I had times when I was a kid, where I have to get my blood drawn, or my physical shots ready,
I tend to freak out, and cry throughout the whole procedures, but today, I don't freak out at all. All I do is just laugh nervously, while trying to restrain my whole body from moving. And speaking of freaking out from needles, I research of how am I scared from needles. This one is called:
Vasovagal syncope. It's basically a common fear to children (or adults if they don't grown out of it) when they tend to be very scared when they're having their blood drawn. If you want to see what I'm talking about, please
click this text. But onto the story. Yesterday, I was expected a day that I have to get my blood drawn, but however it was the day where I have to go to get my prescription pills, but I still have to get my blood drawn tomorrow (as if today while writing this cause this was posted on the day that I drew my blood). In 9pm, I was relieving the memories of my last freak outs I had, so then I thought to myself: "You know what? I think I need some strategies to help me calm down for tomorrow." And then for the
obvious thing to do is to take a deep breath, but I have own ways, such as restraining my body from moving so I could look like a statue, and pinching myself to feel like when I got a needle punctured to my arm. And then the
dreaded day came, and I was pretty nervous when arriving to the medical center. So, I restrain my body from moving, keep calm, then
*poke*. No scene, no screaming. I kept calmed, and my blood was drawn without any problem. I have to say it's pretty great to break off this whole syncope I'm having. But not entirely, as earlier, I still laugh nervously while I'm getting my blood drawn. So that experience was a, you know, terrifying, but still fun to look back at it now.
I have one question to my viewers. Do you have this fear too?
Please leave your answers and opinions down below.
--- Rosario, a.k.a spherical09