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Record 1,  Textual support,  English

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

An abnormal, excessive, and persistent fear of pleasure.  2, record 1, English, - hedonophobia

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 OBS

Sufferers with this most puritanical of phobias typically feel guilty about experiencing pleasure even though they usually realize rationally there is nothing at all wrong with taking pleasure. Their guilt usually arises from the fact that they are participating in a pleasurable activity while others around them or in the world at large are experiencing nothing but illness, grief, economic hardship and other painful problems. Their guilt may also arise from the belief that life is best lived ascetically (similar to the idea that, for a medicine to do good, it must taste bad).  2, record 1, English, - hedonophobia

Record 1,  Textual support,  French

Record number: 1, Textual support number: 1 DEF

Crainte excessive du plaisir.  2, record 1, French, - h%C3%A9donophobie

Record 1,  Textual support,  Spanish