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.

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.