Phonophobia
Phonophobia by Keiradahuman November 5, 2019
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Phonophobia
When a person feels a high level of anxiety at having to use the telephone; a phobic response to making calls possibly due to social awkwardness.
1.
Steve - "The boss told me to call our whole client list, but faced with all those people to phone I started to hyperventilate."
Jess - "Woah dude, you have a case of phonophobia big time."
2. I knew I had to call up my insurance company and complain, but I started dreading the awful hold music and my phonophobia got the better of me.
Steve - "The boss told me to call our whole client list, but faced with all those people to phone I started to hyperventilate."
Jess - "Woah dude, you have a case of phonophobia big time."
2. I knew I had to call up my insurance company and complain, but I started dreading the awful hold music and my phonophobia got the better of me.
Phonophobia by Posing A Threat December 18, 2012
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Panophobia
Fear of everything
Person: Ahhhhhhh! A marker! Ahhhhhhhh! A computer! Ahhhhhhhh! A banana! Ahhhhhhhh! A notebook! Ahhhhhhhh! A garden gnome!
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Person 1: Ahhhhhhhh! A person!
Person 2: Hmmmm.... seems to me you have a bad case of Panophobia...
Person 1: Ahhhhhhhh! A person!
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The phobia of being scared. If you have it, you're literary scared of being scared... It's like, phobiception.
You're scared that you'll be scared, but then you realise you're scared of being scared, so then you're scared and then you're even more scared, because you just realised you're scared of being scared and that makes you even more scared which makes you so scared that you're very very scared which completely scares you and you're so scared of being scared that you can't help being scared, but you're scared that you are scared... That's phobophobia for you :/
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