Hello steemians!! How are you ? I hope you all are fine and doing great things. Today I am going to share with you information about **phobia** # what is phobia?? A phobia is an extreme fear of something that, Common phobias and fears include closed-in reality, poses little or no actual danger.place, heights, highway driving, flying insects, snakes and needles..Most phobias develop in childhood, but they can also develop in adults. Generally there are many times of fobia but In this post I share 3 types of phobia you should know about it. # (1) Acrophobia ![](https://d1vof77qrk4l5q.cloudfront.net/img/e5eeaf847301a89cba098e59ce6f30121f19bf05.jpg) Acrophobia is an extreme or irrational fear or phobia of heights, especially when one is not particularly high up.It belongs to a category of specific phobias, called space and motion discomfort, that share both similar causes and options for treatment. Many people experience fear in a high place it's called acrophobia. Approximately 2-5% of the general population have acropophobia, in which women are more affected than men. # (2) HEXAKOSIONHEXERONTAHEXA PHOBIA ![](https://d1vof77qrk4l5q.cloudfront.net/img/d723ce674e06b4bc5c31cac4125d064256802012.jpg) This phobia called fear of number where does this name come from ancient Greek words hexagon c600? hexa conda 60 and see six where put together with phobia to build it if you have seen the honking.. u.s president Ronald Reagan and his wife Nancy for example had their house number changed to 668 from 666 when they move to Bel Air Los Angeles.some people blocked channel 666 from their cable TV list .others will drive around the neighborhood just to change the odometer number from 666 to 667 where does this Fear come from many people believe everything happens for a reason they connections between maybe rang a phone number ending in 666 and broke their leg the same day this fear might also be genetic. People in the 666 number are very impaired. # (3) hipopotomonstrosesquipedalio fobia ![](https://d1vof77qrk4l5q.cloudfront.net/img/59099cd069014f8407761c02fb430aca3dbe4179.jpg) This phobia called fear of long word hipopotomonstrosesquipedaliofobia can actually be broken down into several parts: Hippo- is 'horse' in Greek and potam-os is river. Thus the first part of the word refers to a water horse also otherwise known as Hippopotamus. School going children (or in some cases, working adults) might have experienced being laughed at or having been embarrassed (or found themselves shaking, trembling etc) when reading/pronouncing long words. the fear of long words phobia, are caused by an event that is recorded by parts of the brain (namely the amygdala and hippocampus) as dangerous or deadly. Gyes this three phobia name are very interesting. If you found good content in my post then upvote, comment and follow me @mau007 Thank you Posted using [Partiko Android](https://partiko.app/referral/mau007)