is there one covering the fear of the tax man
cloughie

I hate spiders and hooded jackets. I suffer from......Anoraknophobia. 

Mine is claustrophobia or cleithrophobia, depending on how you look at it.  It's a fear of being trapped.  A small space is not a problem if I am not trapped.  I have suffered from it on a crowded tube train, in the back seat (just going to the shops!) of a two door car (strangely only actually on the way home - the ride out I was fine!) and also when I got wedged in a rollercoaster car in the biggest room I've ever been in.  I can get the brain-meltdown feeling just watching things on TV like someone trapped in a car crash or someone pot-holing.

It all stems from when I was about 7 or 8 and my older sister rolled me up in an old piece of carpet and left me there.  I think she thought it was funny.  I think I was lucky not to suffocate.

There doesn't appear to be a greek term for the fear of one's wife's discovery of your total for the last 60 days on eBay.

Quote from: poliss on August 15, 2011, 06:37:17 PM
I hate spiders and hooded jackets. I suffer from......Anoraknophobia.