I’m no longer afraid of wrists

I know the following post might sound silly to someone who isn’t afraid of wrists. You can read it if you’re interested. Otherwise I’d advise you to just scroll on to the next post haha.



I just saw that someone liked all my carpophobia posts. This reminded me that I should give an update, so it can be there in the carphophobia tag too.



It took me quite some time to be able to say it, but I overcame my fear of wrists! And I’m damn proud of myself.



We studied ‘exposure therapy’ in one of my psychology courses at university. I immediately decided that this was the way I was going to help myself. It took me a while (about 1 or 1,5 year), but I did it.



I’ve had carpophobia for quite a few years and I’d sort of grown accustomed to having it. I’d become a pro at avoiding looking at or touching wrists, so it hardly ever happened that I was exposed to them any more. I thought it was all okay and I was just happy that I didn’t have any worse issues than my silly fear of wrists.



However, now that I am no longer afraid of them, life is actually easier. When someone grabs my wrist, I no longer frantically pull away from them. When my wrist is itching, I can just scratch it (even just saying that would have given me a shiver before!). And when a picture of a wrist tattoo pops up on my tumblr feed, I no longer have to ask a friend to scroll past it. They all seem like silly little things, but when you add them up you can see that this fear does interfere with your everyday life. That’s why I’m so happy that I’m over it now!



If you want to know exactly how I overcame my fear using exposure therapy, just message me! It would make me really happy if I would be able to help others too. :)