I hope so. Irrational fears are really hard to control.
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Quokka@quokk.au 1 day ago
Being afraid of needles is fine though, right?
Lemminary@lemmy.world 1 day ago
Daft_ish@lemmy.dbzer0.com 1 day ago
There is reasons to be afraid of needles. Courage is not being having no fear, its facing your fear.
DeathByBigSad@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
I remember the nurses just belittling me when I was like 10 and like I was scared of needles…
Something something “boys need to be brave” or something
Apytele@sh.itjust.works 1 day ago
My mother has become, in her later years, a “well idk if they definitely cause autism but I did vaccinate all of you and I do have a kid with autism…” which like. whatever. I’ve been over talking to them for a while now anyway.
But when I was younger and getting vaccinated she always said,“you’re gonna look at the wall in the other direction, it’s gonna hurt for a few seconds then it’ll be over and there’s an ice cream place next door.” And I have almost 0 medical anxiety, like I’ll let new grads I’m precepting practice on me before I let them stick a real patient.
vs I remember when I was a swimming instructor in my early 20s sometimes a kid would start crying and their parent would come over to scream at them to behave and then it would take waaay longer to get their body to relax enough to float.
So while I’m sure it doesn’t make or break every fear of needles or medical anxiety, I do think a LOT of it comes down to how the parent handles and ideally normalizes routine medical care.
Contramuffin@lemmy.world 13 hours ago
Frankly, I think that’s it. When I got shots, my parents would constantly remind me of how much it would hurt and laugh at me over my fear. I’m still scared of needles nowadays, even if by all objective measures they really don’t hurt at all
Crankenstein@lemmy.world 8 hours ago
Psychology is weird and the brain holds on to a lot of baggage. The brain is a very irrational and illogical meat computer, after all. It doesn’t care about objective reality, only our perception of it.