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Q: How can I get rid of my phobia?
One that is so bad that I have panic attacks and pass out if it's even mentioned....
:-(
Well.
There's really nothing else that you can do.
Generally, part of overcoming phobias is confronting the fear and realizing that there is nothing wrong with it.
For example- little kids that are afraid of the dentist, they go, and realize it isnt so bad, and are over their fear.
Fear generally consists in people who dont have knowledge on the subject that theyre afraid of. Once they experiance it and become knowledgable they are able to overcome it.

If thats absolutely not possible though, you could go through some type of hypnosis (unless you're afraid of psychaitrists) that will enable you to get over your fear.
Try and confront the situation though.
You havent really provided enough information for me to really go on, so I'm trying my best with what I'm given. Maybe if you send a message to my inbox and specify the phobia, i'll be able to better the advice.

It's pretty much like, needles, doctors and Hospitals or just anything in the medical feild. But I have confronted it and I know it shouldn't be that seriouse, but for some reason I still have the same problem. It got worse as I got older and started effecting me everyday. In highschool I started having panic attacks and could never sit through class... I ended up failing cause I just couldn't be there.. I didn't really get why. Somehow I learned to calm myself down a lot and it has been working, I just need a little bit of time to get use to new situations, but now i'm doing a lot better, the random panic attacks stopped all together.. by I guess, me training myself, if that makes sence.
But when it comes back to some sort of medical whatever, it starts all over again, I could just pass out from someone simply talking about any of that stuff.
I know it's weird, and I have a really hard time talking about this problem, but thanks :-)

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