Natural Environment Phobias

Specific Phobias

• Natural environment phobias are external specific  phobias of particular conditions in the natural environment.

They are different from situational phobias which are more related to particular circumstances people find themselves in.

Natural environment phobias include:

• Fear of lightning and thunderstorms (astraphobia, brontophobia, ombrophobia)
• Fear of heights (acrophobia),
• Fear of the night (nyctophobia) and Fear of the dark
• Fear of the sea (thalassophobia)
• Fear of the sun (heliophobia)
• Fear of the wind and air (anemophobia)
• Fear of water (hydrophobia)