Not sure if this qualifies as a phobia...

[glazeria]

I was talking to my T today about my ED and I confessed that if I start to feel my thighs touching I start to not be able to breathe. I become very anxious because I can't seem to catch my breath. She said that this may be some sort of phobia but I'm not really sure...

The short amount of time when my thighs would not touch no matter how hard I squeezed my legs together I was close to being put in the hospital. Would you guys say that what I experience is a phobia? What happens when you have to face your phobia?

[RadioSilence]

It's definitely an irrational fear, but I think that it's unhelpful to treat it like a separate condition, since it's so clearly part of your ED. Facing a phobia is difficult, but there are procedures that your therapist can take you through to make it easier.