by Staff writer
A adult woman has spoken out most her crippling fright of pregnancy which has terms her hundreds of pounds inwards pregnancy tests in addition to left her unable to expression at friends' scan pictures online.
Lizzie Doxsey, 39, keeps a stash of pregnancy tests past times her bed for when the anxiety gets likewise much in addition to she needs to seat her hear at ease.
She suffers from tokophobia – a medically-recognised fright of pregnancy in addition to childbirth.
Her status is therefore bad she fifty-fifty has nightmares most expecting in addition to feels sick in addition to panic-stricken simply about mums-to-be.
Originally, Lizzie, from Swansea, was doing tests costing £7 to ensure she wasn't pregnant, but therefore she realized Poundland did £1 versions.
She said: "I create the £1 versions instantly – but if they don't alleviate the anxieties, I create the £7 ones.
"People don't ever sympathize tokophobia. They either think it's funny, or acquire offended.
"I experience guilty when it upsets people, because I don't pick out to experience this way.
"I hold a stash of pregnancy tests past times my bed, in addition to whether I've been seeing someone or not, 1 time that seed of incertitude is inwards my mind, I'll receive got to accept 1 to calm down.
"I'm fine simply about older babies or toddlers. It's simply newborns equally they're therefore frail that you lot experience equally if you're going to intermission them. I'm non certain precisely what it is most pregnancy that frightens me.
I think it's the loss of control, almost similar something is invading you lot in addition to taking over your body."
Though she isn't certain precisely where her phobia stems from, Lizzie recalls feeling "uncomfortable" simply about important people equally a youngster.
Over the years, her fears worsened until the real persuasion of childbirth made her experience sick in addition to panicky.
She continued: "I simply couldn't grip the persuasion of something moving simply about within you.
"If at that topographic point was a important individual inwards the same room equally me, I'd postulate to know where they were at all times.
"It's the same variety of panic equally an arachnophobe existence trapped inwards a room amongst a spider."
As her friends reached child-bearing age, Lizzie's fright was worse than ever.
She recalls avoiding 1 pal for the entire nine-month duration of her pregnancy.
Thankfully, the friend understood, but equally to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than of Lizzie's social circle discovered they were expecting, pregnancy became harder to avoid.
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"Pregnancy is meant to hold upward a happy fourth dimension therefore people don't quite sympathize why I'd hold upward afraid of it," she said.
"My Facebook feed is ever filled amongst people sharing scan pictures. It's horrendous, because I never know I'm going to encounter them.
"I unremarkably simply shroud people from my feed for the duration of their pregnancies, but 1 individual kept sharing videos of the infant moving simply about inwards the womb. I couldn't grip seeing that therefore I had to delete them."
Thankfully, over the years Lizzie has learnt to manage her fears.
Though she's never had whatever professional person help, she said when her best friends got pregnant, she couldn't avoid it in addition to therefore had no pick but to human face upward to her phobia.
She's also constitute solace inwards an online back upward grouping for other tokophobia sufferers.
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"I didn't fifty-fifty know at that topographic point was a give-and-take for it until most 10 years ago. My friend Toki was googling her refer in addition to what it meant, in addition to a page most tokophobia came up," she recalled.
"She said, 'Look, Lizzie. My refer way the same affair equally your phobia.'
"It was relief to know at that topographic point was other people similar me out there. It validated my feelings whereas earlier I'd felt ashamed. Now I'm to a greater extent than opened upward amongst talking most it, my fears aren't genuinely equally bad.
"I promise past times sharing my storey people volition sympathize to a greater extent than most tokophobia, in addition to that simply similar whatever fear, there's non ever a rational explanation.
"I'd similar people to seek in addition to think most how they experience when they're confronted past times a serpent or spider in addition to that's how I experience most pregnancy. Just because it's non a mutual fright doesn't arrive whatever less scary."
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A adult woman has spoken out most her crippling fright of pregnancy which has terms her hundreds of pounds inwards pregnancy tests in addition to left her unable to expression at friends' scan pictures online.
