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Hi, I am new here and am trying to share my worst phobia here (I also suffer from depression and social anxiety, so might also be here to discuss this - but at the moment this is the reason for registering here).
I have an extreme phobia of everything related to eyes, which is worst when it comes to my touching my eyes, pulling down an eyelid, using eye drops / ointment or something like that or having it done by others.
I am actually terrified just by writing this and have to pluck up all my courage for it, this is how bad it is. It is particularly troubling to me that although I do (very luckily!) not suffer from any eye disorder yet, but any visits to the eye doctor would be absolutely impossible for me if anything ever came up. It is not just a matter of just getting it behind me or doing it, I absolutely cannot.
I have been like this all my life and the same thing has always been troubling me.
I wonder if anybody else knows this problem or can recommend things to do? Are there for example any eye doctors specialising in extremely phobic/anxious patients , a google search did not yield anything there (it might put my mind at a bit more ease if I knew there were)?
I know that there are for instance dentists around for anxious patients, and I also visit one - but when I think about it, although I am scared of the dentist, it is absolutely no contest for my phobia of anything to do with eyes, which is really terrifying.
Sorry if the text reads a bit crude and it is not that great an introduction - I am just very terrified at the moment
I have an extreme phobia of everything related to eyes, which is worst when it comes to my touching my eyes, pulling down an eyelid, using eye drops / ointment or something like that or having it done by others.
I am actually terrified just by writing this and have to pluck up all my courage for it, this is how bad it is. It is particularly troubling to me that although I do (very luckily!) not suffer from any eye disorder yet, but any visits to the eye doctor would be absolutely impossible for me if anything ever came up. It is not just a matter of just getting it behind me or doing it, I absolutely cannot.
I have been like this all my life and the same thing has always been troubling me.
I wonder if anybody else knows this problem or can recommend things to do? Are there for example any eye doctors specialising in extremely phobic/anxious patients , a google search did not yield anything there (it might put my mind at a bit more ease if I knew there were)?
I know that there are for instance dentists around for anxious patients, and I also visit one - but when I think about it, although I am scared of the dentist, it is absolutely no contest for my phobia of anything to do with eyes, which is really terrifying.
Sorry if the text reads a bit crude and it is not that great an introduction - I am just very terrified at the moment
