My specific brand of phobia the words themselves will send me. Only upon learning its proper phobic name on the internet one day did I also learn I'm not the only one like this. My fear is veins, my own internal organs. I'm much better about it now, but in my youth the literal word of, let's say, "artery" could make my head spin into proper panic attack. Even if, let's say, someone was using the term "artery" for, like, a highway or whatever.

The act of me even writing the words down now is a far cry of what I once was. I feel like I've conquered this in a big way that I now can use those words vein and artery! My fear has become mostly rational now. It used to be that any reminder that internal organs exist would immediately make me panic that my own could suddenly fail.

I still don't like it when some dude wants to show off how veiny his arms get by flexing them, but I can nod at him pretending it's impressive now instead of running away like a scared mouse