Hi,
i just started researching my phobia because i was wondering if it
had a name or if it was just me and im crazy paranoid. well ive read
a couple of other peoples posts and i figure im not the only one.
your story sounded really similar to mine (except for the toothpick
thing)

ever since i was little i was scared of something happening to my
wrists. i have no idea why but it makes me sick to think about all
the things that could go wrong if you just stick your arm out of the
car or lay down with your wrists facing upwards. the under part is
the only thing that scares me. What you said about the people that
show you there wrists is so common for me.

When i told my friend Jessica about my phobia she showed me her wrist
and was like "Aubri, come on whats so freaky about this?" then she
was like touching it. (she is a really good friend she just didnt no
what she was doing to me)

i felt immedietly faint, but she still didnt get it. then when i was
like wisper yelling at her my other friends asked what was going on
(it was a lunch time in the cafateria) so she tells them (witch kinda
made me mad cause i dont usually tell people about it cause....well
you know) then they start pushing up there sleaves and extending the
wrists (underside up) to me and i started freaking out and bending my
wrists inward, hiding my face and yelling at them to stop.

well of course they think its funny (not a joke, they were laughing
at me) so they keep doing it and start doing other stuff (i think you
get the idea so im not gonna go through the anxiety of explaining it)
so finaly when my eyes get all watery and i was all light headed
ready to pass out, they saw my face and stopped. Jessica said sorry
after she saw that i could barely walk with out leaning against the
wall (we had to go to class, and of course with my luck i had health
next where my jerk teacher LOVES to show body diagrams)

well i dont no of any way to make it better other that finding wrist
bands (i dont have a really big problem with whereing bracelets or
anything like that most of the time) ive tryed looking away but it
feels like peopls wrists draw my eye like a magnet. i am ALWAYS
wereing a jacket (not sure if thats another phobia) but i just find
that i feel alot safer wearing lairs.

sorry if i made this to long but ive never actualy examined my phobia
before. i dont no if anything ive said really makes sense or helps
you but i wanna thank you for posting cause yours did help me.

-aubri


--- In unusualphobias@yahoogroups.com, "simkitten13"
<simkitten13@...> wrote:
>
> When I was about 8 or 9 my brother got angry and slammed his hand
on
> top of a science project I had made out of toothpicks and
Styrofoam.
> By some strange fate one of the toothpick just so happened to break
> in half and have one side fly right completely into my brother's
> wrist. The toothpick was not in any way visible, it had completely
> vanished into his wrist. It was logged in between two major veins
and
> an artery. We weren't for sure it was in there until he had surgery.
(
> wood doesn't show up on x-rays, at least not one that small) You
> would think I would be afraid of toothpick and I am, but it's not a
> phobia. No, my phobia is wrists. I cannot look at my own or anyone
> else's(you'd be surprised how many times wrists are shown in movies
> and on TV). No one can touch my wrists and I can't touch anyone
> else's. Even though I understand where my phobia stems from and
tell
> myself it's irrational, it doesn't help. I always keep a jacket
with
> me in case I need to cover my own. I hate bracelets and watches. I
> know many of you understand how much a phobia really effects your
> life. For me, a trip to the doctors is afoul, because I know
they're
> going to check my pulse and to do that they immediately reach for
my
> wrist and usually the nurse is different every time or simply
doesn't
> remember about my phobia, I have to retell it to them and relive
the
> thought of terror I get every time. And then they look at me like
I'm
> a freak and it's so shameful. But the thing I hate the most is when
I
> tell people and they react, not by shock or disbelief, but by
showing
> me their wrist and asking" So this scares you?" Ugh, I mean what is
> that? So if I told you I was claustrophobic, would you drag me to a
> closet, push me in, and ask "So this scares you?" No, you wouldn't.
> Honestly, curiosity is fine, but that's just mean.Honestly,
curiosity
> is fine, but that's just mean. Do any of you get that reaction to
> your phobia? Even if
> I tell them it's a PHOBIA, MEANING IT FRIGHTENS ME, they still do
> that. Well, anyway, that's my story. What's yours?
>