Dr. John Lawrence Explains Fear of Going to the Doctor
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- Опубликовано: 27 апр 2015
- UMass Memorial primary care physician, Dr. John Lawrence, explains Fear of Going to the Doctor in this Health Watch segment.
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Everytime I tell someone they just say that the doctors are just trying to help but the fear doent just go away like that..
i'm so scare of going to the hospital that is not normal like i really get anxious i feel literally like i'm going to pass out
I think every American is afraid of going to the hospital. The bill is enormous!
Danielle L yeah that's one reason.
Idk here we have free health care
@@allidoiscry4119 samee
And the risk of infection and medical malpractice
Facts. 💯
After so many bad experiences, being misdiagnosed, dismissed, not believed and made to feel like I'm a hypochondriac, it makes me so anxious and I do get hypertension now when I'm with the doctor. Maybe training medical staff to be a little more compassionate, less judgemental and patronising in their tone towards patients might be a good start to help reduce anxiety for patients like me.
I been through all that I ended up going for treatment in Italy diagnosed in 2 days treated 2 days after diagnosis spent 9 months in treatment completely healed US health care system is about greed and keeping us sick
Whenever I go to the doctors, my blood pressure is ALWAYS high. They don’t ask about any life factors at all. They just say my heart rate is fast and my blood pressure is high. My doctor told me I had a fucking heart murmur and that scared the shit out of me for a year. The next yearly physical, he didn’t hear the murmur. WHAT A SURPRISE
@@wabajack8250how can i go and treat in italy? Do i have to be italian?
@@yeislyntorres5304 no just gotta be able to afford it it was expensive but they have advance tests that read some elevated levels in my blood that was found in people that had brain tumors and bam they had me in surgery and healing quickly
For me to call it fear would be grossly understating things. I’m not afraid of needles, I’m not afraid of pain, I’m afraid of being violated. Every time I go to the doctor I re-experience what happened to me at the doctor when I was very little. There isn’t anything that doctors can do to “make it less fearful.” I don’t have “white coat syndrome” I have PTSD.
I get a lot of stress going into the doctors office.. I HATE needles and always will. When people like friends talk about stitches, blood tests ect.. I get so worked up and stressed... this has been with me for a long time so when I go to the doctor with a friend I either stay in the office and watch satisfying videos or go back outside and wait.
Exactly me
When i go to the doctors I'm afraid that I'll be diagnosed with something big and my life will never the same after that
And that is what really scares me even to the point where my breathing gets faster
same!! i go to the doctors in 6 1/2 hours .. 😭
Same here....how do you handle it
I feel the same way brother, but think of it like this, if something really is wrong with you it’s better you know now than later.
You handle it by not being an idiot and going to the doctor, because not going can kill you!
Just watching this scares me.
Me to bro
I just have a little medical anxiety but I just have high blood pressure because I have so much stresss
It's not just doctors though and it's not needles. I would shove 10 needles in my arm myself before I even considered going to the doctor. And like I said before, it isn't just doctors. It's also things like getting a massage, getting waxed, stuff like that. And male doctors scare me more than female ones. Guys just make me uneasy if I'm not very very comfortable with them already and even thinking about the things I mentioned can make me panic and break down and start crying. It suck because if I had cancer, I would let myself die over going to the doctor.
I have kind of a similar fear, i just cant bring myself to trust doctors especially male ones because a lot of them have done things with force and i wasnt being bad or whatever and its like 7 years later and i still remember what happened-
i’m terrified of going to the doctor because i’m always scared something is going to be wrong with me. like i have suspicions that i have pcos but i’m scared to go to the doctor and them tell me it’s true
same! did you ever go?
same ! but not the pcos part
Ughhhh same. But not pcos obviously.
Same...
Same
I'm afraid of wasting the doctors time, so I am hesitant to go or call for help even if I genuinely feel like something is wrong. Especially since I have anxiety and I know anxiety can cause you to experience symptoms that aren't real.
