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LadyShade
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- Joined
- Apr 14, 2009
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Hi everyone,
...I'm a 23 year old woman who went to a downright sadistic lady dentist at 7 and has been once since (as an emergency - I had an abcess ). I'm so relieved to find other people who know what it's like to have a panic attack in the waiting room, etc...
The lady dentist...that woman was a ! She hit my gag reflex, which made me . That made me cry. She tried to send my Mum out of the room and got snappier and snappier the more scared I acted. In the end Mum got me out of there and lodged a complaint about the woman. I don't think she liked kids. And there began The Fear.
I used to have a needle phobia, but overcame it through the use of meditation techniques after I was very ill last year and had to have a lot of blood tests and a couple of injections. So at least one aspect of the dentist is less scary now.
However, I'm still afraid of the pain, the loss of control, the embarrassment (my teeth aren't in a happy place, I am convinced I'll get some awful lecture and feel even more inadequate re: tooth health than I already do), the possibility of a panic attack (had three when going to have the abcess treated), my twitchy gag reflex, and, most of all, that the dentist will once again be a torturer in disguise - like some creepy villain from a Roald Dahl book or a Japanese horror movie (The Ring - Japanese people really know how to do terrifying!)
It's so great that there's an online community for this - it gives me hope that one day I'll walk into a dentist's surgery and come out with a (healthy) smile on my face.
Because at the moment I'm on the verge of tears just thinking about it. Embarrassing to admit, but I guess you folks out there understand the power of The Fear.
Thanks for reading my relieved blah-ing!
LadyShade x
...I'm a 23 year old woman who went to a downright sadistic lady dentist at 7 and has been once since (as an emergency - I had an abcess ). I'm so relieved to find other people who know what it's like to have a panic attack in the waiting room, etc...
The lady dentist...that woman was a ! She hit my gag reflex, which made me . That made me cry. She tried to send my Mum out of the room and got snappier and snappier the more scared I acted. In the end Mum got me out of there and lodged a complaint about the woman. I don't think she liked kids. And there began The Fear.
I used to have a needle phobia, but overcame it through the use of meditation techniques after I was very ill last year and had to have a lot of blood tests and a couple of injections. So at least one aspect of the dentist is less scary now.
However, I'm still afraid of the pain, the loss of control, the embarrassment (my teeth aren't in a happy place, I am convinced I'll get some awful lecture and feel even more inadequate re: tooth health than I already do), the possibility of a panic attack (had three when going to have the abcess treated), my twitchy gag reflex, and, most of all, that the dentist will once again be a torturer in disguise - like some creepy villain from a Roald Dahl book or a Japanese horror movie (The Ring - Japanese people really know how to do terrifying!)
It's so great that there's an online community for this - it gives me hope that one day I'll walk into a dentist's surgery and come out with a (healthy) smile on my face.
Because at the moment I'm on the verge of tears just thinking about it. Embarrassing to admit, but I guess you folks out there understand the power of The Fear.
Thanks for reading my relieved blah-ing!
LadyShade x