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Phobias and panic attacks are the new fashion. Evryone has an opinion on that but not everyone knows what to be a REAL phobic is and the limitations that this can bring you in your personal and profesional life.

Most people just thinks you are an attention whore that exagerates about certain thing and like it. Me, as a phobic, i can tell you NONO, I dont like the attention and I would love to be able to contro what i feel.

Theres a LOT of different phobias, some of them seam riduculous to most people, and as strange as they might sound you should respect the person that has it and try to be patient with them.

I have a strong phobia for needles. This brough a loooot of bad things to my life. I rejected a lot of good job oportunities for being scared to get my blod checked for it. I had to quit sports because i just coudnt get a health certificate to practice them and i lost many friends because they chose to make fun of me and call me a whimp instead of helping me get over it.

I had a friend once that had a strong phobia for bald man. If she saw a bald man she would start shaking and crying if he came any closer. I coudnt understand it at first, but i always respected her because i know that is a feeling you cant control, panic takes over your mind and theres nothing you can do about it. One day i knew why she had that phobia and understood a lot more, she got raped at the age of 1 by a bald man, and all she could remember about him is that she was bald. So if you have a friend with a phobia you shoudnt make fun of him, even if its something really stupid to you, you dont know why his or her mind reacts against a certain situation, object or thing that way, but im sure after every phobia theres an explanation.

A panic attack is a feeling no one can certainly describe, but i tell you, is not pleasant at all !!! You feel you are gonna die. No less than that ! you simply feel you are gonna die, even though your logic tells you you cant die over a lil needle (in my case) your head is not reponding to your logic and your whole body feels it. Is something i cant explain. But i will try to tell you what i feel. If i see in a movie or even think about a vein, blood or needles y start feeling them in my whole body and my mind projects such a vivid img i can feel the pain of 10000 of them everywhere and i just wanna escape, but wherever i go the pain and the mental img follows me so i cant breath well and start losing control of myself.

After many years TODAY i did it. Today i got blood taken out, and im really proud of it. To you it might not seam like a big thing, but to me is a reallly big step. I faced my biggest fear and i won. Im still terribly scared of needles but today i know im stronger.

Do you have a phobia? what is it? wanna share? Im really interested in hearing any comments about it.

Yay for leti :0 <3
I've never been bothered by needles, but I've had some friends who are. They can manage to do it if it's like for a vaccine or something.
I have some things that kinda bother me. Like moths and other bugs, or even birds, flying close around me. x.x Makes me feel kinda panicked, but I don't cry I just really want to stay away from them and I mostly panic about them getting in my hair D:
I can't do ladders and unstable things like that. It's not the height so much as dreading feeling unsteady. When we hang stuff up for studio class I have to get someone else to help me. x.x
They might not be too bad as far as phobias go but it's still not a lot of fun.

spiders are my fear too

OMG! I thought I was the only one with needles.
I have a needles phobia too. I cry anytime I have to have some blood taken out for a medical exam. I fainted many times for the same reason. I start shacking and screaming "nononono".

Spiders.
ageing.
dying.