Unusual Eating Phobias

Adolphe Millot illustration of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables from Nouveau Larousse Illustre, (1898) fruits and vegetables

Getting annoyed at someone when we listen to them eating or breathing is called Misophonia, and it’s an actual neurological disorder.

Here are some more strangely specific fears:

  • Air swallowing – Aerophobia
  • Alcohol– Methyphobia or Potophobia
  • Chopsticks – Consecotaleophobia
  • Cooking – Mageirocophobia
  • Crystals or glass– Crystallophobia
  • Dampness, moisture or liquids – Hygrophobia
  • Dining or dinner conversations – Deipnophobia
  • Eating or swallowing – Phagophobia
  • Eating or food – Sitophobia or Sitiophobia
  • Eating or swallowing or of being eaten – Phagophobia
  • Food – Cibophobia
  • Garlic – Alliumphobia
  • Meat – Carnophobia
  • Mushrooms – Mycophobia
  • Sourness – Acerophobia
  • Taste – Geumaphobia or Geumophobia
  • Teeth – Odontophobia
  • Vegetables – Lachanophobia
Adolphe Millot legume et plante potageres [1907-1910] Larousse pour tous, publisher vegetables
Made with Midjourney: cauliflower, waxy colored pencil

Header painting: Adolphe Millot illustration of a wide variety of fruits and vegetables from Nouveau Larousse Illustre, (1898) fruits and vegetables

CONTEMPORARY FICTION SET IN AUSTRALIA AND NEW ZEALAND (2023)

On paper, things look fine. Sam Dennon recently inherited significant wealth from his uncle. As a respected architect, Sam spends his days thinking about the family needs and rich lives of his clients. But privately? Even his enduring love of amateur astronomy is on the wane. Sam has built a sustainable-architecture display home for himself but hasn’t yet moved into it, preferring to sleep in his cocoon of a campervan. Although they never announced it publicly, Sam’s wife and business partner ended their marriage years ago due to lack of intimacy, leaving Sam with the sense he is irreparably broken.

Now his beloved uncle has died. An intensifying fear manifests as health anxiety, with night terrors from a half-remembered early childhood event. To assuage the loneliness, Sam embarks on a Personal Happiness Project:

1. Get a pet dog

2. Find a friend. Just one. Not too intense.

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