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by Anonymous on February 1st, 2009
I have vasovagal and I am currently studying to become a doctor, astonishing, I know, someone who used to faint from the mere sight of blood now surrounded by it daily. In order to overcome my fainting, with constantly affected my life (at blood tests, when exposed to accidents, etc) I followed a rigid plan of desensitizing myself to blood. In order to do this I pushed myself to lay down and and watch hours of surgeries and look at graphic images etc. I started small googling "stitches," moving on to cataract surgery, plastic surgery, and eventually the most graphic show "ER true trauma." From there I worked to expose myself to other bloody situations, when my little sister had a nose bleed I was sure to go over and look, at blood tests I would watch, after my mom had surgery I looked at her open wounds. The most important part of this process was remembering deep calm breathing. By slowing down my heart beat and eventually becoming so used to seeing blood I overcame vasovagal. This made a lovely essay for college admissions, and I realized that this goal was attainable after fainting at age 13 and speaking the the doctor at the ER, who had overcame vasovagal as well.
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