Murophobia, musophobia, or suriphobia is known as having a fear of mice. Like all sufferers of a phobia, one who suffers from murophobia would probably do the following: upon seeing a mouse, the sufferer's heart rate would quicken, and his/her palms would begin to sweat. Basically, they would become *surprise* scared. Sometimes the reactions are somewhat lethal, sometimes somewhat gentle. What triggers a phobia? Perhaps a traumatizing happening as a child. (e.g. "The Secret of NIMH" scared you ¬_¬;;)
Though there are a few ways to treat a phobia. One form of treatment is called flooding, where the person is immersed in the fear reflex until the fear itself fades away. Some phobic reactions are so strong that flooding must be done by the perosn's imagination, not actually "using" the phobia. (e.g. dropping a mouse on you)
Then there's modeling, where the person is to watch people (the "models") be faced with the phobic stimulus, and the models react to the stimlulus with relaxation instead of fear.
More phobias connected with Iron Mouse:
Telephonophobia * Fear of telephones
Xanthophobia * Fear of the color yellow or the word yellow
Rhabdophobia * Fear of being severely punished or beaten by a (Spiral Moon Heart ^^)rod, or of being severely criticized. Also fear of magic (wand).
Information was found in The Phobia List!
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