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I have really severe needle phobia - vasovagal response, pass out, avoid doctors, "start crying at the sight of one of those chairs people sit in to receive injections" type severe. Has anybody had this or have any advice for what to do about this?

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I'd be interested if this applies to genetic phobias as opposed to learned phobias. From what I've read, phobias that occur as a result of a traumatic thing are way more responsive to therapy; genetic phobias kick in with no trigger and are therapy-resistant.

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Genetic phobia is a thing? Like what? how? That’s crazy.

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yeah; i read a stat (so take with grain of salt) that 80% of people with vasovagal needle phobia have a direct relative with it. My dad has it. I also had no negative experience or trigger. It just randomly started when I was about 16 when I passed out after a routine shot.

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