Slightly Crazy Phobia

Almost complete with my first week of p90x. Tonight I'm doing Kenpo and tomorrow is stretch. I like everything so far except the Yoga X. I'm already not the biggest yoga fan because it's so slow and just muscle control but it's an hour and a half long. That's a long time doing something I don't really care for. Maybe I'll learn to love it?

I'm so ready for spring break to get here!! Even though we are going back to Destin for the third year in a row I have high expectations. This year we got our own house across the street on scenic 98. It has it's own pool and everything. Can't believe I've already been in school a month.. the time goes by fast but days go by slow it feels like.

part of the spring break '11 group

Found out in my abnormal psychology class that I have "blood injection phobia". Yes and I'm going to nursing school hahaha. It's a biological based phobia that runs mostly in families (my dad has it) and it is different from other phobias because normally when you are "afraid" your heart rate speeds up and your sympathetic nervous system kicks in. With blood injection phobia (sometimes) the sight of blood causes your heart rate to drop so low that you feint (or get pretty close). Turns out the reason this happens is because throughout time and "survival of the fittest" if you were in war and injured, if your heart rate slowed, the slowing of the heart would slow blood loss, so you live longer. Kinda cool my body does it to protect me (even though I don't need protecting in most all situations). But with most any phobia it can be cured by being around it enough so I'll be visiting my mother in her work to watch some surgeries. Even though it's embarrassing it's still kinda cool that my body will do crazy things to keep me alive. 

Just to clarify, blood is not something that "scares" me. I just sometimes have a reaction that I can't control (yet). And I'm not afraid of needles (3 allergy shots a week). Just as a point of clarification.

xoxo