Talk:Carpophobia/@comment-173.206.159.149-20200527192854

I actually have bad carpophobia, and mostly I want to describe it to people who don't have it (In the ways I have carpophobia). Carpophobia is the fear of wrists, (and in my case, veins, etc in the wrist).

Wrists have always been a sensitive subject to me, the way the skin feels, and the fact that you can see veins in them are disturbing to me. I see people all the time leaning their hands to their head with their wrist exposed, and it's a mix of horror and disgust in my head. I most of the time just tell people to stop doing that so I can feel better, without telling them I have carpophobia. This is general has gotten so bad that I only wear long sleeved shirts, and sweaters, hoodies, pretty much anything that doesn't expose my wrists.

I also hate the idea of Wrist-cutting and checking pulse. from you're wrist. I simply can't even imagine someone even checking their pulse doing that and not be slightly unsettled by doing it. God, don't get me even started with Wrist-cutting.

Overall I wont be very unsettled if you show me you're wrist. I have decided to tell this to people now, I only kept this as a secret younger despite not even knowing why I had this. When I bring this up to people, They ask me a good question, "Why though". And it's very complex. Some assholes who had heard of this run up to me and show me their wrists inching it to my face.

Overall all I have to say is that, I understand what it is like to have Carpophobia. And in total you are not weird if you have it (depending on how you treat it). I have gotten better with dealing with this however.

In total, I hate Carpophobia, it sounds so dumb but yet it goes deeper even for this post to understand.

- Amber.