This one'll will stump you, I feel sure??
Question: What is the phobia name if you have the following fear:-?
FEAR OF METAL COAT HANGERS
Or is it a sub-catagory off a main phobia?
10 points to the first genuine answer, where I can confirm the answer is correct - i.e. a website that has a phobia list that actually NAMES it and/or at least a plausible answer that I feel makes logical sense - because I'm damned if I can find a phobia list that names it!
Answers: Hi that probably comes under the Metallophobia. phobia a fear of metal
Mommydearestdon'tkillme syndrome?
OK OK I'm working on it.
It's called Metallaufhängerfurcht, named by a German psychologist Klaus von Schroegel.
He discovered it during a counseling session with a wealth Boeblingen matron whose mother walked into her room in the middle of the night to admire her dresses. When she saw those frocks were hung on metal hangers, she awoke her daughter and beat her.
Dr. von Schroegel began asking all his patients if they have any fear of metal hangers. He found none of the men and 46 per cent of the women responded affirmatively, telling essentially the same story.
Neither the wealthy matron nor any of her fellow victims have hangers of any kind in their closets. They all fold their clothing and place them on shelves. Of this group, 32 per cent have a fear of wooden or metal closet poles. Many won't stay in hotels because of it.
Today, this phenomenon is treated worldwide, with very little success. Some experimenters have taken the shelves out of the closets only to observe that victims merely piled their clothes on the closet floor.
Another study revealed that a majority of females attending a nudist camp suffered from this malady. Other studies are under way to determine the cause of nudism may be related to the wire hangers. A preliminary finding of another study has tentatively concluded that men overwhelmingly prefer women who have this fear of metal hangers.
Specific phobia. Also known as simple phobia, it is diagnosed in people who have phobias associated with specific objects or situations (e.g., animals, elevators) that do not have intrinsic danger.
:) i got your answer!
Metallophobia- Fear of metal. is all i can find
so maybe metallohangerphobia LOL
did u get smacked with one when u where a kid or some thing that is one weird phobia i like it!!!!
www.phobialist.com
good luck
The Kinks knew about it ~ but didn't name it.
I found a huge list of phobias but i could not get your answer. Sorry fo the inconvenience.
n many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms, see, e.g., personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality disorder, love-shyness, love sickness.
* Acrophobia, Altophobia — fear of heights.
* Agoraphobia — fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
* Algophobia — fear of pain.
* Androphobia — fear of males.
* Anthropomorphobia — fear or dislike of anthropomorphic traits.
* Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia — fear of water
* Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia — fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
* Autophobia — fear of being alone.
* Aviophobia, Aviatophobia — fear of flying.
* Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia — fear of microbes and bacteria.
* Bathophobia — fear of depth.
* Cibophobia,Sitophobia — aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
* Claustrophobia — fear of confined spaces.
* Clinophobia — fear of going to bed or falling asleep.
* Coulrophobia — fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
* Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia — fear of dentists and dental procedures.
* Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder — a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
* Emetophobia — fear of vomiting.
* Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia — fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
* Erotophobia — fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
* Erythrophobia — pathological blushing.
* Genophobia, Coitophobia — fear of sexual intercourse.
* Glossophobia — fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
* Gymnophobia — fear of nudity.
* Heliophobia — fear of sunlight.
* Hemophobia, Haemophobia — fear of blood.
* Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — fear of the number 666.
* Hoplophobia — fear of firearms (guns).
* Lalophobia, Laliophobia — fear of speaking.
* Ligyrophobia — fear of loud noises.
* Mysophobia — fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
* Necrophobia — fear of death, the dead.
* Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia — fear of newness, novelty.
* Nosophobia — fear of contracting a disease
* Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia — fear of darkness.
* Osmophobia, Olfactophobia — fear of smells.
* Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia — fear of Friday the 13th.
* Panphobia — fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it
* Pyrophobia, — fear of fire.
* Radiophobia — fear of radiation or X-rays.
