Fears & Phobias: Beginning with 'c'
Approximately one in four adults, or 57.7 million Americans, suffer from a mental health disorder each year, according to the National Institute of Mental Health. Mental disorders are under-reported in the United States, so the actual numbers could be much higher. Cynophobia is one of the most common phobias.
Cacophobia: Fear of ugliness.
Cainophobia or Cainotophobia: Fear of newness, novelty.
Caligynephobia: Fear of beautiful women.
Cancerophobia: Fear of cancer.
Carcinophobia: Fear of cancer.
Cardiophobia: Fear of the heart.
Carnophobia: Fear of meat.
Catagelophobia: Fear of being ridiculed.
Catapedaphobia: Fear of jumping from high and low places.
Cathisophobia: Fear of sitting.
Catoptrophobia: Fear of mirrors.
Cenophobia or Centophobia: Fear of new things or ideas.
Ceraunophobia: Fear of thunder.
Chaetophobia: Fear of hair.
Cheimaphobia or Cheimatophobia: Fear of cold.
Chemophobia: Fear of chemicals or working with chemicals.
Cherophobia: Fear of gaiety.
Chionophobia: Fear of snow.
Chiraptophobia: Fear of being touched.
Cholerophobia: Fear of anger or the fear of cholera.
Chorophobia: Fear of dancing.
Chrometophobia or Chrematophobia: Fear of money.
Chromophobia or Chromatophobia: Fear of colors.
Chronomentrophobia: Fear of clocks.
Chronophobia: Fear of time.
Cibophobia or Sitophobia or Sitiophobia: Fear of food.
Claustrophobia: Fear of confined spaces.
Cleithrophobia or Cleisiophobia: Fear of being locked in an enclosed place.
Cleptophobia: Fear of stealing.
Climacophobia: Fear of stairs, climbing or of falling downstairs.
Clinophobia: Fear of going to bed.
Clithrophobia or Cleithrophobia: Fear of being enclosed.
Cnidophobia: Fear of strings.
Coimetrophobia: Fear of cemeteries.
Coitophobia: Fear of coitus.
Cometophobia: Fear of comets.
Contreltophobia: Fear of sexual abuse.
Coprastasophobia: Fear of constipation.
Coprophobia: Fear of feces.
Coulrophobia: Fear of clowns.
Counterphobia: The preference by a phobic for fearful situations.
Cremnophobia: Fear of precipices.
Cryophobia: Fear of extreme cold, ice or frost.
Crystallophobia: Fear of crystals or glass.
Cyberphobia: Fear of computers or working on a computer.
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Cyclophobia: Fear of bicycles.
Cymophobia: Fear of waves or wave like motions.
Cynophobia: Fear of dogs or rabies.
Cypridophobia, Cypriphobia, Cyprianophobia, or Cyprinophobia: Fear of prostitutes or venereal disease.