hehehe… here’s the blog where i get to suan pple. :P
like… hypoC has got ALBUMINUROPHOBIA (fear of albumin in one’s urine as a sign of kidney disease) or more importantly, he has ATAXIOPHOBIA (fear of disorder)
some female friends of mine have ANUPTAPHOBIA (fear of remaining single)!
HS has got SINOPHOBIA (far of China and Chinese people)!
as for myself… i’ve a bit of ARACHNEPHOBIA (fear of spiders)… but don’t get yr hopes up too high. :D i’ve almost about overcome it ever since i forced myself to build a gigantic clay blackwidow complete with internal organs for bio project. and slept with the spider in my rm till i handed in the project… and after all the exposure to monstrously huge spiders in SC…
i can’t stand pple with HYPENGYOPHOBIA (fear of responsibility)
and i think all gangsters have got OPHTHALMOPHOBIA (fear of being stared at).
this -> LEVOPHOBIA (fear of objects on the left side of the body) is the most ridiculous phobia i’ve heard of…
and harry potter has got PHOBOPHOBIA (fear of fear itself ) - - - very wise indeed.
The Healthcenter Info
From a psychoanalytic point of view, phobias are the specific manifestations of an underlying anxiety neurosis. This is a way of saying that the roots of irrational fears reside in unresolved emotional conflicts. A fear situation or object is said to be an externalization of either an attitude or a fear that is held at an unconscious level.
Simply put, let’s use HS’s sinophobia as an example:
HS has a low opinion of all China pple in general and has a strong tendency to avoid/hate/ridicule them. He represses some or all of his awareness of this tendency because it goes against his superego, ie. his moral self, which is both decent and kind (everyone -> puke please…) However, the ego defense mechanism called projection is at work. Projection is characterised by a tendency to perceive the outer world in terms of repressed, or blocked attitudes
Therefore, he tends to fear China pple because at some secret level of his personality he wishes to be from China.
From the behaviouristic point of view, irrational fears are conditioned emotional reactions. A classical experiment with a child known in psychological literature as Albert provides a basic example. But here, we shall use HS as the example again. (somehow, pple will rem things better if it happens to someone they know)
HS as a child, could have been exposed to numerous pple laughing/commenting that he looks like he’s from China, to be specific, maybe the southern part of China. (or maybe, his babysitter was from China) Then, he had no fear of the China pple, but then, he received a shock in the presence of the China-pple (representing the ‘gong’ as in Albert’s case) and HS would cry… Upon repeated contact with the China pple (or with relatives saying that he was Cheena-looking), he would cry more and try to avoid the China pple. Thus he acquired a conditioned fear of China-pple through association with the shock (watever that might be).
hmmm and i realised i have some social phobia… gotta work on overcoming that!!!