* Sociophobia — fear/dislike of society or people in general (see also sociopath ).
* Taphophobia — fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
* Technophobia — fear of technology (see also Luddite).
* Tokophobia — fear of childbirth.
* Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia — fear of the number 13.
* Trypanophobia, Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia — fear of needles, injections or of pointed objects.
* Xenophobia — fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
Zoophobias
* Apiphobia, Melissophobia — fear of bees.
* Arachnophobia — fear of arachnids, usually specific to spiders.
* Chiroptophobia — fear of bats.
* Cynophobia — fear of dogs
* Entomophobia — fear of insects.
* Equinophobia, Hippophobia — fear of horses.
* Herpetophobia — fear of reptiles.
* Musophobia — fear of mice and/or rats.
* Ophidiophobia — fear of snakes.
* Ornithophobia — fear of birds.
* Zoophobia — a generic term for animal phobias
Non-psychological conditions
The following medical conditions have nothing to do with irrational fears. However, each usually has a psychological disorder of the same name which is an irrational fear. The behavior of an individual with the medical condition can be similar to the behavior of an individual with the psychological disorder of the same name (e.g., for both usages of Photophobia the person avoids light). The difference in usage is that for the medical term there is an underlying physiological condition that results in the behavior. For example, with medical Photophobia the hypersensitivity to light is sufficient such that at some light levels the person experiences pain which they avoid by seeking darkness. Removing the physiological cause of the hypersensitivity to light results in the person no longer avoiding light. With psychological Photophobia the person fears the light even though there is no current physiological pain caused by light.
* Hydrophobia — fear of water (a symptom of rabies).
* Photophobia — hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light.
* Phonophobia — hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
* Osmophobia — hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.
Biology, chemistry
Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. See for antonyms in Biology section of the -phil- article.
* Acidophobia/Acidophobic — preference for non-acidic conditions.
* Heliophobia/Heliophobic — aversion to sunlight.
* Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic — a property of being repelled by water.
* Photophobia/Photophobic — a negative phototaxis or phototropism response.
* Superhydrophobe — the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
* Thermophobia/Thermophobic — aversion to heat.
* Xerophobia/Xerophobic — aversion to dryness.
Prejudices
One can readily use the suffix -phobia to coin a term that denotes a particular anti-ethnic sentiment, such as Francophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix anti- already exists: Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism. See List of anti-ethnic terms for more examples. Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.
Other prejudices include
* Biphobia — dislike of bisexuals, by either monosexually heterosexuals or homosexuals.
* Ephebiphobia, — fear/dislike of youth.
* Gerontophobia, fear of growing old or a hatred of old people.
* Heterophobia — dislike of heterosexuals.
* Homophobia — dislike of homosexuality or of homosexuals. (This word has become a common political term, and many people interpret it as a slur.)
* Transphobia — fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people.
* Xenophobia -- fear or dislike of foreigners
Jocular and fictional phobias
* Aibohphobia — a joke term for the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself.
* Anachrophobia (book title) — fear of temporal displacement.
* Anatidaephobia — fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (fictional, from a Gary Larson cartoon published in The Far Side Gallery, 4).
* Arachibutyrophobia — fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. The word is used by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle.[3] It had circulated, unattributed, in the Internet for some time until it landed at the CTRN Phobia Clinic website: Working one-on-one with one of our team, with guaranteed lifetime elimination of Sticky Peanut Butter Phobia. From $1497 and up.
* Arachnophobiaphobia — the fear of people who are afraid of spiders. From Gilmore Girls episode 6.22, Partings :
LORELAI: What's it called when you're afraid of people who are afraid of spiders? ‘Cause that one I’ve got.
EMILY: Oh, lord.
CAROLYN: I don't think there's a technical term for that yet.
LORELAI: How about arachnophobiaphobia? 'Cause that makes sense.
