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Is this a medical condition? How can I help stop this? ?
For my whole life I’ve been feeling sick and dizzy over the smallest thing. For as long as I remember. I can watch the walking dead. But small things like feeling my pulse, thinking about my pulse, talking about diseases in lessons. Literally any small thing makes me feel sick and sometimes dizzy. I remember watching a few years ago, ‘my sisters keeper’ in class and I didn’t get very far because the moment it got to the throwing up blood part I felt a high pulse in my body. Making me feel worse and after all that I felt like throwing up. Trying to get up to tell the teacher I don’t feel well. I got dizzy and the room went upside down to a point I couldn’t walk and almost fell if not my teacher standing there and holding me up. It’s happened my whole life.
Causes to feeling sick and dizzy.
-certain gruesome moments in movies but not all the time, it’s rare I find a movie I feel sick about.
- feeling my pulse
- thinking about my pulse
- banging my leg on something
- the feeling of a cut
- talking about diseases in class
- talking about the body function in class
- having the ‘talk’ in college (yes that talk) (the be a sensible adult talk).
Most people would say it’s a fear of blood. I don’t have a fear of blood. Never have. Most say it’s a traumatic event relating to blood from the past but I never had. I’ve always been like this.
What’s the best way to stop this as it’s effecting my college lessons?
3 Answers
- Anonymous2 years ago
Sounds like it might be more about medical/bodily functions. It's hard to say how to improve it without knowing more, but you could try slowly exposing yourself to these things in controlled circumstances. It's how the responces of pathological gamblers/behavioural addicts are lessened whrn exposed to triggers. Try thinking about the thing which triggers the phobia, just something which has a mild reaction to start, until you don't have any reaction to it, and then looking at that thing until you have no reaction. Then move onto something else. Think about how much it would benefit you to be able to ignore the thing while you look at it. Try just being in the presence of something which triggers you while you do something else, preferrably something intellectually demanding, and refocusing on the other thing every time you start to feel the phobia. There's always therapy, too.
