Talk:Papyrophobia/@comment-111.220.173.27-20170604042008

Whenever I am around stacks of paper, I totally lose control, and often that leads to debilitating panic attacks. I will usually get pain on my middle knuckles, even if there are no paper cuts at all. I will often mistake the lines on my knuckles for cuts, and begin to severely panic. This is both extremely embarrassing and frightening. When I do get a paper cut, I have been told that I go completely white, and then I begin to hyperventilate, leading to me having a panic attack. I usually cannot look at my hands properly for days afterwards in fear of seeing the cut. once I think of stacks of paper, I just begin to freak out instantly. because it is a strange phobia, people see it as funny, and something to make fun of. this usually means people will 'accidentally' drop their books on my hand, or run pieces of paper between their fingers or on their tongue. this makes me very self-conscious, and at one point I couldn't go to school for a few days in fear of someone doing something like that again.