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — fear of long words. Hippopoto- big due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- horse compounded with potam-os river , so originally meaning river horse ; according to the Oxford English, hippopotamine has been construed as large since 1847, so this coinage is reasonable); -monstr- is from Latin words meaning monstrous , -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel; -sesquipedali- comes from sesquipedalian meaning a long word (literally a foot and a half long in Latin), -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means fear .
* Luposlipaphobia — the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor (fictional, also from Gary Larson in the cartoon series The Far Side).
* Phobophobia — the fear of fear itself.
Miscellanea
* Choreophobia, hatred of dance, a book by Anthony Shay about Iranian dance and its prohibition after the Iranian Revolution
* Entomophobia, a genus of orchids.
* Venustraphobia, a 2006 album by Casbah Club. The word is supposed to mean fear of beautiful women according to a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News.[1] The word is a portmanteau of Venus trap and phobia .
I don't believe there is an actual name for this particular phobia. I would tend to believe it would fall under metallophobia, fear of metal. You can find the name of just about any phobia at http://www.phobialist.com/. Hope this helps!
i couldnt find anything either ,they have a place to have it names you should submit it.i just sent an artical i found good luck
Metallophobia
Sounds like NUTSY SYNDROME .
Metalcoatedhangerphobia!
FEAR OF METAL COAT HANGERS
Or is it a sub-catagory off a main phobia?
10 points to the first genuine answer, where I can confirm the answer is correct - i.e. a website that has a phobia list that actually NAMES it and/or at least a plausible answer that I feel makes logical sense - because I'm damned if I can find a phobia list that names it!
Answers: Hi that probably comes under the Metallophobia. phobia a fear of metal
Mommydearestdon'tkillme syndrome?
OK OK I'm working on it.
It's called Metallaufhängerfurcht, named by a German psychologist Klaus von Schroegel.
He discovered it during a counseling session with a wealth Boeblingen matron whose mother walked into her room in the middle of the night to admire her dresses. When she saw those frocks were hung on metal hangers, she awoke her daughter and beat her.
Dr. von Schroegel began asking all his patients if they have any fear of metal hangers. He found none of the men and 46 per cent of the women responded affirmatively, telling essentially the same story.
Neither the wealthy matron nor any of her fellow victims have hangers of any kind in their closets. They all fold their clothing and place them on shelves. Of this group, 32 per cent have a fear of wooden or metal closet poles. Many won't stay in hotels because of it.
Today, this phenomenon is treated worldwide, with very little success. Some experimenters have taken the shelves out of the closets only to observe that victims merely piled their clothes on the closet floor.
Another study revealed that a majority of females attending a nudist camp suffered from this malady. Other studies are under way to determine the cause of nudism may be related to the wire hangers. A preliminary finding of another study has tentatively concluded that men overwhelmingly prefer women who have this fear of metal hangers.
Specific phobia. Also known as simple phobia, it is diagnosed in people who have phobias associated with specific objects or situations (e.g., animals, elevators) that do not have intrinsic danger.
:) i got your answer!
Metallophobia- Fear of metal. is all i can find
so maybe metallohangerphobia LOL
did u get smacked with one when u where a kid or some thing that is one weird phobia i like it!!!!
www.phobialist.com
good luck
The Kinks knew about it ~ but didn't name it.
I found a huge list of phobias but i could not get your answer. Sorry fo the inconvenience.
n many cases specialists prefer to avoid the suffix -phobia and use more descriptive terms, see, e.g., personality disorders, anxiety disorders, avoidant personality disorder, love-shyness, love sickness.
* Acrophobia, Altophobia — fear of heights.
* Agoraphobia — fear of a place or event where escape is impossible or when help is unavailable.
* Algophobia — fear of pain.
* Androphobia — fear of males.
* Anthropomorphobia — fear or dislike of anthropomorphic traits.
* Aquaphobia, Hydrophobia — fear of water
* Astraphobia, Astrapophobia, Brontophobia, Keraunophobia — fear of thunder, lightning and storms; especially common in young children.
* Autophobia — fear of being alone.
* Aviophobia, Aviatophobia — fear of flying.
