Originally Posted by emamum (Post 1024660)

hospitals/ medical intervention, cant cope with having to go into hospital at all, even the thought of it makes me panic

Originally Posted by Chris SUI JURIS (Post 1024552)

Plus I didn't see a thread about phobias ;) so I thought i'd make one.

Originally Posted by emamum (Post 1024675)

im not that bothered about the dentist, its just hospitals

Originally Posted by Chris SUI JURIS (Post 1024680)

I know someone with the same fear she says it's that bad she can be physically sick :eek:

Originally Posted by Restless (Post 1024682)

she would hide her head inside the storage place under the stairs

Originally Posted by DaveinGermany (Post 1024688)

Where a further half dozen would be happily sitting ! ;)

Originally Posted by emamum (Post 1024687)

its a full on panic for me, ive had my last 3 babies at home (planned) because i couldnt go into hospital

Originally Posted by Gordon Booth (Post 1024648)

Nycotophobia?
I'm afraid you leave me in the dark with that one, Eric.

Originally Posted by emamum (Post 1024696)

if i really really really had to then i would go but i would try everything else first. im having physio for a back problem i have (cauda equina if your interested) i went in and had the mri to see what it was, i was taken in at night, i didnt sleep there and the discharged myself and went home, i could have an operation but the neurosurgeon agreed to trying the physio first since it would be impossible for me to be laid up for weeks anyway, seems to be working

Originally Posted by Chris SUI JURIS (Post 1024711)

cauda equina seems to be a tricky one with regards to treatment i assume your not of a age to be hanging upside down:Banane13:...I wish you the best of health tho an I'm glad the physio treatments working for you

Originally Posted by Chris SUI JURIS (Post 1024673)

In primitive conditions when coming into contact with something dangerous, the mind/body would create the optimum state for survival – a panic attack.
This type of learning is not of the intellectual or rational type. If we had to think, “Yes,this would be a good time to have a panic attack" our species would probably have died along time ago.
This type of learning takes place at an emotional level so that the response can bypass the ‘rational thinking brain’ In the past, an immediate phobic response to a predatory or poisonous animal would have been pretty useful.
Si we evolved with the ability to become phobic. In today’s world this learning mechanism often works in an inappropriate way.