I was watching a marathon of House, M.D. the other day and saw an episode called Last Resort. I think this is probably a good example of what I would call acute agnosiophobia; the irrational fear that there is something specific that is not known by the sufferer. Not to be confused with chronic agnosiophobia, which is more like what I describe on my “What Is Agnosiophobia” page.

Essentially in this episode a man takes House and several other people hostage in an attempt to force House to diagnose him. At one point he says “You’re not me. This is my body. This is my life. And there’s a truth out there. I’d rather rot in jail knowing than… I can’t handle not knowing.”

Sounds like agnosiophobia to me. What say you?