Long story story a young guy working at my company was helping another shorter coworker get something up high.
When he was doing it he super cut two of his fingers wide open. I went to help him since blood doesn’t bother me and I see blood all over. It’s really bad. Then everyone starts talking about how he needs to go to the hospital and get shots and stitches. Now I do have a huge phobia of needles. And I go to my desk and I start feeling light headed. I start shaking and I enter tunnel vision. My breathing gets fast and I’m sweating a lot.
I rest my head in my hoodie on my desk. I try to google how to help myself but I feel too faint. Then I do look it up and it says I need to lay or sit down, good, I’m doing that. And it says I need to raise my blood pressure, a stress ball works well. I don’t have that so I start grabbing my jacket with two hands like it’s a stress ball.
I’m feeling better now although it’s like my body can still remember what it felt like to be in that state of shock. This is the first time something like this has ever happened to me. And I worry that my fear of needles has now spilled over into blood? Maybe it’s because someone else was bleeding? Maybe I am just too empathetic and when my body thought about it happening to me it freaked out?
TL;DR some guy at work cut his fingers open bad, coworkers kinda freaked out, I freaked out and had a panic attack/fainting spell.
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