ATTENTION!:

I've extended the deadline for the contest Again Once,well now Im doing it Again!,I've already received a handful of entries and Now some donations+judges but guess what?,Im still waiting for you..yes you!..with the skills..Yeah you!..Show me what you got!
So what is your phobia,what are you afraid of,what makes you cringe just at the thought of it?
Well here's your chance to show it,no matter how bad the phobia or phobias are,throw them down in any media style you can come up with.
If you don't know what your phobia is,I've listed a few with their definitions after the basic run down of the rules and things.
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Rules

•This must be a new piece of work,specifically made for this contest!

•If you choose to do a photomenipulation,any stock artists you get your resources from must be credited in your comments,or you will be disqualified!

•The contest Ends December 31st so entries should be turned in to me before 12 midnight,my time [Wisconsin time.]

•Considering alot of phobias have to deal with some pretty deep things,I'll except any adult content but please be sure to keep in the DA guidelines,I don't want you to get in trouble,and if it is under adult content,make sure to put your mature filter on!

•Everyone is allowed Two Entries but only One can win

•Judges are not allowed to enter,we've gotta be fair to everyone

• *If you cant find your phobia on the list,you can still make an entry on it.

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Art Excepted
•Everything

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Entries So Far: [link]
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How To Enter

•Send me a note and I'll fav your work into the entries category of my favorites gallery.
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Prizes

1st Place
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•avatar of choice
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•Journal interview from
• Personalized stamp from
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•Art of winner's choice from


2nd Place
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•avatar of choice
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• Personalized stamp from
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3rd Place
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Runners Up/honorable mentions
•Avatar of choice.
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Judges


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Phobias And Definitions:

Psychological conditions
* Ablutophobia – fear of bathing, washing, or cleaning.
* Acrophobia – fear of heights.
* Agoraphobia– fear of places or events where escape is impossible
* Aichmophobia – fear of sharp or pointed objects
* Algophobia – fear of pain.
* Agyrophobia – fear of crossing roads.
* Androphobia – fear of men.
* Anthropophobia – fear of people
* Anthophobia – fear of flowers.
* Aquaphobia– fear of water.
* Astraphobia – fear of thunder, lightning and storms
* Aviophobia– fear of flying.
* Bacillophobia – fear of microbes and bacteria.
* Blood-injection-injury type phobia – a DSM-IV subtype of specific phobias
* Catoptrophobia - fear of mirrors or of one's own reflection.
* Chorophobia - fear of dancing.
* Cibophobia– aversion to food
* Claustrophobia – fear of confined spaces.
* Coulrophobia – fear of clowns
* Decidophobia – fear of making decisions.
* Dental phobia– fear of dentists and dental procedures
* Dysmorphophobia– a phobic obsession with a real or imaginary body defect.
* Emetophobia – fear of vomiting.
* Ergasiophobia, – fear of work or functioning,
* Ergophobia – fear of work or functioning.
* Erotophobia – fear of sexual love or sexual questions.
* Erythrophobia – pathological blushing.
* Gelotophobia - fear of being laughed at.
* Gephyrophobia – fear of bridges.
* Gerascophobia – fear of growing old or ageing.
* Gerontophobia – fear of growing old, or a hatred or fear of the elderly.
* Glossophobia – fear of speaking in public or of trying to speak.
* Gymnophobia – fear of nudity.
* Gynophobia – fear of women.
* Haptephobia – fear of being touched.
* Heliophobia – fear of sunlight.
* Hemophobia, Haemophobia – fear of blood.
* Hexakosioihexekontahexaphobia – fear of the number 666.
* Hoplophobia – fear of weapons, specifically firearms
* Ligyrophobia – fear of loud noises.
* Lipophobia – fear/avoidance of fats in food.
* Megalophobia - fear of large/oversized objects.
* Mysophobia – fear of germs, contamination or dirt.
* Necrophobia – fear of death, the dead.
* Neophobia– fear of newness, novelty.
* Nomophobia – fear of being out of mobile phone contact.
* Nosophobia – fear of contracting a disease.
* Nyctophobia– fear of darkness.
* Osmophobia– fear of smells.
* Paraskavedekatriaphobia – fear of Friday the 13th.
* Panphobia – fear of everything.
* Phasmophobia - fear of ghosts, spectres or phantasms.
* Phagophobia – fear of swallowing.
* Phobophobia – fear of having a phobia.
* Phonophobia – fear of loud sounds.
* Pyrophobia – fear of fire.
* Radiophobia – fear of radioactivity or X-rays.
* Sociophobia – fear of people or social situations
* Scopophobia – fear of being looked at or stared at.
* Somniphobia – fear of sleep.
* Spectrophobia – fear of mirrors and one's own reflections.
* Taphophobia – fear of the grave, or fear of being buried alive
* Technophobia – fear of technology
* Telephone phobia, fear or reluctance of making or taking phone calls.
* Tetraphobia – fear of the number 4.
* Tokophobia – fear of childbirth.
* Tomophobia – fear or anxiety of surgeries/surgical operations.
* Traumatophobia – a synonym for injury phobia, a fear of having an injury
* Triskaidekaphobia, Terdekaphobia – fear of the number 13.
* Trypanophobia, Belonephobia, Enetophobia – fear of needles or injections.
* Workplace phobia – fear of the work place.
* Xenophobia – fear of strangers, foreigners, or aliens.

Animal phobias

* Ailurophobia – fear/dislike of cats.
*Animal phobia - fear of certain animals, a category of specific phobias.
* Apiphobia – fear/dislike of bees
* Arachnophobia – fear/dislike of spiders.
* Chiroptophobia – fear/dislike of bats.
* Cynophobia – fear/dislike of dogs.
* Entomophobia – fear/dislike of insects.
* Equinophobia – fear/dislike of horses
* Herpetophobia - fear/dislike of reptiles.
* Ichthyophobia – fear/dislike of fish.
* Musophobia – fear/dislike of mice and/or rats.
* Ophidiophobia – fear/dislike of snakes.
* Ornithophobia – fear/dislike of birds.
* Scoleciphobia – fear of worms.
* Selachophobia - fear/dislike of sharks.
* Zoophobia – a generic term for animal phobias.

Non-psychological conditions

* 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.
* Heliophobia/Heliophobic – aversion to sunlight.


Prejudice Phobias

* Chemophobia – prejudice against artificial substances in favour of 'natural' substances.
* Ephebiphobia – fear/dislike of youth.
* Gerontophobia– fear of growing old
* Hoplophobia – aversion to firearms or firearms owners.


Jocular and fictional phobias

* Aibohphobia – a joke term for the fear of palindromes
* Anachrophobia – fear of temporal displacement
* Arachibutyrophobia – fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth.
* Nihilophobia - fear of nothingness.
* Venustraphobia – fear of beautiful women.