Thursday, December 28, 2006

Phobophobia


Arachibutyrophobia
is a surprisingly common fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth.

I have a hard time believing this is true, but there's actually a company selling a "24 Hour Home Study CD Program" to cure it.

"Arachibutyrophobia can cause panic attacks and keep people apart from loved ones and business associates (this is a bad thing?)
Symptoms typically include shortness of breath, rapid breathing, irregular heartbeat, sweating, nausea, and overall feelings of dread, although everyone experiences arachibutyrophobia in their own way and may have different symptoms." Sounds like the symptoms of any and all kinds of phobias.

Here's a list of my own personal phobias, as learned on The Phobia List today:

Ergophobia- fear of work. My biggest phobia.
Gamophobia- fear of marriage (isn't it funny that it looks like the word "game" is used here?)
Homilophobia- fear of sermons. Especially political ones.
Macrophobia - fear of long waits
Politicophobia - fear of politicians (I think we should all develop and maintain this one)
Mythophobia - fear of false statements, and Tauro-shitophobia - fear of bullshit, like the ricockulous list of phobias billed on the link above.

I'm also afraid of people who suffer from Optophobia - the fear of opening ones eyes.

And my favorite phobia, Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, which is a fear of long words.
I love it.

My thanks for this great image to someone at Worth1000 dot com who calls himself Albaci.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

"Arachibutyrophobia is a surprisingly common fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of your mouth."

Hahaha that's absolutely insane! I saw once a video on the internet, it was part of a TV show and a woman was afraid of balloons! crazy! :))

Donna Piranha said...

Check out that list of phobias. Insanity.