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Originally Posted by Argonautomobile
Well, it's certainly possible, but I guess I'll never know for sure. I've no plans to go off the medication anytime soon, but I thank you for offering a perspective other than "See? The pills were working. Keep taking them, dumbass," which is pretty much what everyone else told me.
No worries, you didn't pry. It's sort of refreshing to have someone actually ask. People tend not to, as though the prevailing attitude is something like "Nobody likes the doctor. Man up and deal with it." Sorry about your own phobia--what do you think causes it? Either way, it's a *****.
Thanks again.
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Yea, I can see that, people conflating the idea of just not liking going to the doctor with a more serious fear with specific roots. For me I had surgery when I was 5yo wherein I think i was left alone in some terrifying way that left me kinda spooked. But on a more rational level, my adult experiences with mainstream medicine over the last several years have left me fearful of the whole biz, because of the basic paradigm, which I find to be mostly insane, dangerous, invasive, crude, and fanatically reliant on synthetic drugs. It looks sophisticated and hi tech, but most doctors are like cavemen, hitting every patient with the same hammer. I could rant for days...
I have a visceral response to conventional doctors offices, large clinics, hospitals. I feel threatened in their midst. These do not feel like places for healing or health, rather they are temples to disease. And they also feel inhuman, with a priority on processing customers through the system.