March 3, 2017
"TIL Some people are actually afraid of being too happy because they think something tragic is going to happen soon. This is known as Cherophobia."
A Reddit post — linking to the Wikipedia "Aversion to happiness" article — that gets the predictable but great comment "I thought Cherophobia was the fear of life after love" and perfect follow-on comments to drive home the joke.
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Cherophobia. Better than Cheeriophobia.
Preemptive fear of rejection is the disease to which Protestant Reformed Christianity is the cure.
Just wait until direct dopamine injection becomes the drug of choice.
You will be afraid of happiness. Many people will starve to death without auto feeding. Combined with better than life virtual reality we are not going to need to worry about skynet wiping us out. We will take care of that ourselves.
They're called stoics.
Ah the golden ring of happiness. I have to agree with Edith Wharton on happiness when she wrote this:
“There are lots of ways of being miserable, but there’s only one way of being comfortable, and that is to stop running round after happiness. If you make up your mind not to be happy there’s no reason why you shouldn’t have a fairly good time.”
Cherophobia is what Sonny developed when she started divorce proceedings.
Before a transgender makeover, this condition was known as gayophobia, as in fear of merry and gay, or lest the yuletide be gay. Another victim of semantic corruption.
Cherochernobylphobia is the fear that any happiness will be followed by a nuclear disaster.
I am Laslo.
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