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1. He asked another series of questions and said that given the limited amount of time he could give me he would not be able to dig deep enough to find the cause of my phobia; but it was possible that I could be successfully desensitised, which should work well enough for my purposes, and we started the process the following week

2. Several years back Doctor S had desensitised my fear of needles, and perhaps this small advantage allowed me to visit our GP