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<blockquote data-quote="Dannyalcatraz" data-source="post: 5659287" data-attributes="member: 19675">Re: fear of atomic explosions.You have to understand what a phobia is- it isn't just a fear of something, it's an irrational fear of something.&nbsp; That what you fear may be truly fear inducing my seem, at face value, rational, but if you take extreme measures to deal with your fears, if that fear rules your life (or some aspect of it), then you start entering the neurosis/phobia realm.For instance, it is rational to fear heights.&nbsp; My phobia of heights, however, caused me to nearly kill someone AND have a 5 minute blackout in the process.Someone who is phobic about atomic explosions may well believe that nuclear war is 30 minutes away, all day, every day, and may move away from a city that would be a likely target; refuse to take job offers in such cities, or may invest their life's savings building a state of the art bomb shelter under the double-wide they live in in the backwoods of Arkansas.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dannyalcatraz, post: 5659287, member: 19675"] Re: fear of atomic explosions. You have to understand what a phobia is- it isn't just a fear of something, it's an [I]irrational[/I] fear of something. That what you fear may be truly fear inducing my seem, at face value, rational, but if you take extreme measures to deal with your fears, if that fear rules your life (or some aspect of it), then you start entering the neurosis/phobia realm. For instance, it is rational to fear heights. My phobia of heights, however, caused me to nearly kill someone AND have a 5 minute blackout in the process. Someone who is phobic about atomic explosions may well believe that nuclear war is 30 minutes away, all day, every day, and may move away from a city that would be a likely target; refuse to take job offers in such cities, or may invest their life's savings building a state of the art bomb shelter under the double-wide they live in in the backwoods of Arkansas. [/QUOTE]

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