Word: phobias
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...enough by friends,” he says ruefully. “I’m damned if I do, I’m damned if I don’t. Boats take too long, planes I hate.” Yet Hunt has made peace with his flying phobia. “I’m 40 years old,” he says. “I don’t plan on overcoming it anytime soon...
Fear of snakes, for instance, is the most common human phobia, and it makes good evolutionary sense for it to be instinctive. Learning to fear snakes the hard way would be dangerous. Yet experiments with monkeys reveal that their fear of snakes (and probably ours) must still be acquired by watching another individual react with fear to a snake. It turns out that it is easy to teach monkeys to fear snakes but very difficult to teach them to fear flowers. What we inherit is not a fear of snakes but a predisposition to learn a fear of snakes...
...become a postman for a final three minutes with "Wild Cat." She didn't deliver, either. Deciding that speed dating is nothing more than a novel way to offload three minutes of verbal garbage, I move on to salsa dancing. But after a succession of mute partners with a phobia for physical contact, only a gray-haired fiftysomething called Katrina manages to loosen my collar a little. Katrina's friskiness doesn't make up for the fact that I have not received a single calling card. So I consult in-house flirting guru Peta Heskell. "Some men relentlessly assault themselves...
...Like You?" on the National Institute of Mental Health's site ("You get tired easily, yet have trouble sleeping" was one statement that I found particularly relevant), I learned that I may also suffer from generalized anxiety disorder. What don't I have? I'm probably free of social phobia. Sweating and shaking when others look my way doesn't sound like me--though this can depend on who those others...
...Homophobia is not something that even counts as a phobia,” he said...