Of the three, I'd opt for Pamela Anderson! Panic Attacks and Eisoptrophobia you can keep.
Oh sorry, have I lost you? All Eisoptrophobia means is the fear of seeing yourself in the mirror.
Can you believe this with Pamela Anderson? The poor woman suffers from it, apparently.
Now me, well, all I can say is that every time I have to look in the mirror and trim my beard, it's a good thing I have a strong stomach.
All joking apart, though, it must be a frightful affliction.
It's also known as Catoptrophobia and can cause people to have Panic Attacks, bouts of Anxiety and fear in general.
There are various reasons.
One is that someone can be afraid that by looking into a mirror they'll summon the supernatural.
Another is that they're being watched through the mirror.
The best treatment is drug-free, and is either Hypnotherapy or Cognitive Behavioral Therapy.
We tend to snigger behind our hands at phobias of this sort, but of course they're no laughing matter.
True, the fears are irrational, but very real to the sufferers.
In a broader sense, it may seem that fear is very undesirable.
A wretched emotion that we could well do without.
Oh, I suppose it's fun to be all cosy and warm on a winter's evening when you're in front of the television and being scared witless by some ghost/horror film.
Kids glean a perverted sense of fun out of it, but generally speaking, I can think of more pleasant emotions.
The only problem is that you can't do without it.
It's an extremely important emotion.
It keeps us from doing stupid and dangerous things, like walking into traffic, or drinking poison just to see what it tastes like.
Animals learn fast, but then they have other instincts.
Direct fear is if someone points a gun at you and announces he's going to kill you.
Obviously, that's an immediate and intense danger.
Then there are the indirect, the assumptive dangers if you will, like watching a bridge collapse on television.
Immediately, you think 'thank the Lord I wasn't on that.
' Nine out of ten people, though, will forget the images.
All part of the ten o'clock news.
But it's quite possible that one person won't forget.
It could stick in their minds so that the next time they're faced with a bridge, they're not at all sure they want to cross it.
At the moment, there's a lot of research and experimentation being done at Emory University on the subject of fear, using mice as test subjects.
As an example, there's some talk about assuming a little boy is bitten by a dog.
They're hoping to reach the stage where they can stop the trauma following the bite, so that the child no longer fears dogs.
Personally, I don't agree with this.
The point is that his fear will keep him from being bitten again.
If that fear's removed, then there's nothing to stop him walking up to another 'nice doggie,' and having a further chunk taken out of him.
I also read where someone, (not from Emory), suggested you could do the same thing to soldiers, so that they'd be absolutely fearless.
This is insane.
A group of men would simply charge a machine gun post head on, without even considering a flanking movement, and be mown down.
Learn about fear, yes absolutely, both conditioned and non-conditioned.
The more knowledge we have, the better.
But leave the fear factor where it is.
It's part of our make up for a very good reason