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I have no irrational phobias other than fear of landing in a wheelchair, which isn’t completely irrational after all and I still do some dumb stuff on occasion. My wife on the otherhand nearly wrecked her Suburban when a spider ran across the inside of the windshield. Like two tires off the road and in the ditch and about to be 4 before I grabbed the wheel. She loses any higher order processing if she sees one anywhere in the house (and she can see them from what seems like 50ft away) and I have to immediately get it. She also is very bad with heights… shaky legs and paralysis sort of thing.
I used to be a bit frustrated with it all until oddly enough when I was gripped by the grief of my fathers passing. I had never experienced anything like it, and the absolutely dominating power of the emotion and heaving sobs that would come over me without warning for quite some time humbled me into the realization thatthere are things beyond our rational control.