Coulrophobia
If you suffer from coulrophobia, DO NOT watch this video.
Here is the video of that woman who suffers from coulrophobia.
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I had coulrophobia when I was at the carnival at age 8 once, I punched the puppet clown in the gut and ran… aww… Kobe so cute! he was looking at ur plant on the left =D
Now see…That was more of a definition using etymology…few people know that word – but now they do!
That woman must have had SOME freaky or frightening experience in her past…why can’t her therapist just ask about that and see what they might find, rather than frightening her by showing her pictures that upset her as a first step?
ha ha said the clown
pictures/Manfred just some of the people I know are clowns
HOLY BULL…
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lets race[RaCe]:-)(-:[run] 
I thought you meant Karl Rove phobia. That guy is such a clown!
what ever happened to the teachers pet????
I saw the teacher’s pet in the video. Kobe was trying to eat the potted plant.
now i know why i always go to A&W, KFC or Wendys other than Macdonalds , b/c i am afraid of the CLOWNs.
jereld
thanks Marina
This could be why people are afraid of CLOWNS
Is there a word for fear of Republicans?
Or is that the same as the fear of clowns?
Gwillikers
<a href=”http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=B_BPcDOjJCc” check his out
Maybe some day I’ll do it righ the firs time check his out
that one failed I pasted the address now it doesn’t come up try this one
OMG! Bad clown, NO BALLOON FOR YOU!
just clowning! very sad indeed…
no
I never did like clowns, never understood them. I’m okay with Ronald McDonald, but that Burger King creeps me out. Kill the Burger King!
Oh, and Batman was awesome. YOU HEAR ME?! …it was awesome…
(Okay, maybe not that awesome, but definetly worth watching)
Not a fan as it goes as I do find them quite scary. Its more old dolls that to my head in. Once doing a viewing of a property, the owner had a vast collection of clown like dolls all over the house, all beedy eyed looking at me, I could tell some of them moved about too!!
– surreal but think clowns get my vote as they do make many others laugh and get happy inspite of what I think 
Clowns are really clever
My God daughter, Martha, once had a clown at her b-day party. He was very scary and most of her friends cried a bit to his strange acts. Freaky
…thinking about it, Jack Nicolson has much to do with my fear of clowns in some way as with Stephen King. Actually made to watch, right in front of the TV, The Shining at the age of nine by my baby sitter as they canoodled on the sofa. It was the begining of a very strange life for me……
also scared of a Ghost, but not of the spiritual kind!
Well scared of heights too, have tried to over come this phobia with tandum drops on several occasions but ney, like my feet on the ground thanking you.
Big fear of drowning which isnt good for when I scuba, just remember to breathe, slowly…..just talk to the fishes, its all good!!!
Have no problems with spiders anymore as handled them when ever I can. Down under in the Queensland State, I visted the Daintree Forest, had the amazing opportunity to handle some rather hairy bird eating spiders. Plus a variety of other insects and so on. Just the Python at the foot of my sleeping bag one morning was a shock to the system as it curled around my legs for comfort.
…just leaves fear of flying, have done so many flights its just gotta be a matter of time, once airborn, calm as you like, no worries, what was all the fuss about, zanax!
Be Brave
I have never been afraid of clowns. If I were afraid of clowns then it sure make going to work difficult… as you may have guessed, I am actually a clown. Balloon twisting, magic, juggling the whole nine yards and I’m also 6′6″.
There have been times when I’ve met coulrophobics before but the one constant I’ve noticed about them is that they are almost always adults or teenagers who have learned this fear from characters like Pennywise from It or the Joker from Batman. The only children I meet who are afraid of me, are the children so young they are afraid of any adult who are not his or her parents.
There are so many people out there with coulrophobia that most don’t see it for what it really is: An irrational fear!
Clowns aren’t dangerous, clowns aren’t radioactive, clowns aren’t poisonous, clowns don’t exploded (although I’ve had a number of balloon animals burst on me). Clowns exists for one reason: to make children happy and to make people laugh.
I’m sorry if I’ve gotten carried away but I’m tired of people acting like it’s normal and sensible to be afraid of clowns and all but trying to teach this irrational fear to there children. Well I’ll sign off now before I get carried away. I’m late for juggling practice anyway.
i felt so sorry for that lady…….poor woman…..
reminded me of when i say a TV program about Flying….fear of Flying…..tehy had people….in training planes…..to Act out a flying …..airport…ect……pooor sods…where in fear…..BUt its great that they can Try to Control there fear…..
