What’s more disturbing--her fear or that she’d humiliate herself on national television? Sorry I’m insensitive, but… if you can eat it, you shouldn’t be afraid of it!

A la Clockwork Orange: pry her eyelids open and force her to watch hours upon hours of Veggie Tales

I’ve read and heard about such strange phobias.  Sometimes they are tied to sexual, emotional, or physical abuse that the person has experienced in childhood.  Sometimes those who are abused will develop a fear based on certain smells, sights, sounds, or objects that were nearby during the incident.  Pardon the bluntness, but the pickle seems an obvious visual similarity to certain anatomy.  For this girl, the similarity could be enough to cause such a reaction. 

Others associations are less obvious, such as a woman who had a horrible fear of birds.  It was discovered through counseling that around the same time period in her childhood that she was sexually abused, she also had a frightening experience with a bird.  Emotionally, she associated the two fears, but could publicly own up to only the birds and suppressed the abuse--thus her fear of birds grew out of control.

I haven’t any idea what pickle girl was trying to achieve by going on such a ridiculous TV show, but I feel such pain for her considering what she might have been through as a young girl to cause such a reaction in her now.  I don’t think she was acting.

I can understand the pickle problem through the prior sexual assault lens, but how do you explain the other chick wit h the mustard fear?

Jimmjy Kimmel played this the other night. this vid is all over the internet. I don’t understand this chick at all and how should could fear pickles. paid actress?

IF this is true… God bless her. and if not God bless them little pickles.