Some Wacky Facties

• Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is the fear of long words.
  
• The majority of women count snakes as their biggest fear. For men, it's being buried alive.
  
• Only 11% of people who admit to having a phobia have actually sort professional help.
  
• In a laboratory study, rats whose amygdalas had been damaged showed no fear when in the presence of a cat.
  
• The term for someone experiencing a heart attack brought on by intense fear IE: getting scared to death is 'The Baskerville Effect.'
  
• According to Robert Leahy, president of the International Association for Cognitive Psychotherapy, the average child today, has the same level of anxiety as the average psychiatric patient in the 1950s.
  
• US teenagers were surveyed about their fears and the top ten in order were: terrorist attacks, spiders, death, being a failure, war, heights, criminal or gang violence, being alone, the future, and nuclear war.
  
• According to Qigong Energy Healing, fear is stored in the kidneys.