Needle phobia: how to get over your fear of needles
Having an injection can be difficult if you have a needle phobia, but if you need support to get over your fear, there are some simple ways you can make it easier. If the thought of having an ...
Blood-injection-injury type phobia
[4] Prevalence of fear of needles which does not meet the BII phobia criteria is higher. [5] A proper name for BII has yet to be created. Causes of BII phobia have yet to be fully understood. There is ...
Phobias: types, causes, and treatment
Social Phobias cause anxiety, self-consciousness, and embarrassment because you fear being scrutinized or judged negatively by others. Agoraphobia is a fear of being trapped. It is often referred ...
Fear of needles
Anxiety about needles, though, doesn't have to meet the formal definition of a phobia to cause problems. About a quarter of adults are afraid of needles, and an estimated 7% of adults avoid ...
Health: How to make giving blood a breeze - even if you have a needle-phobia
For people with needle phobia though, and those who just can't ... rate and blood pressure rise and then rapidly drop, which can cause fainting. NHSBT says a simple technique to help with this ...
Letter: There’s a general lack of understanding about needle phobias and it needs to change
This from Alan (surname withheld). Ed The news that now NHS staff are to be compulsorily vaccinated has prompted me to write about those people, like myself, who suffer from a severe phobia of needles ...
Health: How to make giving blood a breeze - even if you have a needle-phobia
For people with needle phobia though, and those who just can't stand the sight ... or because seeing blood makes their heart rate and blood pressure rise and then rapidly drop, which can cause ...
