Does anyone remember the man in the news awhile back, because supposedly electricity and electric applianced made him ill? As I recall, he remedied this by moving out west as far away from the power grid as he could go.
And, if you don’t remember the story or if no news agencies still have their pages on it up: What is the word for that man’s ailment?
Thanks! 
“Nuts”
I’ve seen several shows on these sorts of people. Often they have to be videotaped from a long distance away with a zoom lens because they believe the camera makes them ill. They usually end up moving out to the middle of the woods somewhere.
Unfortunately I don’t know the scientific name for their disorder.
Electrophobic seems like an obvious choice.
If there isn’t an official word yet I’ll nominate that.
I was thinking “Electric Anxiety.”
And then I was thinking, “Man, that’d make a sweet band name.”
Okay, for all the cite-mongers out there that think this was just a fever dream, here’s one article similar to the one I had in mind. Unfortunately, it doesn’t give a name to the symptoms involved.
This site calls it “technophobia” but then they are selling CD’s to help you get over your fear of computers. Heh. That’s funny if you think about it.
http://www.changethatsrightnow.com/problem_detail.asp?PhobiaID=1879&SDID=883
A lot of other sites also list technophobia. It may not be a correct term but at least it’s popular.
This site lists electrophobia and a bunch of others, but again I’m not sure I’d reference it in a research paper (the web page title is “Funny phobias and weird phobias”):
http://www.saviodsilva.net/ph/11.htm
This one has electrophobia and technophobia
http://www.phobialist.com/
And there has to be some cruelty in the fact that Sesquipedalophobia is the fear of long words.
That’s so the docs can bill you for trauma teatment when they tell you what you’ve got. 
Ha. Q.E.D.
I’m hesitant to use ‘electrophobia.’ I know there’s debate [apparently not much, but some!] as to the legitimacy of this condition, but how much can a phobia affect an individual?
The other possibility: These people have been suffering those symptoms for an unknown reason, and rationalized it by attributing it to electricity. This could be how their phobias began.
engineer_comp_geek: This is research for a piece of fiction, so I don’t mind the less-than-collegiate source-- that is, as long as it’s correct.
Thanks!
For some reason this is quite common in Sweden. (I guess every population has its nutters, and at least they don’t try to hail passing spaceships by comitting suicide every time there’s a nearby comet.)
Anyway, it has been more or less recognised by the public health system (although of course there are no rational tests to prove that it even exists), under the name elöverkänslighet, which would translate more or less into electricity hypersensitivity.
Definitely! It has been shown that it can be treated with *Cognitive Behaviour Therapy (CBT) * (cite)
Revolted?
Ohmophobe?