A case study of acute phobia

Xiao Qiang is 18 years old. He is tall and burly, but he has a strange habit. He is afraid of seeing sharp things, such as needles, toothpicks and refills. His classmates laughed at him as a coward, but he didn't know what was going on. When he sees sharp things, he feels as if they will stab his eyes, and his eyes will feel very uncomfortable. Later, I consulted a psychologist and learned that he had acute phobia.

There are indeed some people in life who are ashamed of anything with sharp points. They are very afraid of sharp tools, such as knives and scissors or objects with sharp features. These people can't look straight at anything that looks sharp, such as needles, fruit knives, freshly sharpened pencils, scissors, tacks, or even branches in paintings. This is a typical agoraphobia.

People with acute phobia, no matter whether those sharp things are used to hurt people or have the ability to hurt people, will feel uncomfortable when they see these things, and then they will have unnecessary worries, such as worrying about being poked by sharp objects and hurting eyes, fingernails and other places that will feel extremely painful after being poked, so they often try to turn their heads away from seeing those things.