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[From Jonathan C.]

Something interesting happened this afternoon to me. I was treating one of my patients today, we'll call him... Bruce. Bruce is about as average of a man as can be, except for his his criminal history. Nothing out of the ordinary, nothing that would mark him as anything remarkable on paper.

That is, he was uninteresting until we discovered a little quirk in his personality.

Helminthophobia.

Do look it up. I won't go into how this was discovered, but it's absolutely fascinating how a man can be reduced to tears, the stink of fear, a shaking that doesn't abate.

It makes me wonder what other fears people have lurking just beneath the surface of the put-together facade they parade around in daily.