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Bloodfear
rivercane
Veteran
In a recent thread (which has since been closed) another poster mentioned:
For as long as I can remember I have had an extreme fear of blood and syringes but what's more, a total disgust with blood, veins, muscle, tissue, veins, etc. I have a kind of profound distaste for the human body.
I hate being embodied and I would love to live in some kind of abstract, platonic form. And I know this will sound completely stupid but I have a serious issue with the fact that we have to defecate and urinate. I mean, how much better would life be if we didn't have to do this things? Even eating food and drinking water is a chore. Think of how much more convenient life would be if we were free of this.
I felt a sense of relief when I read that this is an actual condition. One thing I would like to mention in closing is that I am also really disgusted by the human brain. The human mind itself, in an abstract sense, is wonderful and I am fascinated by thought and imagination but the actual organ itself which produces these thoughts - well to me that it something that should almost be treated with contempt.
BTW, when I say that I have a fear of blood, I mean I have a profound, almost debilitating fear of blood. To the point where I've passed out in health class at school or at home just watching someone draw blood on TV.
When I lived in Portland, I actually passed out in public - I mean completely lost consciousness and hit the floor on the train as it was going through downtown and I happened to see a junkie through the window who was underneath a bridge injecting drugs into his vein.
I kept telling myself: don't pass out, don't pass out...until the next thing I knew, someone was helping me off the floor as I was lying on the floor of the train staring up at him with no recollection of what had just happened.4
Other people sympathise somewhat with my distaste for needles but also find it somewhat amusing that I have such a phobia about it.
a fear of the natural. Bloodfear. Fear of being embodied. The desire for some kind of platonic idealistic existence.Well, this will probably sound incredibly foolish but I thought it was just me. That is, I thought this was just something unique to me and I didn't realize that it was an actual "thing" until reading the comment.
For as long as I can remember I have had an extreme fear of blood and syringes but what's more, a total disgust with blood, veins, muscle, tissue, veins, etc. I have a kind of profound distaste for the human body.
I hate being embodied and I would love to live in some kind of abstract, platonic form. And I know this will sound completely stupid but I have a serious issue with the fact that we have to defecate and urinate. I mean, how much better would life be if we didn't have to do this things? Even eating food and drinking water is a chore. Think of how much more convenient life would be if we were free of this.
I felt a sense of relief when I read that this is an actual condition. One thing I would like to mention in closing is that I am also really disgusted by the human brain. The human mind itself, in an abstract sense, is wonderful and I am fascinated by thought and imagination but the actual organ itself which produces these thoughts - well to me that it something that should almost be treated with contempt.
BTW, when I say that I have a fear of blood, I mean I have a profound, almost debilitating fear of blood. To the point where I've passed out in health class at school or at home just watching someone draw blood on TV.
When I lived in Portland, I actually passed out in public - I mean completely lost consciousness and hit the floor on the train as it was going through downtown and I happened to see a junkie through the window who was underneath a bridge injecting drugs into his vein.
I kept telling myself: don't pass out, don't pass out...until the next thing I knew, someone was helping me off the floor as I was lying on the floor of the train staring up at him with no recollection of what had just happened.4
Other people sympathise somewhat with my distaste for needles but also find it somewhat amusing that I have such a phobia about it.
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There are a couple of different theories as you would expect..and it could be that none preclude the others.
The first is simply Behavioural, in the Pavlovian/Skinnerian sense. We are exposed to bodlily processes in a setting that engenders a phobic response, which is then triggered by certain stimuli..like Pavlovs dogs but concerning things bodily.
The deeper theory is that some people depending on a range of factors develop an aversion to being embodied..this shows itself in extreme form in anorexia nervosa or bulimia. Problems can occur when a subject who has this aversion even to a lesser degree encounters certain religious views..particularly views that are Body Negative..in such systems the adherents are encouraged to see themselves as existing 'really' in a platonic world..they are encouraged to see their bodily functions as distinct from their ' real ' selves which is a kind of ghost inhabiting or trapped in, matter.
By extension sexual activity is impure, as is enjoying food. Particularly food that is carnal and bloody or has been.
Certain kinds of Buddhism certainly encourage this kind of aversive view.
It is marked contrast to those Buddhist teachers who encourage us to start 'where we are' embodied and on this blue planet along with animals and trees and water and wind and flesh and blood.