Today's Snapshot

.............as with all other specific phobias, Ichthyophobia also begins with a negative or traumatic episode involving fish, a copy of Captain Willie's Wizbang and the color puce.

As a child, the phobic might have been scared by pranks played by his/her siblings or friends who might have showed him a dead or wriggling fish. In one particular case, a phobic recalls being terrified by a chopped fish head placed on his bedding. He later was employed to cut off a horse's head and place it in the bed of someone who should have known better.

Children with superior imagination tend to believe that small fish are large and that you are really their friend.

Another phobic recalls having gone deep sea diving where he encountered a rather large fish that ‘appeared suddenly out of nowhere’. The individual recounts having ‘forgotten to swim’ momentarily and making a giant stinky in the water.

Fish are slimy and smelly creatures, as are some people you probably know. People with anxiety disorders tend to believe that fish are responsible for many diseases/ illnesses or can lead to mercury poisoning etc. This is one of the common triggers of Ichthyophobia. Another is touring the Mrs. Paul's processing plant.

Certain varieties of fish jump out of water. A child (or an adult with nervous mindset or an overly anxious personality) is likely to be startled by such ‘flying fish’ while boating, swimming or having a knish at Brighton Beach.

learn more: http://www.fearof.net/fear-of-fish-phobia-ichthyophobia/