Lizzie Doxsey, 39, keeps a stash of pregnancy tests past times her bed for when the anxiety gets likewise much in addition to she needs to seat her hear at ease.
She suffers from tokophobia – a medically-recognised fright of pregnancy in addition to childbirth.
Her status is therefore bad she fifty-fifty has nightmares most expecting in addition to feels sick in addition to panic-stricken simply about mums-to-be.
Originally, Lizzie, from Swansea, was doing tests costing £7 to ensure she wasn't pregnant, but therefore she realized Poundland did £1 versions.
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| Lizzie keeps a stack of tests at abode to remain her anxiety when it gets the amend of her (Photo: PA Real Life) |
She said: "I create the £1 versions instantly – but if they don't alleviate the anxieties, I create the £7 ones.
"People don't ever sympathize tokophobia. They either think it's funny, or acquire offended.
"I experience guilty when it upsets people, because I don't pick out to experience this way.
"I hold a stash of pregnancy tests past times my bed, in addition to whether I've been seeing someone or not, 1 time that seed of incertitude is inwards my mind, I'll receive got to accept 1 to calm down.
"I'm fine simply about older babies or toddlers. It's simply newborns equally they're therefore frail that you lot experience equally if you're going to intermission them. I'm non certain precisely what it is most pregnancy that frightens me.
I think it's the loss of control, almost similar something is invading you lot in addition to taking over your body."
Though she isn't certain precisely where her phobia stems from, Lizzie recalls feeling "uncomfortable" simply about important people equally a youngster.
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| Lizzie remembers feeling uncomfortable simply about important people equally a youngster (Photo: PA Real Life) |
Over the years, her fears worsened until the real persuasion of childbirth made her experience sick in addition to panicky.
She continued: "I simply couldn't grip the persuasion of something moving simply about within you.
"If at that topographic point was a important individual inwards the same room equally me, I'd postulate to know where they were at all times.
"It's the same variety of panic equally an arachnophobe existence trapped inwards a room amongst a spider."
As her friends reached child-bearing age, Lizzie's fright was worse than ever.
She recalls avoiding 1 pal for the entire nine-month duration of her pregnancy.
Thankfully, the friend understood, but equally to a greater extent than in addition to to a greater extent than of Lizzie's social circle discovered they were expecting, pregnancy became harder to avoid.
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| Lizzie, pictured amongst her friend Carly, who she unfollowed during her pregnancy (Photo: PA Real Life) |
"Pregnancy is meant to hold upward a happy fourth dimension therefore people don't quite sympathize why I'd hold upward afraid of it," she said.
"My Facebook feed is ever filled amongst people sharing scan pictures. It's horrendous, because I never know I'm going to encounter them.
"I unremarkably simply shroud people from my feed for the duration of their pregnancies, but 1 individual kept sharing videos of the infant moving simply about inwards the womb. I couldn't grip seeing that therefore I had to delete them."
Thankfully, over the years Lizzie has learnt to manage her fears.
Though she's never had whatever professional person help, she said when her best friends got pregnant, she couldn't avoid it in addition to therefore had no pick but to human face upward to her phobia.
She's also constitute solace inwards an online back upward grouping for other tokophobia sufferers.
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"I didn't fifty-fifty know at that topographic point was a give-and-take for it until most 10 years ago. My friend Toki was googling her refer in addition to what it meant, in addition to a page most tokophobia came up," she recalled.
"She said, 'Look, Lizzie. My refer way the same affair equally your phobia.'
"It was relief to know at that topographic point was other people similar me out there. It validated my feelings whereas earlier I'd felt ashamed. Now I'm to a greater extent than opened upward amongst talking most it, my fears aren't genuinely equally bad.
"I promise past times sharing my storey people volition sympathize to a greater extent than most tokophobia, in addition to that simply similar whatever fear, there's non ever a rational explanation.
"I'd similar people to seek in addition to think most how they experience when they're confronted past times a serpent or spider in addition to that's how I experience most pregnancy. Just because it's non a mutual fright doesn't arrive whatever less scary."
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