I'm sorry that you find airport security screening triggering. I find it extremely unpleasant and difficult too. But I won't let it stop me from flying. Personally I'd pick the scanner as I'd find that less invasive than a full physical pat down - the person seeing the image, see's your body outline, but not enough to identify you as a person. I find it kind of impersonal really. We have those scanners at my airport too.

When I've had to go throught the full body pat down, i found it helped a bit to try and disscotiate, and pretend it wasn't me that was being touched, it was just something happenning to someone, but it wasn't touching the real me.

Good luck with your future flying.

--splitimage