Short Stuff: Fainting At The Sight Of Blood

Stuff You Should Know

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Society & Culture

4.6 • 79.3K Ratings

🗓️ 11 May 2022

⏱️ 14 minutes

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As many as 15% of people faint when they see blood! And it’s not just blood that gets them. It can be an injury or even a needle. Learn about this fascinating phobia in this episode.

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0:00.0	There's so much news happening around the world that we're somehow supposed to stay on top of.
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0:16.4	I'm Wes Kosova.
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0:34.4	Hey and welcome to the short stuff I'm Josh and there's Chuck and here's Jerry.
0:39.0	And if you fainted the sight of blood or even discussions about it you should probably
0:42.4	stop listening now.
0:44.8	That's right because it is a thing.
0:47.2	It doesn't bother me.
0:48.3	I don't love the sight of blood but I'm not too easily grossed out.
0:53.3	I can watch a surgery on TV and I'm fine.
0:56.8	I like riding naked in blood.
0:58.7	That's how much I love blood.
1:00.2	Oh good lord.
1:01.2	Covering my entire gigantic body.
1:06.4	So anyway because I can do that I clearly don't have Chuck, a particular phobia about
1:12.8	fainting at the sight of blood and that's really what the whole thing is coming down
1:15.8	to as we'll see.
1:18.0	But fainting itself and this particular kind of fainting and this is a thing like people
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