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I picked up a mental weirdness from the internet and now can't get rid of it: Trypophobia. I never experienced anything like it until Trypophobia was trending a few years back.

https://my.clevelandclinic.org/health/diseases/21834-trypoph...




It was that awful seed pod boob photoshop image that did it to you too, wasn't it?


Awful doesn't even begin to describe those images. There's a another phobia transmitted by the internet, but I'm immune to it: Thalassophobia. There's even a reddit group dedicated to it:

https://old.reddit.com/r/thalassophobia/

There's a group allegedly devoted to trypophobia. I say allegedly because I refuse to click on the link:

https://old.reddit.com/r/trypophobia/


It is uncomfortable to swim in deep opaque water.


Oh my god! Same for me! I didn't know this is a thing that happens!




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