Thank you, Simon, for the interesting post.
I was incidentially searching for info on hypoth.

Caro.
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Hi Rosemary, Thoughts, persistent, suicide; of: manc Mind, delusions, vindictive could be another important one to look up. Also, if his main goal is a "surprise suicide", why sharing his plans in the first place? Isn't he taking pleasure in the helplessness of others about it? Could it be...

Joy, That was quite an interesting post. "The emphasis was always on a mysterious character, dressed up to hide the true intentions". If a child senses this, and this gives rise to feelings of mistrust, would the rubric be "suspicious" in your opinion? Caro --- Joy Lucas wrote: t...

No. Not really. I've spontaneously found clowns annoying. Not my kind of humour at all. The fact that someone doesn't like clowns doesn't imply childhood trauma. It can also be a matter of preferences. But, hey, lots of people and kids like clowns, or else they wouldn't get hired. Sorry that you've ...

Not even a firefly flicker. He's one of those people who consider homeopathy to be a threat AND a fictional concept altogether (if it's fictional how could it be threatening, and vice-versa????). He was my pediatrician ("I'm a doctor", "I know best" personality syndrome). Not wor...

Hi Tom, Your story reminds me of the time a(nother) family was turned away from homeopathy thanks to the ignorance of those who have a certain amount of power in the community. The parents had taken their toddler to the homeopath, who prescribed Ars. To keep things "on the safe side", they...

Dear Shannon: Absolutely. I don't know about the clown rubric... well, if it's the only fear of the child, then, sure it's important (unless he saw that movie "It", or the poster of the movie... who knows; I'd expect any child to be terrified of clowns after catching a glimpse of the DVD b...

Now that you mention it... my first encounter with the "real life" mickey mouse was petty scary. I could not get it into my head that that WAS the guy from the cartoons... and refused to hug him. Modern-day marketing-induced psychology would say that I was a 'difficult" child (especia...

Oh, Yhank you so much. your words bring relief to my soul:-) "you LEARN that they are supposed to be funny" Exactly! Same principle as in pre-recorded laughs:"you should laugh here"! And, YES, Disney cartoons are seriously weird... especially the fact that they are ducks or mice ...

Clowns are scary! How would that be a symptom?:-) No, but seriously, I remember disliking clowns because I couldn't see their real faces nor bodies nor hair... The fact that something so fake and grotesque was in charge of making us children laugh made me very uneasy. I felt a deep mistrust towards ...