(LOOTPRESS) – Do you have a phobia of different types of weather? You are not alone. The most common weather phobias are thunder or lightning and tornadoes or hurricanes, but there are around 15 types of weather phobias.
A phobia is an uncontrollable, irrational, and lasting fear of a certain object, situation, or activity. This fear can be so overwhelming that a person may go to great lengths to avoid the source of this fear. One response can be a panic attack. This is a sudden, intense fear that lasts for several minutes.
Here is the complete list:
- Astraphobia: fear of thunder or lightning (one of the most common phobias)
- Lilapsophobia: fear of tornadoes or hurricanes (or severe weather in general)
- Ancraophobia: fear of wind
- Chionophobia: fear of snow
- Ombrophobia: fear of rain
- Pluviophobia: fear of weather-related to rain and storms
- Antlophobia: fear of flooding
- Heliophobia: fear of the sun
- Thermophobia: fear of heat
- Cryophobia: fear of cold
- Homichlophobia: fear of fog
- Iridophobia: fear of rainbows
- Nephophobia: fear of clouds
- Kalimeraphobia (or Iabilephobia): fear of global warming
- Lemniphobia: fear of water
For specific phobias, treatment involves some kind of exposure to the thing you’re most afraid of. Self-exposure therapy, a form of cognitive behavioural therapy (CBT), can be done using self-help books, self-help groups or online self-help resources.
Also, did you know that the number one fear in the world is Arachnophobia – fear of spiders and the least fear in the world is Arachibutyrophobia (Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth)