I wonder if any of you have taken the time, even if it’s a second, to consider the stressful circumstances which are Phobias. They “Phobias” (in the clinical meaning of the term) arise from a combination of external events and internal predispositions.
I remember a scene from Days of Our Lives, when one of my then favorite star, Vivian Alamain, when she buried Carly alive and she “Carly” woke up in her coffin. Vivian had rigged the coffin with lights, a limited oxygen supply, a tank of water. That freaked me out for years, oh man…. Thinking about it now gives me hives! When I watched Kill Bill and the same happened to Uma Thurman, it brought back some serious freak-out moments.
So this got me thinking,
what in our world of celebrity addicted television viewers, is the scope of phobias and superstitions? With a strong focus on phobias.
Sophia Loren is reported to be extremely superstitious and always wears something red and carries a packet of salt. Elton John eats off only Versace crockery, believing the designer's spirit lives in every plate . . . (I can say so many things right now, but I choose to pass). Olympic soccer star Brandi Chastain travels with a pet purple frog in her shoe bag "to keep my shoes safe."
Michael Jordan wears North Carolina gym shorts under his trunks. Eminem is scared of owls, go figure!. Andie MacDowell turns the light switch on and off three times before going nighty-night. Don’t they call that OCD?
Rose McGowan, whilst battling agoraphobia, would only leave her house once a week. In the middle of the night. Maybe she should’ve asked the producers to connect her with a real life witch during her stint as “Paige Matthews” on Charmed to cast a spell.
Pierce Brosnan has claustrophobia . . .You mean James Bond has issues! YEAH! Kirsten Dunst has arachnophobia. That's spiders. Jennifer Aniston tried a hypnotist to cure her phobias. "Didn't help," she says . . . When flying, Jennifer Grey has a rigorous routine ritual: "I kiss the plane, walk in right foot first, and sit in a certain position." Stephen King, master of mystery, avoids heights . . . Hahahahahahaha
With Ashanti, it's a bad recurring dream. "My whole family goes on this cruise ship, something happens to me and they're all standing around me." Kareem Abdul-Jabbar: "I've dreamed I was home, and I jumped into my body, and it was falling apart, and it was alarming, and I was looking inside my foot."
Once, playing the role of Hamlet, Daniel Day-Lewis suddenly left the stage and didn't return. Claimed he'd seen his father's ghost . Talk about a spiritual connection. "I was sleeping on my futon on the floor, and some sort of spirit came down from who knows where. And made love to me. And it was sheer bliss. And then floated away. And now this Something watches over me." . . . Hamilton College historian Hans Broedel.
I wonder if any of our local TV stars have any phobias or superstition? Well, we know that they have superstitions, as for phobias ....that would be very interesting. But on the question of phobias, I have discovered a lot of them and these are just a few I thought you will enjoy. Keep an open mind and laugh….
- Ablutophobia- Fear of washing or bathing. “C’mon that is just being dirty”
- Acarophobia- Fear of itching or of the insects that cause itching. “Nasty”
- Agateophobia- Fear of insanity. “Hello!, Ain't we all, when the bank messes you around with your balance. Who wants to see an Insufficient funds notice when you know you have money”
- Alektorophobia- Fear of chickens. “I thought that's what they call being vegetarian?”
- Alliumphobia- Fear of garlic. “Vampire Alert!”
- Anablephobia- Fear of looking up. “That’s not having a neck” hahahahaha
- Androphobia- Fear of men. “That’s called not getting any”
- Anthropophobia- Fear of people or society. “Hermit”
- Arachibutyrophobia- Fear of peanut butter sticking to the roof of the mouth. “That’s irritation”
- Barophobia- Fear of gravity. “Oh, just when I thought they were called ghosts”
- Cacophobia- Fear of ugliness. “Models”
- Caligynephobia/Venustraphobia- Fear of beautiful women. “Bang Gaat”
- Cleptophobia- Fear of stealing. “What we really need in South Africa”
- Decidophobia- Fear of making decisions. “Politics”
- Didaskaleinophobia- Fear of going to school. “Uneducated”
- Dutchphobia- Fear of the Dutch. “Jan van Riebeeck”
- Ephebiphobia- Fear of teenagers. “Parenting”
- Epistemophobia- Fear of knowledge. “Stupidity”
- Eurotophobia- Fear of female genitalia. “Gay”
- Hadephobia- Fear of hell. “Christianity”
- Lachanophobia- Fear of vegetables “Live Stock Farmer”
- Medorthophobia- Fear of an erect penis. “Overwhelmed, hahahaha (had to keep it PG)”
- Papaphobia- Fear of the Pope. “Satanist”
- Phronemophobia- Fear of thinking. “Bimbos”
- Syphilophobia- Fear of syphilis. “On Night Stand”
- Trypanophobia- Fear of injections. “Alcoholism” "Use you imagination
And finally, Phobophobia’s the fear of phobias.
By The Observer
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