3 Unique Yet Weird Phobias

3 - Deipnophobia 

As you couldn't guess from the name or picture, deipnophobia is the fear of dinner conversations. Dinner conversations can be awkward at times, usually when you're not talking in between eating, but some people have such an extreme fear for conversing over dinner that they avoid dining out scenarios all together.


2 - Pentheraphobia 

This irrational fear has become a well known meme within the United States.  The fear of one's mother-in-law.  As you might have guessed, this fear affects mainly (only) married people.  Of the various ways to treat such a fear, it seems that divorce is the most widely used method because being honest about being afraid of your mother-in-law takes way too much effort.

1 - Cathisophobia

Ever sit on something sharp or possibly have a bad case of hemorrhoids? You might just acquire the fear of sitting down.  The reasoning being that painful past or current experiences with sitting down can lead a person to form a horrible fear of sitting again.  When put into the situation of having to sit down the person usually tends to quickly develop symptoms such as sweating, heavy or short breathing, an anxiety.  I now feel pretty great about a whoopi cushion being the worst sitting experience I've had in the past.