Michael was terrified of the world. Are you?

He recalled having to run through crowds of screaming girls with his eyes covered by his hands for fear that they would scratch him, and hid in broom cupboards, hoping the throng would rush by and miss him.

SHOOT: Jackson seems to have suffered from acute agoraphobia, and paranoia. It has to be said that rationally speaking, the world can't realistically be called a safe place. There's pandemic flu out there, to name one rational concern. Paranoia is a normal response to the world, in a sense, but how much is the qestion. How much paranoia is healthy?

WIKI: anxiety disorder, often precipitated by the fear of having a panic attack in a setting from which there is no easy means of escape. As a result, sufferers of agoraphobia may avoid public and/or unfamiliar places. In severe cases, the sufferer may become confined to his or her home, experiencing difficulty traveling from this "safe place."
'They grab your hair and pull hard and it hurts like fire,' he recalled. 'You feel as if you're going to suffocate or be dismembered.'

clipped from www.dailymail.co.uk Two years after their divorce, Lisa Marie Presley, Elvis's daughter, and Michael Jackson held hands as they had lunch at a restaurant. Michael wore a black hat and matching silk surgical mask, which he refused to take off, even to eat. He slipped crab cakes and fried chicken under it and into his mouth. 'I want you to know that if you ever need a friend, I'm here for you. You have such a good heart, Michael,' Lisa told him. Then she asked the question that had foxed the world for years. 'But tell me this - why do you have to be so strange?'Shortly after they had married, she had seen for herself how flimsy was his take on the real world. He instructed her that the bodyguards would whisk her down the back stairs to a waiting car with blacked- out windows. He would travel separately and join her later.As they were preparing to leave their suite in Trump Tower in New York, Michael put on his mask, sunglasses and make-up. Jackson went berserk. 'Lisa! No!' he screamed. 'It's dangerous out there! They'll eat you alive!' 'Screw this,' she said and walked to the main lift. Jackson went berserk. 'Lisa! No!' he screamed. 'It's dangerous out there! They'll eat you alive!' An aide was sent after her, but she had disappeared. Jackson freaked out. 'My poor wife's been kidnapped. How will I live with myself? Call the police. Call the FBI. Call the CIA.' Lisa was discovered in a bar down the street, quietly sipping a martini.