Shot in her own home!

[BrianSoddingBoru4]

Pretty sure that's 'phobia'.  But what of it?  Even if it's out of control and completely irrational, a phobia is still a real fear.

I've mentioned this before:  I'm terrified of horses.  There's no reason for it - I've never been bitten by a horse, never been kicked by a horse, never fallen off a horse (because I've never been on one).  A horse in my field of vision makes me edgy, even if it's a half mile away in a field on the other side of a fence.  If there's nothing between me and a horse, I get cold sweats and shortness of breath.  I feel about horses precisely the way an arachnophobe feels about spiders or acrophobe feels about heights.  The fact that I know it's an irrational fear, all out of proportion to the danger posed by horses, doesn't make the fear any less real.

I imagine it's the same with cops.

Boru

Irrational fears are in the brain, and a problem for the person having them. Those poor horses don't care about you.

All fears are in the brain.  That's where emotions come from.

And horses do care about me.  They're plotting my demise.  I can feel it.

Boru