#tw trypanophobia

[peterokii]

another t4t seroroki sticker sheet

[spidey-bie]

Hobie with a friend or s/o who's afraid of needles anyone?

TW: Needles of course

Hobie hooks you up with someone that he's close with to ease your anxiety.

Whether if it's for a shot, a piercing, or a tattoo he somehow knows a guy.

He's helping to calm you down before you go in.

Also he'll definitely go in with you if you ask him to.

(This next paragraph is for me. IDC.)

"I know I should be over this by now. I mean I'm grown but I still can't even get a simple shot by mys-"

Your vision started to blur and your breaths were uneven.

"Lovely." He holds you close to his chest.

"You're so brave. Y'know that yeah?" He pauses and looks down at you.

"Couldn't be more proud of you facing your fears and all that."

He knows so many breathing exercises since he has to constantly keep calm in his symbiote riddled world.

Hobie will keep you distracted making sure that you never get a glimpse of the needle.

Before, during, and after the process he'll keep your eyes on him.

He'll gently playing with your fingers or talk to you about anything to keep your mind off off of.

If you're incredibly terrified, like me, and you just wish someone would hold you as you cry you'll be getting the shot while sitting in his lap.

If you're getting a tattoo or a piercing, and you choose to get it done by a professional same procedure.

Even if you're sitting there for hours on end he'll keep your mind occupied. He'll sing to you knowing that his terrible voice with make you laugh.

Also Hobie will just give you a piercing himself if you ask.

"Ducky, do you want me to count down o-"

"Nope. Just do it."

A/N: I used more slang this time. Typing this with shaking fingers since I have to go in to get blood work later today. My arms still hurt from the 2 shots I got Friday. I was near tears just from those. I was supposed to get blood work done at the same place but after pricking me twice I was told that I have deep veins so I have to go to another place. I wanna live out my "I'm getting every piercing under the sun" phase but idk how I'm gonna deal with the needle.

[autumnday19]

Going to be celebrating this March 15th by getting stabbed (getting my covid shot)

[vacuously-true]

My Lilycat is a perfect angel who takes her injections like a champ with no problems at all. Except for occasionally when she doesn't. But we don't talk about that. Most of the time she does great. I love her.

[fizzy4president]

More Arsentropolis!!!!!!!!

I made some silly designs for the dogs and rats in the game concept, along with a new character!!!!

Miss Thorn, is a 32 year old nurse at the local hospital, that has been shut down and abandoned for over a year. No other personnel remains in this facility and certainly not any patients, alive patients for that part.

She tends to roam around the hospital, taking care of patients, that died long ago. She has brainwashed herself into thinking that these patients are alive and need treatment. She isn’t as stable and sane ever since the hospital shut down, as she seems to have completely descended into madness.

Sometimes she has even attacked and kidnapped trespassers in the hospital, infecting them with poison so that she can take care of them. Only to later infect them again once recovered. Miss Thorn has gone lenghts far beyond her limit to fulfill her ”duty”. She is under the influence of Raphael, the ”archangel” of healing. He keeps her alive so that she can continue her duties, but he is probably one of the reasons she is no longer herself.

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If I were to make a game of this, she would be the first antagonist. The game starts in the hospital she’s in, with the protagonist/player waking up in a hospital bed after a 6 year long coma. Player goes through a few puzzles and challanges, without her being a threat in the start. After a while she discovers you, chasing you down, demanding to get back to bed and take your pills. There are more challenges, until she is lured to a pit of needles, that she then falls into. She’s not dead yet though, chasing you with needles as she’s slowly dying from the ones pierced into her flesh. But eventually she dies shortly before the player escapes, because of her injuries and infections from the needles.

That first part would be called ”Trypanophobia”, as it will have a lot of needles 😭

I’m planning to make the other parts phobia themed as well but I’m not sure what phobias to go with yet.

[scarstarved]

Pitch Black (2000) dir. David Twohy

[honeyblisss]

i (have severe trypanophobia) am getting bloodwork today. she ordered 8 fucking tests !!! one of which i have to fast for so. this is fun. it’s not until 3 either.

[milktoast-femboy]

🌸💞 the doctor is ready to see you now 💞🌸

[aquarium-of-chaos]

tw needles!!!

our caretaker agreed to a needle and i KNOW we need it and we got one the other day but. god. we all hate them. bar bear. we'll just get bear to do it.

[humanpotassium]

So I have pretty bad insomnia, and I ran out of my normal meds last night but I found my old jar of melatonin gummies... I KNOW okay, but I actually cannot physically sleep without help and I figured it would be better than nothing, but man was I wrong. My love for my current stuff is so much stronger now, I hadn't really noticed that I no longer had sleep paralysis but taking that melatonin sent me on the craziest cycle of hallucinations, then nightmares, and then sleep paralysis with hallucinations. Not fun at all. But good news is I picked up my meds today so no more creepy old lady's trying to stab me with a bunch of needles or just literally giggling from a dark corner of my room ...

