It was a simple, fleeting fear, easily dismissed. The fears that clung to her were his. When he finally told her about them, reciting their names — cleithrophobia, hypsiphobia, dystychiphobia — she thought of insects, multiplying, swarming. He had fears she could hardly imagine: bright lights, long flights of stairs, large panes of glass, the shrieking of a streetcar. That was the sound that had sent him crouching into a doorway the day they met.
2007 July 28, Seth Hammond, alt.law-enforcement (Usenet):
> Hoplophobia is treatable. The NRA sponsors the classes....So is your Acousticophobia and Dystychiphobia. The APA has treatments .
2011, Elisabete Santos, Helena Palma, Gonçalo Nápoles, Raquel Romero, Rita Gabriel, Vítor Grilo, Cláudia Pascoal, “Earn your wings program”, in Aviation Psychology and Applied Human Factors, volume 1:
As stated by Van Gerwen, Nousi, and Spinhoven (2008), flight anxiety can be considered as the expression of other phobias or even a combination of phobias (claustrophobia, acrophobia, agoraphobia, dystychiphobia, bathophobia) contributing to its complexity and eventually leading to extend the treatment …
Karan and Raj were on the bike in their way back to the dorm. Karan was riding between sixty to seventy kilometers per hour. Raj had a case of dystychiphobia. He actually calculated the possibility of suffering a vehicular accident. He gave out pretty good odds of dying of a motorcycle crash. Raj was sitting on the back seat, scared stiff.
2022, Midnight Kale, Manuscripts on a Dusky Evening, volume 1, [self-published], page 407:
Constantly terrified to reach out to you Gaining apathy in its finest structure Fueled by the movements of dismay Ending in the realm of dystychiphobia Knowing the love I want for you Will eventually harm you most definitely
2023, Haadi Dar, compiled by K. Vineela Sushmitha, The Struggle: Of a Confrontation, Free Minds Club, page 22:
Perhaps, your dystychiphobia was absent at that time. I was lost in avenoir of us, dancing balterly.
