Talk:Scyphophobia/@comment-176.32.29.177-20200620094429

One summer when I was about 11 years old I was swimming at this beach that I usually go to during the summer. I saw a huge branch floating in the water before diving but didn't mind it too much. After 10 seconds of swimming, I felt this insanely intense pain localized on my right bicep, it felt like someone stabbed my arm open with a flaming knife. My first thought was "damn, that branch was really pointy". I immediately swam back to the coast crying in agonizing pain. I later realized, after telling my parents, that a whole jellyfish splattered on my arm. The pain lasted several days, while I experienced nightmares about it. A couple of weeks afterward I had a delayed hypersensitivity reaction which caused many blisters on my bicep. After that stage was over, I was left with a jellyfish-shaped scar for the following two years until the skin cells completely regenerated, and a permanent mental scar which caused me to have severe panic attacks whenever I saw one of those fuckers. It's been 9 years since the incident and I still haven't gotten over that phobia.