* Bacillophobia, Bacteriophobia, Microbiophobia — fear of microbes and bacteria.
* Bathophobia — fear of depth.
* Cibophobia,Sitophobia — aversion to food, synonymous to Anorexia nervosa.
* Claustrophobia — fear of confined spaces.
* Clinophobia — fear of going to bed or falling asleep.
* Coulrophobia — fear of clowns (not restricted to evil clowns).
* Dental phobia, Dentophobia, Odontophobia — fear of dentists and dental procedures.
* Dysmorphophobia, or body dysmorphic disorder — a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
* Emetophobia — fear of vomiting.
* Ergasiophobia, Ergophobia — fear of work or functioning, or a surgeon's fear of operating.
* Erotophobia — fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
* Erythrophobia — pathological blushing.
* Genophobia, Coitophobia — fear of sexual intercourse.
* Glossophobia — fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
* Gymnophobia — fear of nudity.
* Heliophobia — fear of sunlight.
* Hemophobia, Haemophobia — fear of blood.
* Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia — fear of the number 666.
* Hoplophobia — fear of firearms (guns).
* Lalophobia, Laliophobia — fear of speaking.
* Ligyrophobia — fear of loud noises.
* Mysophobia — fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
* Necrophobia — fear of death, the dead.
* Neophobia, Cainophobia, Cainotophobia, Cenophobia, Centophobia, Kainolophobia, Kainophobia — fear of newness, novelty.
* Nosophobia — fear of contracting a disease
* Nyctophobia, Achluophobia, Lygophobia, Scotophobia — fear of darkness.
* Osmophobia, Olfactophobia — fear of smells.
* Paraskavedekatriaphobia, Paraskevidekatriaphobia, Friggatriskaidekaphobia — fear of Friday the 13th.
* Panphobia — fear of everything or constantly afraid without knowing what is causing it
* Pyrophobia, — fear of fire.
* Radiophobia — fear of radiation or X-rays.
* Sociophobia — fear/dislike of society or people in general (see also sociopath ).
* Taphophobia — fear of the grave, or fear of being placed in a grave while still alive.
* Technophobia — fear of technology (see also Luddite).
* Tokophobia — fear of childbirth.
* Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia — fear of the number 13.
* Trypanophobia, Aichmophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia — fear of needles, injections or of pointed objects.
* Xenophobia — fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.
Zoophobias
* Apiphobia, Melissophobia — fear of bees.
* Arachnophobia — fear of arachnids, usually specific to spiders.
* Chiroptophobia — fear of bats.
* Cynophobia — fear of dogs
* Entomophobia — fear of insects.
* Equinophobia, Hippophobia — fear of horses.
* Herpetophobia — fear of reptiles.
* Musophobia — fear of mice and/or rats.
* Ophidiophobia — fear of snakes.
* Ornithophobia — fear of birds.
* Zoophobia — a generic term for animal phobias
Non-psychological conditions
The following medical conditions have nothing to do with irrational fears. However, each usually has a psychological disorder of the same name which is an irrational fear. The behavior of an individual with the medical condition can be similar to the behavior of an individual with the psychological disorder of the same name (e.g., for both usages of Photophobia the person avoids light). The difference in usage is that for the medical term there is an underlying physiological condition that results in the behavior. For example, with medical Photophobia the hypersensitivity to light is sufficient such that at some light levels the person experiences pain which they avoid by seeking darkness. Removing the physiological cause of the hypersensitivity to light results in the person no longer avoiding light. With psychological Photophobia the person fears the light even though there is no current physiological pain caused by light.
* Hydrophobia — fear of water (a symptom of rabies).
* Photophobia — hypersensitivity to light causing aversion to light.
* Phonophobia — hypersensitivity to sound causing aversion to sounds.
* Osmophobia — hypersensitivity to smells causing aversion to odors.
Biology, chemistry
Biologists use a number of -phobia/-phobic terms to describe predispositions by plants and animals against certain conditions. See for antonyms in Biology section of the -phil- article.
