Talk:Blood-injection-injury type phobia

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Planned Contribution to the Page
Hi,

I’m hoping to add to this article going forward, and wanted to share some proposed changes and contributions, as well as some additional sources I’ve located. Generally, I’d like to lengthen the lead paragraph a bit, go through the article to ensure all claims are properly cited, and add some additional information to the various sections. I would also like to add a new section about how this phobia can bar sufferers from working in health-related fields. Let me know your thoughts.

Sources (APA format):

1. Hermann, A., Schäfer, A., Walter, B., Stark, R., Vaitl, D., & Schienle, A. (2007). Diminished medial prefrontal cortex activity in blood-injection-injury phobia. Biological psychology, 75(2), 124-130.

2. Ritz, T., Meuret, A. E., & Ayala, E. S. (2010). The psychophysiology of blood-injection-injury phobia: looking beyond the diphasic response paradigm. International journal of Psychophysiology, 78(1), 50-67.

3. Ayala, E. S., Meuret, A. E., & Ritz, T. (2009). Treatments for blood-injury-injection phobia: a critical review of current evidence. Journal of psychiatric research, 43(15), 1235-1242.

4. Chapman, L. K., & DeLapp, R. C. (2014). Nine session treatment of a blood–injection–injury phobia with manualized cognitive behavioral therapy: An adult case example. Clinical Case Studies, 13(4), 299-312.

5. de Jong, P. J., & Merckelbach, H. (1998). Blood-injection-injury phobia and fear of spiders: Domain specific individual differences in disgust sensitivity. Personality and Individual Differences, 24(2), 153-158.

6. Tolin, D. F., Lohr, J. M., Sawchuk, C. N., & Lee, T. C. (1997). Disgust and disgust sensitivity in blood-injection-injury and spider phobia. Behaviour research and therapy, 35(10), 949-953.

7. Sawchuk, C. N., Lohr, J. M., Tolin, D. F., Lee, T. C., & Kleinknecht, R. A. (2000). Disgust sensitivity and contamination fears in spider and blood–injection–injury phobias. Behaviour Research and Therapy, 38(8), 753-762.

8. Olatunji, B. O., Smits, J. A., Connolly, K., Willems, J., & Lohr, J. M. (2007). Examination of the decline in fear and disgust during exposure to threat-relevant stimuli in blood–injection–injury phobia. Journal of anxiety disorders, 21(3), 445-455.

9. Olatunji, B. O., Williams, N. L., Sawchuk, C. N., & Lohr, J. M. (2006). Disgust, anxiety and fainting symptoms associated with blood-injection-injury fears: a structural model. Journal of Anxiety Disorders, 20(1), 23-41.

10. McAllister, N., Elshtewi, M., Badr, L., Russell, I. F., & Lindow, S. W. (2012). Pregnancy outcomes in women with severe needle phobia. European Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology and Reproductive Biology, 162(2), 149-152.

11. Mohr, D. C., Cox, D., & Merluzzi, N. (2005). Self-injection anxiety training: a treatment for patients unable to self-inject injectable medications. Multiple Sclerosis Journal, 11(2), 182-185.

Emilyc44 (talk) 06:33, 12 February 2018 (UTC)
 * Please use refs per WP:MEDRS for any content that is WP:Biomedical information. Many of these are primary sources and are not OK. Jytdog (talk) 22:16, 12 March 2018 (UTC)

Images
Should there be images of the thing(s) that trigger the phobia on here? User:Natureium appears to think so, whereas I do not, especially since I have a phobia and have come to wikipedia to learn more about it. So I was looking to see what others here thought. Demasu (talk) 22:34, 19 November 2018 (UTC)

I agree with you on this. I shared a link to this page with a friend without noticing the image in the hope of helping them. Now, thanks to the magic of modern messaging services, the image has automatically inserted itself in to the conversation with my friend and the hope of helping them has instead hurt them. Is an image of blood really that illustrative that it is worth this?

I also came here to learn about a phobia I may have, and although I can handle the image it certainly doesn't help. I don't think it adds anything of value; people know what shots are like. I'm going to remove it. I suppose someone could re-add it if they really feel it's important.