Phobia Success Stories

Trypanophobia is a fear of needles. Paralympic tennis player Abbie suffers with a neurological wasting disease, therefore she had to be subjected to a multitude of needle-related experiments, which has exacerbated her fear of needles.

Tomophobia is a fear of medical interventions or upcoming surgical procedures. Liz Hughes has had the phobia all her life. She was never able to have any children and had to adopt, due to not wanting to be subjected to any medical intervention.

Trypanophobia is a fear of needles and iatrophobia is a fear of doctors or medical tests. Alice, aged 22, has a phobia of anything medical. It is so debilitating for her that she faints at the sight of medical instruments. It has now transferred to a fear of fainting itself.

Trypanophobia is a phobia of needles, noscomephobia is an intense fear of hospitals. Sally-Anne fear fear of needles and hospitals has prevented her from having the lifesaving treatment she needs for stage 3 ovarian cancer. She has refused surgery and medicine to help her, as it would have had to have been administered by injection.

Tomophobia is a fear of medical interventions and trypanophobia is a fear of needles. Carrie Rush was diagnosed with breast cancer in 2018, but due to her phobia, she’s unable to receive the treatment that she needs.