Blood-injury-phobia

[Noca]

I have started my blood-injury-phobia treatment for 3 weeks now. I am working with a clinical psychologist(free) for however long it takes to treat this phobia. We are using a combination of exposure therapy and body tension techniques. When I start to feel dizzy from seeing/hearing about a needle or blood, I tense my entire body up. This tensing raises my blood pressure which stabilizes my dizziness and allows me to stay conscious.

A panic attack from blood-injury-phobia usually causes someone's blood pressure to drop, pulse to spike, they start sweating, shaking, and become very dizzy, eventually blacking out.

I've had about 20+ panic attacks throughout school caused by this phobia. I really want to get over it so I can get on with my life and school.

Anyone else have this phobia?

 

[cure]

I can faint when I look at blood for too long but it doesn't bother me.

 

[Hellhound]

When I was little I would get scared like hell from any injury. Not because of the injury itself, but because I feared massive infection and having a doctor amputating my limb or something. I must thank my old sister for that fear... She used to scare me with that so I would be careful and not get hurt. Fortunately, I could get over that fear (partially) in my teenager years. I say partially, because I still fear injections, blood tests and sometimes certain accidental injuries... or at least one part of me fears that.

 

[Mercedes]

I nearly fainted, went white as a sheet and had to put my head between my knees when I was assisting a friend with a doctor visit where they were taking a plug of skin for biopsy. I don't have a phobia about it though, but I was surprised because I didn't know it would bother me at all. I actually nearly fainted and the nurses, unfortunately, had to attend to me at such an inopportune time.