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Originally Posted by BudFox
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.
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How awful. What a frightening experience that must be for a child. I can imagine that would leave anyone more than a little spooked.
Your adult experience rings true to me. The word "Invasive" really got me. I guess I've never been able to stomach that, as a patient, you're asked and just
expected to do all this **** that it would not be even remotely okay to ask of you in any other situation. Invasive questions, invasive requests, invasive procedures...and if you respond with anything less than pleasant compliance you're automatically "difficult."
I could rant for days.
Anyway, thanks again for your responses. Hope you're doing well.