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riokri asked in HealthMental Health · 10 years ago

Is this a mental disorder?

Okay, so I feel really weird talking about this.

Anyway, I have this fear and obsession with hospitals.

Let me start with the fear part. Whenever I see blood, needles, hear something about that topic, I faint. I completely pass out and go unconscious. Everyone has heard that before, right? I freak out over needles and everything.

Okay, going on to the obsession. I am not really sure when this started, I've been fainting since I was five and I have fainted about 16 times in my lifetime(I am 18). I fainted in a hospital once and they put me in the ER and ran some tests, etc. Really there's nothing wrong with me. The problem is, I am obsessed with it, I am obsessed with the rush I get from feeling attended to in that particular way. Whenever a doctor would take a stethoscope to my chest or do something of that nature, I get this rush. What happens is that I feel my heart drop a little bit, but it feels good. I crave this feeling often, which is really starting to affect me. I feel as if I have to have it. Whenever I get sick, I demand that attention. If I am sick and no one pays attention to me, I begin to grow depressed and masochistic. I come from a family that always says oh you're fine. They never really have been concerned any time I am sick. I think that's sort of where this whole obsession began.

I daydream about getting stuck in a hospital. I recently spilled my guts to my boyfriend of two years and I just feel ashamed of this obsession. I cry about this often, I just want the thought's to stop. I have never told anyone else, but everyone only knows about the fainting part.

Thank you for reading all the way.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago
    Favorite Answer

    You fear it , but that fear gives you an adrenaline rush.

    That's that heart-dropping+speeding up feeling.

    It's like being on a roller coaster .

  • Anonymous
    5 years ago

    No to a million. No to 2. 3 is the treatment and the appeal. there are literally hundreds of genetic problems that are taken care of on a daily basis and individuals get to steer a typical existence, nonetheless there is not any treatment for many. on your case honestly you're extremely fortunate, your underlying problems are rigidity and melancholy. they're very easliy treatable on your case. you do no longer even pick a psychologist merely yet, ask you relatives wellness care expert which you extremely pick to objective some anti-depressant which will handle your melancholy and rigidity. this could carry prompt alleviation to you (seventy two hours) and your urges to tear at your self will decrease extremely severely. in case you are able to no longer even try this for your self, there is not any longer the rest i will permit you be attentive to. merely take into consideration it truly is an ailment like all different and could be taken care of. @Earthquake you're as a lot a psychology scholar as "Psychology Mullah" became. LMAO. This time you may desire to call your self optimal exposure. lol

  • ?
    Lv 6
    10 years ago

    you wont faint if you relax muscles and keep breathing deep and slow, fast deep breathing causes fainting( hyperventilation)

    addiction from adrenalin rush from panic attacks is common

  • 10 years ago

    You may have Munchausen syndrome.

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  • Anonymous
    10 years ago

    yes it is. its called [excuse my spelling] MAUNCHESTERS .

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