Why do people have such weird phobias?
3 August 2010
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Helper asked:
I was watching some youtube videos of people that had phobias of pickles, peaches, cottonballs, and even balloons. So I began to wonder, why do people have such strange phobias? The people all said that they hated the texture and the look of the things they feared.
I was watching some youtube videos of people that had phobias of pickles, peaches, cottonballs, and even balloons. So I began to wonder, why do people have such strange phobias? The people all said that they hated the texture and the look of the things they feared.
I can understand arachnophobia or fear of snakes or something, but why do people have such strange fears?
Bad experiences from before, you don’t realise the associations people make in their minds, like a certain song that make someone cry, unless you’re that person, you won’t know how their mind works. Sometimes a smell, texture, appearance, colour can all illicit negative response. Yes, the fears may seem unreasonable to most people, even the people with the phobias themselves. Not everything we do makes sense. They just need some extra care and patience to help them deal with the issues they carry with them. I feel sorry for people who are so frightened that they can’t live a comfortable life.
It’s something that just happens. Those people can’t really help it
Phobias themselves are wierd things i mean why are girls scared of rats or planes or spiders ? We dont know why we are we jjust are. If you see the peach as a phobia you would probabley be scared of most fruit as you would probabley think when they grew they could of been poisoned or something like that =] . lol if that makes sense =] x
These are actually based on learning theories, or specifically, these phobias are classically conditioned. If you go on the internet and research this, it’ll probably answer your question. But I guess I can short it up for you. If you combine a stimulus (anything really: things, objects, places, etc.) that provokes an automatic fear response with an unconditioned stimulus (the pickle in this case), it produces the same response (fear) when it either precedes or occurs simultaneously with the original stimulus. Again, look up classical conditioning. Google it.
Bet mines the weirdest! I’m afraid of penguins.
I’ve wondered about that too–at first I thought they were faking it, but it’s pretty consistent.
My guess is that they had an experience early in life that was traumatic, and somehow got associated with the object.
On the other hand, altough I’m not afraid of any inanimate objects, I really hate touching certain things. Like rough cardboard, wooden spoons, etc. My aunt can’t stand to touch velvet. I’m sure you know lots of stories about that.
I think it’s some kind of inherent hypersensitivity.
because people are wierd
my sister is terrified of cotton balls.
she doesnt like the texture.
she says that when she squeezes them, she feels like shes sinking.
yea i know weird right?
im scared of fleece. like that cotton stuff.
i just get the chills wheni even think about it.
the texture just makes me want to puke.
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