Vicki Larrieux, a 22-year-old woman from Portsmouth, England, has a very unusual fear. It’s not clowns or horses or the outdoors. Those are all fairly normal. Vicki is a lachanophobic, which means that she’s afraid of vegetables.
As it turns out, it’s not just an excuse for kids to avoid eating their greens. Vicki, when exposed to vegetables, has all the classic symptoms of a panic attack. Her pulse rate increases, she starts sweating, and she gets anxious and agitated. All because of a few carrots or a couple of stray green peas in her gravy. Her condition is so debilitating that she can’t even go out to dinner and dreads going to the market due to the proximity of all the vegetables.
I wonder if it’s just vegetables, or if she gets nervous around fruit, too. She lives mostly on meat and potatoes, with the occasional apple, but what about something like a tomato? Technically, it’s a fruit. Would she freak out if someone gave her a bottle of ketchup?
Tags: Vicki Larrieux, girl afraid of vegetables, phobias, vegetable phobic, lachanophobia, Portsmouth, England
