Fear of Vegetable!!!
I have heard of Arachnophobia and and Claustrophobia and a million other kinds of reasonable and unreasonable phobia..but the most unusual of all is this report where a woman was diagnosed with the fear of vegetables!!! Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old student from Portsmouth, suffers from lachanophobia, a fear of vegetables.
The mere sight of vegetables in her or her neighbor's plate can set her panic button on and she will get all sweaty and nervous! Due to this her diet comprises only of meat, potatoes, cereals and sometimes an apple. She finds it very difficult to go to the market to even buy necessities as the vegetables are usually near the entrance! Now, if only I had know about this phobia when I was a child, I could have easily gotten away from eating all those peas and carrots!!!!
This uncanny fear affects a few thousand in Britain. Vivki Larrieux is determined to get over her phobia through treatments that include "psychological re-programming" to control the anxious response to seeing vegetables. Lets just hope she gets better and that our kids dont come across this article. If they do, rest assured lachanphobia will soon become the most widely mis-used term at the dining table!! Cant blame them, as I said I would have done the same!!!
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