A phobia is an irrational, persistent fear of certain situations, objects, activities, or persons. The main symptom of this disorder is the excessive, unreasonable desire to avoid the feared subject. When the fear is beyond one's control, or if the fear is interfering with daily life, then a diagnosis under one of the anxiety disorders can be made.

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It is generally accepted that phobias arise from a combination of external events and internal predispositions. Some phobias such as arachnophobia (fear of spiders) and ophidiophobia (fear of snakes) however, may arise more easily due to an evolutionary trait that conditioned humans to fear certain creatures that could cause them harm. In a famous experiment, Martin Seligman used classical conditioning to establish phobias of snakes and flowers. The results of the experiment showed that it took far fewer shocks to create an adverse response to a picture of a snake than to a picture of a flower, leading to the conclusion that certain objects may have a genetic predisposition to being associated with fear.

Many specific phobias can be traced back to a specific triggering event, usually a traumatic experience at an early age. Social phobias and agoraphobia have more complex causes that are not entirely known at this time. It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a major role in the development of anxiety disorders and phobias.

List of Common Phobias
1. Social Phobia
Social phobia is the fear of being misjudged or the fright of being accused unreasonably. Fear of being evaluated negatively in social situations. Social phobia typically begins in childhood or adolescence.
2. Aerophobia
Aerophobia is the other name of fear of flying. Fear of flying is generally developed after an individual watches incidents of plane crashes on the news, suddenly loses a relative or a compeer due to an unfortunate plane crash or watches movies in which the story centers around a deadly event of an air accident.
3. Agoraphobia
Agoraphobia involves intense fear and avoidance of any place or situation where escape might be difficult or help unavailable in the event of developing sudden panic-like symptoms.
4. Claustrophobia
Fear of being trapped in small confined spaces. Claustrophobia is a form of anxiety disorder during which a person feels extremely afraid of being in enclosed or confined spaces.
5. Acrophobia
Better known as fear of height has caused immense distress to countless people down the years. You feel as if your head is tossing as you look down from great heights during this particular condition of Acrophobia.
6. Emetophobia
Fear of vomit. You may be afraid to vomit or you may also feel awkward to see others vomiting.
7. Arachnophobia
Arachnophobia is a kind of abnormal fear of spiders. Sometimes you may feel that this fear of spiders is absolutely irrational but you cannot escape from the situation.
8. Carcinophobia
Extreme fear of cancer. This phobic condition is quite unnatural as it makes the individual afraid of all sorts of negative bodily symptoms. One physical discomfiture and the person start believing that he has cancer.
9. Brontophobia
Fear of thunderstorms. Brontophobia known as Astraphobia, Keraunophobia, Tonitrophobia or the fear of lightning and thunder, especially affects children. However, the symptoms of this specific phobic condition are also quite apparent in adults and teenagers.
10. Necrophobia
Necrophobia or the fear of the dead is a psychological status when you feel afraid of death or may be you are afraid of dead things.

There are literally hundreds more including Amaxophobia, Androphobia, Apiphobia, Autophobia, Bacteriophobia, Brontophobia, Claustrophobia, Cnidophobia, Coitophobia, Enetophobia, Ergophobia, Gephyrophobia, Glossophobia, Gymnophobia, Gynophobia, Hemaphobia, Homophobia, Hydrophobia, Latrophobia, Lophobia, Microphobia, Noctiphobia, Obesophobia, Phagophobia, Phonemophobia, and Urophobia.