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Medical and Body-State Phobias

A specific phobia centered on medical care, bodily harm, illness or a particular state of one's own body, frequently overlapping with a documented avoidance of needed medical treatment because the phobia itself interferes with seeking care. This group gathers the medical and body-state phobias recorded under Psychology's Specific Phobias group, including fears of needles, blood, medical procedures, dentistry, disease and contamination, alongside phobias centered on a specific body part or bodily process, distinguishing these from the broader body-focused clinical phenomena gathered elsewhere in this subcategory by their shared identity as a named, diagnosable phobia rather than a general somatic symptom.

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Phobia Type (DSM-5)
Blood-Injection-Injury Type 1
Medical and Body-State Phobias
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1. Wikipedia: Specific phobia
WikipediaSpecific phobia, DSM-5 types section, blood-injection-injury type
Quote, Specific phobia, DSM-5 types section, blood-injection-injury type
Including fear of medical procedures, including needles and injections (trypanophobia), fear of blood (hemophobia) and fear of getting injured (traumatophobia).
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