No, no. Phobias are unreasonable fears. For instance, being afraid to be in the MRI machine even though you've done before and you know that, since you're not a robot, it won't hurt you.

Fear of needles, particularly unskillfully/unluckily employed ones, is perfectly reasonable. (And I sympathize with it considerably. Boy howdy, have I had some fishing expeditions. One weird side benefit of losing a kidney: they're not allowed to give me MRI contrast any more, so I no longer have to combine my two least favorite medical activities, getting an MRI and having an IV line put in.)

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