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A weird concept

It struck me today that it is actually possible to have phobophobia... Which is actually a phobia of having phobias. This will include such phobias as the fear of having phobias, the fear of the fear of having phobias, and inevitably the fear of the fear of the fear of having phobias.. Which brings me to my next point. The fear of having a fear of having a fear of having a fear of phobias.. If this happens, which im sure it does in texas somewhere, does the person then constantly loudly urinate/deficate/ejaculate on themselves through sheer confusion? Never mind what they're scared of?

This is a genuine question.

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I don't know myself! Haha, both if possible

Maybe it's this? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paradox

I doubt you can go past phobophobia (which does actually exist BTW). Being a phobia itself, fear of phobophobia would be included in phobophobia.

Would it? :S

I think it would, because phobophobia is the fear of phobias and so is a phobia itself, so to be afraid of it would be to be afraid of a phobia, and so would be phobophobia. Right?

Good question though, and got me thinking.

Yeah its weird huh :) I was thinking about somehow putting it into a stand up routine.. Any ideas?

So its possible to have phobophobia.. But then in having this, you would immediately be in fear because you have a phobia!

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