…seen videos..of kids Not likeing to see…..santa….it must be to do ….with the Suits? they put on ….and the acting?
i love seeing all teh acting….and Skill…..that a clown is….its brilliant art…
I don’t know anyone with coulrophobia but I do know some clowns and I mean some real BOZO’s!!
I am. Don’t know why. If I don’t know who the clown really is, I stay the hell away from them. I don’t even like my daughter going near them.
Marina, where does the phrase “like the dickens” come from? For example, to say someone is “running like the dickens.”
People who run like the dickens are just chickens.
No clowning around
, I don’t know anyone with coulrophobia, but I know several people in their 30s that are deathly afraid of computers. They are not against technology or computers as such, but they have never operated one, don’t use ATMs, etc.
My wife is afraid of frogs.
I was going to make a joke, but I’ll restrain myself to protect
defend the guilty… you’all knoaw whaaattt ahh mean?
Is that what you kids are calling it these days?
lol, my parents, sisters and i are clowns, but we are a bit of a different type of clown, we use smaller shapes, and lighter make-up on our faces. you would be suprised how much of a difference that can make for people close up. circus clowns use larger and darker shapes to help be seen from the audience far away, thus when you get close it can be quiet intimidating. most people that are afraid of clowns are people that had some kind of bad experience with them, by either seeing a movie or face to face in person. some say they are afraid and they have never really seen one, so they are just saying it. their are rules of a sort for clowns but not many people know that, so they think they can just slap on some make-up and dance around being stupid, which works in a small way but they can easily do something that are in the shouldnt be done catigory and then put people off of clowns for many years, its sad and frustrating. not everyone is trained and yet they tarnish the name and tradition of clowning, i hope people meet the good clowns.
Most women wear clown suits? most wear some kind of makeup?
not sure what your getting at? are you trying to say that girls are clowns??
by you description about clowns, don,t most woman paint there faces with makeup? In effect making them kind of clownish? Out of the box thinking. just an observation.
oh, sorry i meant that we use the same types of make-up that other clowns use, we just work hard to make the faces of our charaters as friendly as possible. it has helped and some people that said that they were afraid of clowns werent afraid of us in clown because it wasnt what you might consider the typical clown look. is that a better discription?
Whitehawk: Thanks for the story
Actually, some boys and men have a fear of beautiful women, or women in general. It’s called venustraphobia or caligynephobia.
Interesting comparison
Not that women are clown-like, but the whole fear of being rejected,
–what am I going to do,
–I’ll sound stupid
–she’ll never like me
–pounding heart
–mind going blank
phenomena that some guys have is enough to stand in the way of relationships and causes some men to be doormats.
Fortunately, people can get over phobias easy to live full lives…WITHOUT psychotropic meds
You are the cutest on youtube.
Heres a fun word, try SPLUNGE, as far as I know its origin started in a skit on Monty Python’s Flying Circus.
isn’t a bit sadistic to expose that woman to clowns?
Not if it gets her over her irrational fears?
Tanathos: Good question
My response has 2 parts.
(1) It is “justified” if you think about it as a voluntary act that the woman consented to. Also, the woman intended to see clowns in the future, and the only way to get there is to expose her to clowns.
(2) That being said, the process shown on the video varies considerably depending on who does it
The procedure is called “Exposure” or “Systematic Desensitization”, where the person is slowly exposed to more and more evokative stimuli until they are able to handle being around things that are important to them…aka, social contact, driving, or clowns in this case.
Personally, if I were the therapist, I would have tried to expose her to the clown more slowly so as not to flood her out. This procedure elicited a strong reaction, so I would have asked her to do smaller steps. For instance, I would have let her slowly see the clown through a window first, then just open the door to see him, then I’d invite her to go just inside the door in a room where the clown’s back is turned, etc., until she was willing to come in contact with an active clown. Finally, I would be sure that the clown was doing something she enjoyed in that room. That way, it would be rewarding to be in the room
, instead of merely becoming “minimally tolerable,” as they did here.
Marina: I liked your picture on the beach…it looked like you were having a good time
I wonder if you were on a cruise.
Thanks again, Beautiful!!