Like a weirdo 🙄

[redtail-lol]

I might have trypanophobia myself and while I can sometimes get shots, it's not fun and I'm really happy to see the point about herd immunity. Some of us really can't get them and I think a panic disorder around needles is a valid reason to get a medical exemption. Much more valid than the conspiracy theory bullshit some people believe.

What Not to Say/Do to a Trypanophobic Person

I've seen a lot of ignorant people (most of them healthcare providers) over the course of my time as a person with a severe needle phobia, so I've compiled a list of things that have made my blood absolutely boil and either don't help or actively worsen my phobia.

Saying "it's just a little needle", "it's not that bad", or anything else that aims to minimize the situation. Phobias are irrational, but the people who have them are not. We're fully aware of how ridiculous phobias are, you don't need to remind us. It's infantilizing and likely to put us on the defensive, which can raise anxiety/adrenaline.

Calling us babies or weak for having a phobia. Phobias are panic disorders. We can't switch them off. Unless you think having a mental illness is a weakness (which I hope you don't) it's illogical and hurtful to apply this kind of thinking to us.

Physically restraining us. Physical restraints are bad. Really fucking bad. If done wrong (or even when done correctly) they can seriously injure or kill someone. If a person with a needle phobia is attempting to leave the situation, they are engaging the "flight" part of "flight or fight". So what happens if flight becomes unavailable? We fight. I've injured people who have restrained me in the past. It's not conscious or intentional, it's pure instinct. It can also be traumatizing to be exposed to something you're terrified of and forced to undergo a procedure, even if you agreed to it previously. Let me repeat that for emphasis. Even if a person previously agreed to undergo a procedure, it can still be traumatic if they attempt to retract consent and aren't allowed to.

Trying to scare us. When in a calm state we might decide, on our own, to weigh the risks and rewards of getting a procedure involving a needle done. And sometimes our anxiety about not getting a procedure done outweighs anxiety of getting the procedure done and we decide to go through with it. But if you attempt to scare us into a procedure involving a needle, we can tell. And once we figure out what you're doing, we can no longer trust the information you're giving us. I've known doctors who have exaggerated or straight up lied to me about what would happen if I didn't get a vaccine. Even if you're 100% truthful, tone matters. Don't act concerned, angry, or like you're talking to a child. Give us the facts in a calm, professional manner, and let us work on the rest.

Insisting on talking about needles even when we've asked to stop/said we're done. If you're discussing a procedure involving needles with a trypanophobic person and they say anything to the effect of "I don't want to talk about this anymore", the conversation is over. It doesn't matter if you just had some great revelation or if what you have to say is really important. Keep it to yourself. We usually won't cut off a conversation about our phobia until it reaches a point where we can't handle it anymore. If you keep pushing, you might trigger a panic attack.

Exposing us to needles without our consent. "But exposure therapy!" I hear you saying, and to that I respond "shut up and fuck off, you don't know what that is". Exposure therapy is when a person with trauma, OCD, a phobia, or another disorder that can be triggered chooses to slowly, in a controlled environment, expose themself to a trigger. Exposure therapy can't be done to a person, only by a person. For a trypanophobic person, this might be looking at pictures of people getting injections. When they've had enough and are getting too stressed, they can simply close the tab and move on to something less stressful. Sending someone pictures of needles, taking them to places where needles might be, pretending that you're going to jab them, those things aren't exposure therapy. That's emotional abuse, repeatedly exposing someone to something that you know triggers panic in them for your own amusement.

Shaming us for the "damage" we could be doing. Herd immunity is important. It's important because it protects those who can't be vaccinated, including some of us. I was at a point a few years ago where I physically couldn't enter a room where I knew a needle was going to be used on me. My body just wouldn't move that way. Since physical restraining isn't an option, if someone can't bring themself to get a vaccine on their own due to a phobia, they're vaccine exempt. End of story.

Shaming us for not actively working on recovering. First of all, there's no way for you to know if someone is working on their phobia or not. Second of all, there are a lot of valid reasons to not be recovering. The main one that comes to mind is external stress. When my needle phobia was at its worst I was in 10th grade, the hardest grade at my school. I was barely staying afloat as it was. Treating your day-to-day stress has to come before working on a bigger, less present issue.

Asking us when we're going to get over/grow out of it. Phobias vary in severity and ease of management. Some people are never able to manage their phobia. Some people learn to manage it very quickly. Some people benefit from simple techniques like deep breathing and distraction, some people need more advanced help. Some people are able to participate in exposure therapy, some are too overwhelmed by their trigger to even try. Like any other mental illness, phobias are complicated and no two phobic people are exactly alike. Applying your expectations of recovery on us doesn't help and can vary from annoying to hurtful.

