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Is having pizza delivery anxiety related to abandonment issues as a child (details inside)?

Asked by talljasperman (21916points) March 25th, 2013

Or am I alone with this disorder of pacing back and forth looking at cars driving by… hoping that the next one is “the one”?
Also is their another name for this condition, and do you have one in particular to share with Fluther?

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Adirondackwannabe's avatar

I love pizza but not quite that much. Maybe contact pizza anon?

bkcunningham's avatar

That is funny, @talljasperman. I can’t think of anything clever to say. Just wanted to say that I think that is very funny.

Tropical_Willie's avatar

Whey Two Fun-Knee ! !

CWOTUS's avatar

The word for this is iktsuarpok. And it has nothing to do with pizza or abandonment. It has more to do with hunger. And tasty, tasty pizza. Okay, it has a little to do with pizza, then. It’s funny that the originators of the word wouldn’t have known about that, though.

Coloma's avatar

LOL….well…I’d hate to see how you’d cope with breakups, divorce, death, and having to find the perfect home for your 15 year old imprinted goose you raised from a wee gosling, like I just did.
Time maybe for some self help, philosophy and spiritual guidance, along with some couch time. :-)

bkcunningham's avatar

Hope you are okay, @Coloma. ((((HUGS))))

mambo's avatar

I’ll definitely have to bring this question up to my psychology professor…

nofurbelowsbatgirl's avatar

OMG! They didn’t get the message. HashtagFLY. RETWEET.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

Why is this disorder drawing all this attention?

nofurbelowsbatgirl's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe You like burgers and fries more don’t you? Me too! There is place that just opened up around here called five guys burgers and fries yummmmmy! Best burgers in town.

Adirondackwannabe's avatar

@nofurbelowsbatgirl I love them. I love the fries too. Your making me drool.

nofurbelowsbatgirl's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe That’s nothing new, I seem to have that affect lately lol right, you mean the burgers and fries ;)

Coloma's avatar

Pffft! Down to extreme weirdness in the fridge over here with moving day on Weds. Dinner is grapes, apples and cheese crackers with BBQ beans. lol

nofurbelowsbatgirl's avatar

@Adirondackwannabe btw according to everyone the burgers are great. I am a vegetarian & I do only eat the fries which you are right they are really good. :) 1 regular fries feeds the whole family :D lol.
@Coloma I hate beans :x

elbanditoroso's avatar

You may think this is funny, but there is actually a real syndrome in the DMM called “Acute Postmanitis”. It seems that there are people who literally live for the arrival of the postman (and therefore the mail) each day – if they get no mail on a given day, they become depressed (temporarily, of course) and in acute cases, almost dysfunctional.

One way to detect potential postmanitis suffers is that they subscribe to a large number of magazines (delivered by mail),, they get their monthly bills in envelopes (not online) and they do a lot of mail order, bringing the mailman to their homes regularly.

Over the years, they adapt to the lack of Sunday mail delivery – compensation functions like churchgoing and the like will that 24-hour void. But if the postal service is allowed to reduce delivery from 6 days a week to five, you can expect a concomitant increase in acute postmanitis within a week or so of the new USPS policy.

This is not a laughing matter. People are truly psychologically attached to the delivery of mail.

CWOTUS's avatar

I’m sure that acute postmanitis is a serious First World Problem for some people, though it can’t hope to rival OhShitMyWirelessIsDownitis in terms of severity.

Inspired_2write's avatar

I think that this involves impatience, anxiety, and hunger pains.
Something we all experience.

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