Considering them from the clinical point of view, phobia are actually a kind of anxiety disorder that make you fear or be petrified of quite mundane things or situations that one might take great lengths to avoid.
There are broadly three categories under which each phobia is typified viz., social phobias, specific phobia and agoraphobia.
There are some people with phobias so bizarre that they need more research into them such as the fear of names and words which is really hard to explain since all of us come across these scores of time in the span of a day and for someone to fear this, it might actually be quite painfully emotionally as well as psychologically.