Ignoring or arguing with our accommodations. Disabled people, as a general rule, don't ask for accommodations we don't need. If a person with a phobia is asking you to perform a procedure in a different way than you're used to, it's more likely than not that this is the only way they can get it done. For instance, I have to have blood taken from a vein on my right hand. The vein on my inner elbow, the one they usually use, is hard to find, making the procedure take longer and causing me more pain. The only reason I'm able to get the blood work I need to manage and research my chronic illness is that I discovered this easier way to do it. People who are doing exposure therapy are in an extremely fragile state of mine, often having or on the verge of having a panic attack. If things don't go exactly as planned it can be traumatic and reinforce the phobia even more. Do what you can to make the procedure as calm and quick as possible. If something goes wrong accidentally, apologize and be kind even if the person seems irrationally upset over it. We're dealing with incredibly high adrenaline, our bodies are sending us signals that we're in mortal danger. In addition, as I mentioned before, some people also can't do procedures involving needles at all and will need to be excused from those procedures. Pushing a person with trypanophobia to discuss needles can cause them to panic or become defensive. This isn't something we have control over and it's not something we can be talked out of.

[sunnixsunshine]

Trypanophobia Zoro propaganda :)

[gracebethartacc]

SHAMBLES OUT OF IBIS COVERED IN BLOOD hi guys I did KICB au design timeline refs yay :3

[wyndigos-blog]

Okay, I could not fit this entire thing in the notes, so I'm going to make a separate post for it @servusapollinis

Basically, vasovagal syncope is a condition where, when somebody is exposed to certain triggers (usually blood, gore, vomit, or needles, although it can be many other things) they experience a massive spike in heart rate and a massive drop in blood flow, usually leading to emotional distress, lightheadedness, headaches, or fainting.

I have severe trypanophobia (fear of needles) and I got vasovagal syncope from my mom, so I flip the fuck out whenever I see/am near needles. But this is insane, It's totally irrational, I absolutely love horror, and gore, and all that stuff, it doesn't bother me at all, probably to a concerning extent! So it's totally weird for me to have this.

But I've been watching the SAW franchise, and I've had absolutely no reaction to all of the blood and gore, I've quite enjoyed watching it. But now I'm on the second movie, and there's a scene where a woman has to crawl through a pit of needles. And up until this point, I'm completely fine, enjoying the movie, laughing with my family, all the good stuff. And all of a sudden I'm super light-headed, I'm crying and I don't know why I'm crying, and then I start laughing because I'm crying, and I can't stop laughing, and then my dad had to get me some water and help me off the floor.

I've had some very extreme reactions to needles, I mean hell, I wasn't even in the double digits when I was literally fighting several doctors just because I had to get blood drawn, but I've never done something like that, and I have a good feeling that the next time I have to see a needle irl, I'm going to pass out for real this time.

So yeah! Actually a pretty funny experience, but probably not the best.

[vacuously-true]

Hey I just wanna say thanks to everyone who helped me out and give an update. My beloved Lilycat is MUCH improved. It's been six weeks since her emergency vet visit because she'd been vomiting and not eating. She was diagnosed with chronic kidney disease and put on IV fluids for three days. I brought her home and got her on prescription kidney support food, nausea meds, and regular saline injections for hydration. Now her appetite is great, she's gained back the weight she lost, she's only thrown up once in these six weeks and it was a hairball so probably not actually related to the kidney problems, and one of her two primary blood test kidney indicator values has fallen back to (the high end of) the normal range, while the other is close. I got to take her off the nausea med and honestly I think she's showing some signs of OVER hydration so I'm gonna ask the vet tomorrow if I can reduce the volume of subcutaneous fluids I'm giving her.

She's doing so well and improved in so many aspects- even things about her that I hadn't associated with being sick but rather just getting old have reversed. She's just perkier. A little more active. She got brave and started hanging out in the cat trees for the first time in the six years I've had her- not the top levels, just the bottom ones, but she's never been much of a climber so it's still very cool. I am so happy my girl is doing so well. Unfortunately chronic kidney disease is a progressive disease and probably will kill her someday, but it could be months or it could be years. And with how well she's responding to treatment I'm very hopeful for years.

The prescription food and regular injections are kind of expensive especially on my grad student budget but I'm trying to make it work. I bought some of the prescription kidney support food from a woman on Facebook marketplace (cheaper this way) whose CKD cat had recently passed and she told me he was 19, and had been diagnosed at 13 just like my Lilycat. I am trying not to hope for too much, things could turn bad quickly. But hope is not irrational, there's plenty of chance she can stay relatively healthy for years with the right supportive treatments.

Thank you all so much for your support, both financial and emotional. I am so grateful. Lily and I love you very much.

My Lilycat is in the hospital and it's going to cost like at least $5000. I'm a grad student making like $22K a year. If anyone is willing to help me out to take care of my girl please reach out. I love her so much and I'm so worried about her. Anything you can contribute would help me so much. I love my girl so much.

[harveylikestoart]

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