Needles are indeed a nemesis from childhood

Dude same! I have piercings and tattoos, but as soon as I need a shot or bloodwork, I panic

IS SHE GONNA SHOVE IT UP HOS AHH OR SOMETHING?

Awwwww noo! I was in the medical field for 10 years and I always tried my best with people who have this fear to make them comfortable ;;

Same, I feel my heart quicken and my skin gets clammy at the mere sight of a needle

I use to have that very fear of needles from doctors years ago. However, for some reason, something back then made me no longer be afraid if Booster Shots. I just wish I remembered what it was.

Not the sterile stabby!
Cure nurse though. ❤️

Oh heck naw buddy! I aint doing that!

I feel him.

Amazing work ^^

Now imagine people like me who needs blood samples every few months! Stay strong good deer!

I used to be so scared of needles is that I needed to be held down.

Now though? I'm fine as long as I watch. I can't describe the process but it feels like taking a breath and live so much in the moment that I stop thinking about what is happening instead I am just an observer outside of my body watching it happen to someone else. I'm not even processing memory at the moment. It is just something that is, I am something that is, it all just is. Thus none of it matters and it just can happen.

That actually sounds like depersonalization, a common sensation of 'out of body' experience described by people who live on the Trauma or Dissociative spectrums.

it doesn't have to mean anything, you can arrive to depersonalization through meditation, recreational substances, forms of deliberate relaxation, and fatigue. But it sounds significant, and may warrant some journal keeping if you notice this kind of experience is something you have during times of stress.

I see this and I just remember the peanut butter shot from basic. That thing HURT.

I just look away and pretend it's a pinch. If you think this is bad, wait till you get an IV.

I really like the composition and the colours on this piece. Especially the hue shift in the gradient in the background towards the bottom. And yes, needles are scary. >~<

Тебе в детстве никогда 40 уколов не прописывали?=)

Sore buttock incoming!

"Don't look, Ethel!" (You have to be Olde to get this ref.)

;-P

Just look the other way and pretend the Needle isn't there & don't look at it.

...А потом его направили на гастроскопию ^_^

Needles do not belong in me.

I'm the opposite, I look right at the needle intently. I've unnerved the people jabbing me sometimes. So in this situation getting it in the butt would be worse because then I wouldn't be able to look.

Herniated disc pain management?

Oh very cool stuff, as always.

Buddy! This should be marked as NSFW!

But honestly, I 100% feel you.
Even the day before I got a shot I become so nervous I also got diarrhea. :'s

I was never needle shy.

I get it though

I used to get nervous at the doctor's office for other reasons 💉

I dont blame you my friend; I was old enough to remember when tetnis shots had to be administered right into one of the buttcheeks 0o

Thankfully i never got one like that. It was always the arm