* Acidophobia/Acidophobic — preference for non-acidic conditions.
* Heliophobia/Heliophobic — aversion to sunlight.
* Hydrophobia/Hydrophobic — a property of being repelled by water.
* Photophobia/Photophobic — a negative phototaxis or phototropism response.
* Superhydrophobe — the property given to materials that are extremely difficult to get wet.
* Thermophobia/Thermophobic — aversion to heat.
* Xerophobia/Xerophobic — aversion to dryness.
Prejudices
One can readily use the suffix -phobia to coin a term that denotes a particular anti-ethnic sentiment, such as Francophobia. Often a synonym with the prefix anti- already exists: Polonophobia vs. anti-Polonism. See List of anti-ethnic terms for more examples. Anti-religious sentiments are expressed in terms such as Christianophobia and Islamophobia.
Other prejudices include
* Biphobia — dislike of bisexuals, by either monosexually heterosexuals or homosexuals.
* Ephebiphobia, — fear/dislike of youth.
* Gerontophobia, fear of growing old or a hatred of old people.
* Heterophobia — dislike of heterosexuals.
* Homophobia — dislike of homosexuality or of homosexuals. (This word has become a common political term, and many people interpret it as a slur.)
* Transphobia — fear or dislike of transgender or transsexual people.
* Xenophobia -- fear or dislike of foreigners
Jocular and fictional phobias
* Aibohphobia — a joke term for the fear of palindromes, which is a palindrome itself.
* Anachrophobia (book title) — fear of temporal displacement.
* Anatidaephobia — fear that somewhere, somehow, a duck is watching you (fictional, from a Gary Larson cartoon published in The Far Side Gallery, 4).
* Arachibutyrophobia — fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. The word is used by Peter O'Donnell in his 1985 Modesty Blaise adventure novel Dead Man's Handle.[3] It had circulated, unattributed, in the Internet for some time until it landed at the CTRN Phobia Clinic website: Working one-on-one with one of our team, with guaranteed lifetime elimination of Sticky Peanut Butter Phobia. From $1497 and up.
* Arachnophobiaphobia — the fear of people who are afraid of spiders. From Gilmore Girls episode 6.22, Partings :
LORELAI: What's it called when you're afraid of people who are afraid of spiders? ‘Cause that one I’ve got.
EMILY: Oh, lord.
CAROLYN: I don't think there's a technical term for that yet.
LORELAI: How about arachnophobiaphobia? 'Cause that makes sense.
* Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia — fear of long words. Hippopoto- big due to its allusion to the Greek-derived word hippopotamus (though this is derived as hippo- horse compounded with potam-os river , so originally meaning river horse ; according to the Oxford English, hippopotamine has been construed as large since 1847, so this coinage is reasonable); -monstr- is from Latin words meaning monstrous , -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel; -sesquipedali- comes from sesquipedalian meaning a long word (literally a foot and a half long in Latin), -o- is a pseudo-Greek noun-compounding vowel, and -phobia means fear .
* Luposlipaphobia — the fear of being pursued by timber wolves around a kitchen table while wearing socks on a newly-waxed floor (fictional, also from Gary Larson in the cartoon series The Far Side).
* Phobophobia — the fear of fear itself.
Miscellanea
* Choreophobia, hatred of dance, a book by Anthony Shay about Iranian dance and its prohibition after the Iranian Revolution
* Entomophobia, a genus of orchids.
* Venustraphobia, a 2006 album by Casbah Club. The word is supposed to mean fear of beautiful women according to a 1998 humorous article published by BBC News.[1] The word is a portmanteau of Venus trap and phobia .
I don't believe there is an actual name for this particular phobia. I would tend to believe it would fall under metallophobia, fear of metal. You can find the name of just about any phobia at http://www.phobialist.com/. Hope this helps!
i couldnt find anything either ,they have a place to have it names you should submit it.i just sent an artical i found good luck
Metallophobia
Sounds like NUTSY SYNDROME .
Metalcoatedhangerphobia!
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