iatrophobia: An abnormal fear of going to a doctor (physician) or to places where patients are treated; such as, hospitals.
Some people who fear undressing in front of others may fear doctors because they are often required to disrobe and cover themselves only with a sheet during a physical exam. Some become so anxious just by being in the doctor's office that their blood pressure increases, a phenomenon known as "white coat" hypertension.
These phobics may fear doctors because they associate them with illness or injury and with authority figures or they are afraid of getting germs or a disease from others in the waiting room.
ichthyomania: An excessive fascination with fish which includes collecting them in aquaria and having many related objects representing fish.
Master, I marvel how the fishes live in the sea.
Why, as men do aland: the great ones eat up the little ones.
-Pericles
ichthyophobia: An excessive fear of fish or of anything related to fish.
This fear may include looking at fish, imagining or seeing pictures of them, or of eating them.
iconomania: 1. An excessive devotion to or a morbid impulse for collecting images (icons or portraits). 2. An infatuation with icons, whether as objects of devotion or as works of art.
iconophobia, ikonophobia: A hatred or dread of images (statues, drawings, paintings, etc).
ideophobia, ideaphobia: An excessive fear of ideas.
idolomania: 1. Zealous idolatry. 2. An abnormal interest in or infatuated devotion to idols.
idolophobia: An extreme hatred of idols which may result in the destruction of such images.
idols: See idolomania, idolophobia
illyngophobia: An excessive fear of vertigo or a fear of feeling dizzy or giddy when looking down from a high place.
Dizziness is a common symptom of many phobics; such as, those who fear heights, looking over cliffs, bridges, elevators, or riding in automobiles.
images: See iconomania, iconophobia
imperfection: See atelophobia
imponereophobia: A distress at being found out that one is really an imposter.
incompleteness: See atelophobia
infants: See paedophobia, pediophobia
infinity: See apeirophobia
injections: See trypanophobia
injury: See traumatophobia
insanity: See acromania, acronymania, agateophobia, dementophobia, desanimania, lyssiophobia, monomania, oligomania, phrenomania
insects: See entomomania, entomophobia, spheksophobia
internetomania: Excessive online use of the World Wide Web. See netomania for additional information.
intimacy: See symbiophobia
iophobia: 1. An excessive fear of poisons which may also be related to a fear of contamination, germs, or dirt. 2. A fear of rust.
Irakophobia: An fear expressed by the U.S. (and others) regarding Iraq.
Iraqnophobia: A strong fear of Iraq.
Islamophobia: A strong fear or hatred of Muslims; used especially by Russians who consider Islam to be the ideology of terrorism, religious extremism, and fanaticism.
- Russian Islamophobia has taken on many forms, from violence, like the skinhead rampage in a crowded Moscow market last year allegedly aimed at "persons of Muslim nationality,"to newspapers that run pictures of local Muslim leaders next to photographs of Osama bin Laden, the terrorist leader.
- Human rights groups have reported a surge in hate crimes throughout Russia, some related to ethnicity, others connected more directly with the presumed Islamic heritage of the victim.
- "They [Russians] say, 'You Muslims kill people.' They equate all Muslims with terrorists."
- Such "Islamophobia,"as it has become known in Russia, has divided and overwhelmed what by the numbers should be the counry's most influential minority (estimated to be twenty million followers of Islam).
Excerpts from: The Washington Post,
'Islamophobia' shakes Russia's Muslim millions
by Susan B. Glasser,
as seen in the International Herald Tribune,
December 26, 2002; page 2.
islands: See islomania, isolophobia, nesomania
islomania: A passion, excessive interest in, or a craze for islands.
isolophobia: An irrational dread of solitude or of being left alone.
isopterophobia: An abnormal fear of termites or of other "wood-eating" insects that are destructive of wooden structures.
Some individuals who are anxious about termites are fearful of being buried alive if the termites cause the collapse of the buildings in which they live.
Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
-Ogden Nash
Italomania: An excessive interest in things related to Italy or Italians.
itching: See acarophobia, uredophobia, urticariaphobia
jealously: See zelophobia
joints (knee, elbow, etc.): See ankylophobia
Judeophobia: An excessive fear of Jews or an abnormal hatred of Jews.
jumping: See catapedamania, catapedaphobia
justice: See dikephobia
