F40.2
Specific (isolated) phobias
Coding guidance (WHO 2019)
Phobias restricted to highly specific situations such as proximity to particular animals, heights, thunder, darkness, flying, closed spaces, urinating or defecating in public toilets, eating certain foods, dentistry, or the sight of blood or injury. Though the triggering situation is discrete, contact with it can evoke panic as in agoraphobia or social phobia. Acrophobia Animal phobias Claustrophobia Simple phobia Excl.: dysmorphophobia (nondelusional) (F45.2) nosophobia (F45.2)