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| Blood phobia | |
|---|---|
| Other names | Hemophobia |
| Specialty | Psychiatry, clinical psychology |
Blood phobia (also known as hemophobia or hematophobia in American English and haemophobia or haematophobia in British English) is an extreme irrational fear of blood, a type of specific phobia. Severe cases of this fear can cause physical reactions that are uncommon in most other fears, specifically vasovagal syncope (fainting).[1] Similar reactions can also occur with trypanophobia and traumatophobia. For this reason, these phobias are categorized as blood-injection-injury phobia by the DSM-IV.[2] Some early texts refer to this category as "blood-injury-illness phobia."[3]
- ^ The Merck Manual, archived from the original on 2007-05-09, retrieved 2007-05-19
- ^ Lipsitz, JD; Barlow, DH; Mannuzza, S; Hofmann, SG; Fyer, AJ (July 2002), "Clinical features of four DSM-IV-specific phobia subtypes", The Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, 190 (7): 471–8, doi:10.1097/00005053-200207000-00009, PMID 12142850, S2CID 8580337
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