Paraskevidekatriaphobia
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Paraske.....what's that now? As my son would say! LOL! According to Rich Maloof on MSN.com in the Health & Fitness section, Paraskevidekatriaphobia is the fear of Friday the 13th and every other phobias you can possibly think of! At least he thinks it is!
Then again it's all Greek to me! Ahah, funny I should say that! Rich says that "...just attach a Greek prefix to -phobia and you’re off to the fear factory." Wow, the things you learn!
He also says that fear is in our DNA, it's a defense mechanism and that's a good thing. Being scared let us be more alert to a situation, it makes us more proactive with adrenaline pumping! Otherwise, how else did we exist in the caveman days? A good question indeed!
Have you ever experienced the fear of something you're afraid of, like say, an insect, a really ugly looking bug? You scream a yelp, you keep your eyes on it while reaching for the newspaper or the slippers to swat the heck out of it. And while you're doing all that you stand a mile from it, (practically) while trying to hit the thing from that distance and making weird noises at the same time. By this time the poor insect might just have been more scared of you than you of it! And at the first miss of your swat, ran off into the daylight or night!
Those days are over for me though...well...only the part where I would swat the insect. Now I pick it up quite gingerly and set it outside in the grass. It's life cycle continues without my interferance!
While some people's fear of insect, including my own, depending on what type of insect it is, is pretty common, the most common fear is the fear of animals which is zoophobia. Women are the most likely to be scared of animals according to the article.
[quote]
The five most common phobia are:
1. Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
2. Fear of giving a speech (glossophobia)
3. Fear of heights (acrophobia)
4. Fear of rodents (musophobia)
5. Fear of flying (aviophobia)
[end quote]
I'm sure there will be a lot of movies on tonight that will try to scare the pants off of us. The best way to watch them is with the lights off, my two worst to watch are "The Grudge" and "Birds" the latter that old Hitchcock movie! They give me the jeebies! And I don't scare easily!
I'm attaching a link to the artcle below so you can read in more detail. Mr. Maloof did a great job with this one!
I hope your Friday the 13 is going well!
Link
Then again it's all Greek to me! Ahah, funny I should say that! Rich says that "...just attach a Greek prefix to -phobia and you’re off to the fear factory." Wow, the things you learn!
He also says that fear is in our DNA, it's a defense mechanism and that's a good thing. Being scared let us be more alert to a situation, it makes us more proactive with adrenaline pumping! Otherwise, how else did we exist in the caveman days? A good question indeed!
Have you ever experienced the fear of something you're afraid of, like say, an insect, a really ugly looking bug? You scream a yelp, you keep your eyes on it while reaching for the newspaper or the slippers to swat the heck out of it. And while you're doing all that you stand a mile from it, (practically) while trying to hit the thing from that distance and making weird noises at the same time. By this time the poor insect might just have been more scared of you than you of it! And at the first miss of your swat, ran off into the daylight or night!
Those days are over for me though...well...only the part where I would swat the insect. Now I pick it up quite gingerly and set it outside in the grass. It's life cycle continues without my interferance!
While some people's fear of insect, including my own, depending on what type of insect it is, is pretty common, the most common fear is the fear of animals which is zoophobia. Women are the most likely to be scared of animals according to the article.
[quote]
The five most common phobia are:
1. Fear of snakes (ophidiophobia)
2. Fear of giving a speech (glossophobia)
3. Fear of heights (acrophobia)
4. Fear of rodents (musophobia)
5. Fear of flying (aviophobia)
[end quote]
I'm sure there will be a lot of movies on tonight that will try to scare the pants off of us. The best way to watch them is with the lights off, my two worst to watch are "The Grudge" and "Birds" the latter that old Hitchcock movie! They give me the jeebies! And I don't scare easily!
I'm attaching a link to the artcle below so you can read in more detail. Mr. Maloof did a great job with this one!
I hope your Friday the 13 is going well!
Link
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