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Crinklebum | 13:30 Fri 10th Nov 2006 | Science
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Does anybody know the scientific name for fear of crustaceans, if there is one?
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Apparently 'kabourophobia' is the fear of crabs.
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Apart from calling yourself a freak, how would you correctly name the phobia of all crustaceans?

I know. It's off the wall isn't it?
Entomophobia is the fear of arthropods (the phylum crutaceans belong to) but you would also need to fear spiders and insects to qualify.
If it's of any consellation, Crinklebum, I have exactly the same phobia (unless they're edibly on my plate)...
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I can't even look at them. Not even pictures of them! We live on the coast too. How unfortunate!
I have a phobia of crabs! Whenever I tell anyone they snigger and say something like "Me too. I had a nasty dose of them when I was 18...". Hilarious. I was ok until I was about seven and then I'm not sure whether it was standing on a load of dead ones in the sea or my grandad tapping me on the shoulder with a dismembered claw that psycologically damaged me!

Do you remember that Saturday night program with Davina McCall & Darren Day about people doing scary things? A girl on it had a fear of crabs and was locked in a cubicle with loads of them to try to cure her. I can't remember if it worked or not!

I know that this does not answer your question in any way, but I just wanted to let you know that you aren't alone!
I have never met anyone else that had a phobia of crabs, i have never even been able to find a name for it! I have had this phobia since as long as i can remember and have no idea how i got it. I can't even bare to see a leg, or a piece of a sell, look at a pic or see it on TV. I recently moved to Australia, and I am so uneasy when i go to the beach, which is rare because i am afraid of the small sand crabs. I rerfuse to go to a seafood resturant or swimming when there is debrie in the water at the off chance it would be some part of a crab. it is restricting so much in my life as to what i would love to do. everyone thinks it is really stupid and they laugh at me. I am looking into hypnosis to hopefully try and get over this. it is nice to know that somoene else out there is afraid too!
I have exactly the same phobia, and no one seems to understand it at all. I also have one other weird phobia which I haven't really told anyone about because it's so pathetic - opening and closing curtains. I wonder what that says about my psychological state. But yes, crabs take the biscuit as it were, and I find it really difficult to go to beaches in case I tread on a bit of one or see one appearing from a hole in the ground in front of me. It's a shame, because - aside from the possibility of crabs - I adore swimming in the sea!
I have been phobic of crabs since early years - I think I was scared by one in the sea and I remember running screaming from the sea. Elder brother's teasing didn't help.

Not sure I was ever actually scared of them in the sense that I felt they could do me harm, it was more the horrible feeling I got when being surprised by one, or even a body part. Very odd.

However now over 40 years later I have become relatively desensitised and could handle a dead crab. possible even a small live one. I take a lot of pleasure in walking & jogging on beaches as long as I am wearing shoes, and even visit the sea occasionally as long as I am fully clothed in a wetsuit with boots - definitely something to do with standing on one in my bare feet then!

Incidentally it has only ever been the 'saucer shaped' crabs that give me the heeby-jeebies, hermit crabs don't have the same effect. Not too worried by spiders either, which are similar shapes.

Do I want 'treatment'? Not really, I am very sure that being locked in a room containing hundreds of the things or carrying one in my hand would be the stuff of nightmares until the day I died.

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