The Aviator

[stacer]

So I just went to see this movie. Not intentionally--we meant to go see National Treasure, and I mistakenly took my new roommate to the wrong theater.   But I must say that Leo did a better job than I expected, so I don't begrudge the Golden Globe he just won. And what's-her-name playing Kate Hepburn--good job, very fun to listen to her.

And man, Howard Hughes had to have had every mental illness in the books. Obsessive compulsion, paranoia, agoraphobia, hallucinations... I felt so badly for him. I hope that he was able to get meds later in his life--it must have been a hard life.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

He wasnt agoraphobic, just afraid of people, he loved flying and open spaces...

but yeah, he never got good meds, and basically became a hermit in the penthouse of a vegas hotel.

I will say that its funny that both Pan Am and TWA no longer exist.

[stacer]

So what's the word for being afraid of crowds? I thought it was agoraphobic.

[fuzzyoctopus]

I think being afraid of crowds is part of claustrophobia?  It is in my husband anyway.

Agoraphobia is fear of open spaces.

[Spriggan]

you're correct Fuzzy.

[Oldie Black Witch]

Actually, agoraphobia has little to do with open spaces.
Here's the definition according to the Mental Health Institute.

[stacer]

Oh, that reminds me--he also had panic attacks.

[Mad Dr Jeffe]

well I stand corrected...

[Rican]

How do you go to the wrong theater and why didn't you just leave and find the right movie?

[stacer]

I had searched on Fandango, and for some reason I was thinking the Copley Square theatre is the one near my school. I have no idea--I know better. But by that time, it was the exact time for the movie to start, and by the time we got on the T and got to the right theatre, it would have been too late. So we just chose a movie that was showing at the one we were at.