of the body.

Possible triggers

Using a communal changing area, seeing nudity in a film or anticipating undressing in front of someone.

Name origin

From Greek gymnos (naked) and phobos (fear).

Also known as

Nudophobia

A fear of numbers can affect everyday situations involving doing sums, mathematics, statistics and numbers. It may lead to monitoring thoughts and mental sensations, seeking reassurance, avoiding information or situations that trigger the fear, or trying hard to suppress particular thoughts.

Possible triggers

Looking at a page of figures, doing a calculation or being asked to work with numbers.

Name origin

From Greek arithmos (number) and -phobia.

Also known as

Numerophobia

A fear centred on obesity or body size can affect mirrors, clothing, eating, social situations and encounters with different body shapes. It may lead to body checking, avoidance, reassurance-seeking or choices becoming organised around preventing or escaping the feared appearance.

Possible triggers

Encountering obesity-related imagery or focusing on body size. Body size does not make a person threatening.

Name origin

From Greek kakos (bad) and morphe (form) with -phobia.

The position of an object on the left is the defining feature.

Possible triggers

Noticing objects arranged to your left or being asked to sit with something on that side.

Name origin

Combines levo- (on the left), from Latin laevus, with Greek-derived -phobia (fear).

The position of something on the right is the focus. The term has also been used for fear of right-handedness.

Possible triggers

Noticing objects arranged to your right or being asked to sit with something on that side.

Name origin

Combines Latin dexter (right or on the right-hand side) with Greek-derived -phobia (fear).

The combination of height and an open setting is the focus.

Possible triggers

Standing on an open elevated platform, approaching an exposed viewpoint or looking down from an open height.

Name origin

Combines Greek aer (air), akros (high or topmost) and -phobia (fear).

A fear of open or hard-to-escape public spaces can affect shopping, queues, public transport, busy places and leaving home. It may lead to changing routes, needing an escape plan, relying on another person or gradually avoiding places that feel difficult to leave.

Possible triggers

Examples include leaving home alone, travelling by public transport or visiting a shopping centre when getting away or finding help feels difficult.

Name origin

From Greek agora (public marketplace) and -phobia.

A fear of ordinary life or routine can affect everyday situations involving everyday life, normal day, mundane tasks and ordinary things. It may lead to avoiding change, delaying plans, seeking reassurance, or keeping life unusually restricted so that the feared situation is less likely to arise.

Possible triggers

Following the same daily schedule, imagining a conventional future or feeling that life is becoming routine.

Name origin

From Greek koinos (common or ordinary) and -phobia.

A fear of other people’s opinions can affect everyday situations involving public debate, people sharing views, hearing opinions and disagreement. It may lead to avoiding interaction, rehearsing what to say, monitoring other people’s reactions, or replaying encounters afterwards.

Possible triggers

Being offered unsolicited advice, hearing disagreement with your view or being asked to listen to others' opinions.

Name origin

From Greek allos (other) and doxa (opinion) with -phobia.