While many of us are familiar with common fears like spiders or heights, some phobias are surprisingly strange and lesser-known. These unusual fears are humorous to those who don’t suffer from them.

But while many people are familiar with common fears like heights (acrophobia), spiders (arachnophobia), or public speaking (glossophobia), some phobias take a stranger turn—so unusual they almost ...

A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes an excessive, marked, irrational fear of a specific object or situation. Someone with a phobia could be afraid of certain people, animals, objects, ...

Fear of learning, where students avoid new information due to anxiety over the complexity or challenge of education. Fear of numbers, causing intense anxiety when dealing with mathematical ...

Butterflies represent transformation and hope … but not for Nicole Kidman. The Oscar winner, 56, developed a phobia of the winged insects as a child in Australia when she came home and found a ...

However, there seem to be weak points for everyone. And there are some weird and strange phobias and fears for some celebrities. From actors to singers, there are ten of them who have unique fears.

The fear that a person experiences is usually a normal reaction to trying to protect oneself from something that poses a threat. Fear, in particular, helped humanity evolve by keeping us from dying in ...

Johns Hopkins Medicine explains that a phobia is more than fear, LiveScience writes. People with phobias do everything possible to avoid the source of their uncontrollable and overwhelming fear and ...