Tetraphobia Essay

There’s a monster under your bed, and there are ghosts in the attic. The Bogey man is in your closet and ravens await your death so they can pick from your rotting flesh. Flowers are ready to strangle you, as pickles prepare to choke you in the night. It’s almost funny to hear of people who actually fear flowers and pickles. But these people have real legit fears of even the nicest of things. Although these fears are horrible, and should not be feared; I think the more we know about them, the more we can be prepared. There must be a deeper meaning of these weird phobias. Is it nature? Or inherited traits of the human body? Maybe they come from past experiences? Even as these fears are quite interesting, but unwanted, I want to know why people acquire these ridiculous fears and how we could stop them.

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I went from fear of flowers to practical mathematics, that’s crazy, but if I were afraid of a number I guess I wouldn’t have to have 19 years of math class. Tetraphobia has “Various unique and specific troubling experiences are to blame for the disorder. Tetraphobia may be the result of superstitious parenting or lack of parenting altogether. Still, like other phobias and psychological disorders, it may be concomitant with bipolar disorder(“Tetraphobia” 2015). I read this and thought about how all the causes seemed to be intriguingly different. People who feared flowers, may have had allergies; or if someone feared cheese, they may have been in a traumatic event. People with Tetraphobia, may have had parent issues that would allow them to fear numbers. But as for the symptoms it’s basically like any fear, these symptoms copy someone who would quiver over flowers perhaps. This last fear made me question the world we live in now that our children can fear something like a