skip to main |
skip to sidebar
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer.
Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration.
I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me
and through me. And when it has gone past I
will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where
the fear has gone there will be nothing.
Only I will remain."
Frank Herbert
There is one phobia that is mainly physical disease and not merely a state of mind.
A person who has suffered a certain virus infection that attacks the nervous system cannot swallow. The sight or the sound of water or the attempt to swallow water throws this unfortunate person into a convulsion. The ancient Greeks considered this kind of convulsion to have resulted from a morbid fear of water, and they called the disease hydrophobia--from hydor, "water."
