Belonephobia is a specific phobia involving an intense fear of needles and pins, broader than the narrower fear of medical injections alone. It can lead a person to avoid sewing, medical procedures or ordinary objects such as safety pins, and in some sufferers the anxiety is accompanied by a genuine fainting response, a pattern shared with other blood-injection-injury type phobias.
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Type of Phenomenon Diagnostic ChapterAnxiety or Fear-Related Disorders 2 Everyday Context Connections
In Branch
Source Wikipedia: Aichmophobia
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1. Belonephobia (Wikipedia)
Wikipedia Belonephobia lead paragraph (w-bbfill-psych-diag-0926, keyword classification against phenomenon-kind enum definitions, hand-checked)View the Source 2. ICD-11 Browser (WHO)
World Health Organization- Diagnostic Chapter: Anxiety or Fear-Related Disorders
3. Wikipedia: Aichmophobia
Wikimedia FoundationLead
Fear of needles is the extreme and irrational fear of medical procedures involving injections or hypodermic needles.
In Branch: Abnormal Psychology, Lead sentence
Aichmophobia () is a kind of specific phobia, the morbid fear of sharp things.
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