Phobias....
They are great things to talk about but not great things too have.
Fears are bad a enough but phobias a much worse.
I don't think - or more correctly DIDN'T think - that I had any phobias at all as I had conquered all of my fears.
( Fears can be fought and beaten but phobias are another thing altogether ! ).
While I was working at my trade ( and before I went into the civil service ), I was often asked to go into small places to work, ( under floors and into small workspaces etc' ), and I didn't think that I had any claustrophobia, ( the worst phobia of them all ! ).
I didn't think that I had this phobia until I had to go for an MRI scan.
This machine...which hums & clicks... is wrapped around a long narrow tunnel that has a narrow bench on it for passing the patient into.
I lay down and they strapped me in, ( well at least my head ), so that I would not - could not - move it. I was then passed down the length of this two-foot wide tube and into the bowels of the machine.
( Incidentally, the nurse/technician gave me a bulb to hold before I went in.....suspicious that ! ).
Anyway.... I went into the bowels of the machine and immediately began to feel uncomfortable. I tried to fight the feeling off but couldn't. I went into a cold-sweat panic and pressed the bulb. There was about a second and a half delay before they got me out but by that time I was in terror and soaking in sweat.
THAT....my dearies...is phobia...NOT fear !
*SHUDDER* 😱
Originally posted by Moo Cow
i had to have a mri on my head 😄, but it was a open mri, so not as bad as a normal one that looks like a drainage tube! those are freaky looking ✅
I think that that was a CT scan or a PET scan as these scanners are only like large do-nuts that are about a foot deep. ( You can put a whole person into an MRI machine ).
Incidentally... I was getting my head looked too, ( many people had told me to do this in the past 🙄 ), and after I had had the bad reaction to the MRI scan they told me that I could tolerate the CT scan. I did and incidentally my head was as-sound-as-a-pound ! 😄
Originally posted by Papaumau
I think that that was a CT scan or a PET scan as these scanners are only like large do-nuts that are about a foot deep. ( You can put a whole person into an MRI machine ).Incidentally... I was getting my head looked too, ( many people had told me to do this in the past 🙄 ), and after I had had the bad reaction to the MRI scan they told me that I could tolerate the CT scan. I did and incidentally my head was as-sound-as-a-pound ! 😄
no, i went through an open mri 🙂
^ it look like that
there was nothing wrong with my head either 😱 i had these chronic headaches and we found it was because i was allergic to something in my classroom 😛
Sorry Moo Cow....It is obvious that you have better technology where you are than we have in darkest Scotland.
Of course you are right as there IS such a thing as an open MRI.
Thanks for informing me of that as MRI scans are much better than CT scans I believe.
I will remember your advice if ever I need to have my head looked again. 😆
Just to show that I am as clever as you are here is another open MRI scanner and some pictures of inside my head: 🙄
Yo SS........
( Wow...just noticed that your initials stand for Der Sturm Staffel )......
Anyway... those three fears ARE phobias and I am sure they are really and truly terrifying to you !
They say that you can be de-sensitised to phobias by deliberately facing them under controlled conditions...but I am not so sure.