Injectable phobia is inherited in the family, including heredity such as having a strong vagus nerve reflex.
Injectable phobias are more hereditary than other phobias of animals, lightning, heights, etc. Many people with acrophobia have a strong fear of injections in their families and relatives.
Heredity of an injection phobia is associated with something called a vagus nerve reflex. Vascular vagus reflexes are a phenomenon in which the tone of the vascular wall is relaxed reflexively through the vagus nerve when you feel anxious, painful, tired, etc. If your blood pressure drops, bradycardia, etc. occur and you suddenly feel your blood pulling from your head, or if it is heavy, you may lose your consciousness.
Since the strength of the vascular vagus nerve reflex is basically determined by the gene, people who feel anxiety or fear about the injection are more likely to have a vascular vagus nerve reflex during or immediately after the injection, and the discomfort increases the fear of the injection.
Also, according to psychoanalyst Freud, the onset of phobia involves a complex found in childhood. Freud gives an example of a boy who is afraid of horses as an explanation. Fearing that his father would punish him for his yearning for his mother, the boy chose to fear horses instead of his father because he could not express his fear for his father.
Why don’t you take a similar explanation about the fear of injections, for example, if a father is a doctor and the fear of injection comes from a conscious image of a father’s yearning for a mother?In fact, you need to look deep in psychoanalysis like Freud did about a boy afraid of a horse.
The basic treatment for acrophobia is getting used to it.
There are basically two ways to deal with scary things: avoid them or get used to them. Injection is essential for vaccination, medical examination, and drug treatment, so it is very disadvantageous to take care of your health if you can’t get it from fear of injection. You should get an injection as expected.
In general, the treatment of phobia is based on getting used to it by treating the subject of fear through psychotherapy. Medication is also necessary when anxiety is strong or depression is hidden behind fear.
If you do not like injection, do you have something that does not leave your head when you are about to get a shot, that you skipped school or work on the day of the vaccination, or that you could not get away without drinking alcohol to control the anxiety or fear of the injection?If you think the fear of injection is too much, please consult in psychiatry or neurology.