I typically don't freak over injuries. Of course, I haven't seen anything on par with EMS or the military.

If it's family, during the event, I won't freak. If it's serious, then projecting the effects of future life would cause me to freak out. Then reality and the need to carry on set in.

I dislocated my knee the day the Skyrim gameplay trailer came out. Single most painful thing that has ever happend to me. Screamed like a [censored] for about five minutes straight. Does that count?

/waits for arrow jokes

...you know I never thought of that until now... I'm not sure if I should laugh or be concerned...

I hope he knows it's very rude to point!

As for me, well, I nearly cut my left index finger off once. Was hanging by a piece of muscle and skin, and I didn't feel a darn thing....that is until the adrenaline, endorphins, and novacaine stopped kicking in an hour after I got stitches. My left finger still occasionally feels sore at the site of the wound, and I don't think these scars will disappear anytime soon.

My finger hurts

Today is the day I die

Between poor health since birth, being prone to anxiety attacks, a phobia of blood, and being the king of pessimism (even as an 8-year-old I was positive I wouldn't live through my teens), I've got the market pretty well cornered on freaking out over injury. Experiencing some genuinely reasonable times to be very worried has not stopped me from deciding that every time my toe hurts, it means I've randomly contracted advanced type 2 diabetes without any prior symptoms and it will have to be amputated.

I'm the kind of guy who will fracture a finger and only go to the hospital if it starts swelling like a balloon. Though if I sliced a finger off I'd probably do something about it.

I managed to slice my knee with a broken metal thermos. Taped a wad of paper towels to it until it started to scab over. Probably should have gone to the hospital to get stitches. Now I've got a scar an inch long and quarter inch wide.

Chicks digs scars.

Also to add, got drunk one night, got into a fight with a wall, won after 15minutes on constantly attacking it, and the morning after, my hand was swollen something fierce. Didn't hurt, didn't think I needed to go to the hospital, but everyone in my fraternity told me to get to the hospital asap, along with the university nurses. Ended up it was just really swollen.

I need there to be something broken or excessively bleeding before I get too concerned. My grandpa broke his hip and decided he'd wait a day before going to the hospital thinking it may not really be broken, but just hurting a lot. The next day he could move even less than the previous day. Needless to say, his hip was broken but he was just being a stubborn old farmer.

*Points to thread tags*

I'm okay with cuts and lacerations. Haven't had a broken bone yet, a hairline crack in my foot at most. I didn't freak out at anything. Not even when there's blood streaming down my leg. I'd maybe freak out a bit if I broke something. There was this once I fell in gym practicing handstand walk, got a 'whopping great hole', as my mom put it, just under my left eye. Had to have stitches, but since I didn't get a chance to have a look at it I guess I didn't freak out. When I was a kid I was playing catching at school, and got a scraqed elbow and knee. Dripping blood all over the pavement, my friend(the catcher) helped me hobble back to the sick bay to have it patched up. I still went for tuition and played football after that.

tl;dr I'll have to try breaking something to see if I freak out.

I've never really freaked out at an injury I've had. But then, I think the worst injury so far has been a fractured toe. Maybe the slight LCL tear - had to wear a brace for a week or two. The only time I was ever hospitalized was a false alarm (a painful lymph node infection masquerading as acute apendicitis).

How I have managed to limit the damage to that extent so far is a mystery given that I am both hyperactive and clumsy. The world may never know.

i don't go to the doctor unless something needs to be sewn back on or placed back into a natural orientation.

if i need stitches i do them my self, any one can thread a wound as long as blood doesn't bother them and having a doctor do it is insanely overpriced.

[censored] yes. I know it's not really an injury, but I felt a lump once and while I didn't "freak out" like screaming and fainting, it's definitely very scary and I was freaking out inside.

If something like that happens I usually go to a doctor first and then they tell me if it is serious or not. After that I decide whether or not to freak out. Psychologically, you can make pain worse than it really is. It is better not to freak out about it until you know what it is that you are actually dealing with.

For example- I thought something was majorly wrong with my chest. Come to find out it was only a muscle strain. Before I knew that, I was freaking out, my breathing was short and I thought the pain in my chest was causing it. When my doctor told me that everything was fine and to just take it easy, the pain subsided and my breathing became normal. Same goes with anything even if it is blood related.

I did get a dart stuck in my knee once, but I guess that doesn't really count either.

My reaction seems to depend on how much I think about it rather than its seriousness. Not thinking is good.

i had a blow dart gun once, the darts had plastic nub tips. one of my buddies shot my bare leg with it and started laughing, i looked at my leg and sure enough it was in my calf. dull plastic tip or not, dart guns are pretty powerful.

I've once cut off a chunk of finger skin (almost to the bone) with scissors and freaked out, mostly because of the blood. I never knew so much blood could fit in such a little finger. And by cut off, I mean snapped off a whole piece of skin, not just made a cut.
My fingers aren't the luckiest. I once got another finger smashed by a door which broke off half of my nail. I didn't really freak out, but I thought it looked quite disgusting.

I think I've done that, years ago. I've also accumulated a bunch of little burn (and miscellaneous) scars on my hands/fingers, so I think I can say my digits don't get off easy, either.

OP: Depends on how you define "freak." A serious injury I'd be likely to at least mutter/chant a lot of "f that hurts, f that hurts." But it's about expressing physical pain, not "freaking out" from the injury itself. Partly because I'd probably be in shock, too.

So, I'm not a super-stoic type, but I'm also not a panicky, weepy, wailing type. Hate hospitals and have to be practically dying before I'll go. "It's just a fever, I'll be fine" is likely going to get me killed one day.

i did freak out once, the first time i had the wind knocked out of me. was running around a pool and slipped and slammed right onto my chest, forced the air out of my lungs and stunned my abdominal muscles i guess. I could breath in but i couldn't exhale, it was like this for 5 minutes maybe even a bit longer.

i thought i was going to die. my parents and uncle were watching a movie, and i keep asking them to help me but they were ignoring me. i started crying because i thought i was going to die.

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Cuts and broken bones don't freak me out. Losing a finger would. And, like mirglof, I start panicking when I lose my breath.

I've unfortunately been a witness to far too many accidents (and I've been in quite a few myself) so there isn't much that freaks me out anymore. The last time I remember freaking out was when the person in the accident went into cardiac arrest and stopped breathing.

If I could see me bone sticking out I would have a freakout. Blood can make me nauseous and sick but I don't mind it so much. It's like how I don't mind needles, just my body minds them and makes me go all funny

You just don't want to admit that the Skyrim trailer made you squee like a little girl.

For me, probably when there's enough blood getting outside my skin that it's flowing/dripping. But certain 'minor' injuries, like papercuts (just writing it made me cringe) also freak me out.