I'm afraid of going to the doctors because way too many times I've been belittled, sent home without explanations or precautions for what was prescribed to me, manipulated to get certain treatment, and downright prescribed medications that were too potent for what I was experiencing. One doctor even suggested to my mother that I was going to die when I was a teen, I went to him for tinnitus (which I still have and live with unbothered).
I’m watching this as I’m at the doctor literally crying.....
HELP
aesthetic_honeyy it’s ok. How did it go?
Bongodapug Ree I had an anxiety attack and I had to get 3 shots and I have a phobia of shots so it didn’t go well lol
aesthetic_honeyy same, I’m about to go in a hour and I might have to get a shot. I am terrified of needles as well. I throw up, or sometimes pass out after seeing a needle.
Bongodapug Ree omg good luck
aesthetic_honeyy thank you
I don’t like being touched at all, and I’m scared of getting painful/uncomfortable/invasive treatments for things. Also, I worry that they’ll measure me as taller than I am or want to be. One time, I had a sore throat and my mom took me to the doctor. They had to do a throat swab to check for strep, and I threw up-which is terrifying because my worst fear at the time was throwing up (it still might be).
Every time I think of or someone mentions doctors, my heart races and I feel like crying. It ruined a dinner for me one time, because my family got on the subject of going to the doctors, and I had a breakdown right then and there.
The ultimate idiocy!. No DOCTOR really knows what it is like to be terrified of doctors. that is like you knowing what it is like for someone to be afraid of you. You can't.
It's like someone who's never had to deal with a certain mental disorder trying to explain what it feels like.
For me the whole thing is way to clinical. I get that it has to be for sterile purposes but hospitals and doctors need to be more like home, warming environment where you feel relaxed. Doctors are way too matter of fact also, it’s the worry that they are going to tell you some bad news and run a shed load of tests like it’s nothing.
Needles are a big no no for me too but the main part of it is the sound of unwrapping g the needle, and the nurse trying to talk gently too you while you look around the room looking at all the surgical equipment
@@paulyd2483 I agree the place at the Drs is too sterile looking, bright lights, intimidating. I'm not afraid of needles even though I had a bad experience with having a spinal done. I just don't trust Drs
I am scared of going there I scared of them saying shit about my weight and cheating my body
Yes thank you and my mom always talks about my weight and I really hate it
yes i agree
honestly the shots don’t scare me it’s when they make comments on my weight and height
Yeah same
I didn't use to be afraid to go. Over the past decade, I have suffered with terrible anxiety and panic disorder. I used to swear there was something physically wrong with me, but every time I went into my doctor, they would do exams and tell me it's anxiety and I was fine.
Now, I've been avoiding going to the doctor at all for years unless I am very sick. My blood pressure is always high every time I go. I keep telling myself it's white coat syndrome, but I don't really believe that. Now, I think I've made a terrible mistake. I've had a mild numbness that comes and goes in my feet, slowly getting worse for the past couple years. I just know I have diabetes starting, and I am so afraid to go and find out. I have panic attacks thinking about going. I feel like I am probably just going to die, having never gone to the doctor.
Same it scares me😓😓😭😭😭
I'm sorry you're going through it. I ended up in the ER a couple of weeks ago. I had something similar, but my bloodwork and blood pressure is near perfect. I feel invalidated and my family don't take my concerns seriously so I stopped telling them about my recent symptoms. I should be concerned by the pain I'm experiencing right now, but I just can get myself to go to the hospital. I'm too tired to fight just to be overlooked again.
I think out every time something is wrong with me in the doctors
I'm afraid I will be told I am dying. What can I do. I don't want to accept it.
Hi there me to i feel the same way
@@sabrinataylor7040 I have prayed about it and I am grateful Jesus answered my prayers and I am 100% good. Trust in God and he will deliver you.
@@davesaenz3732.....Amen🙏❤️
Thank you. I am 100% good. Jesus is lord. King of kings.
@@davesaenz3732 how do you ask God for health?
I might have to get a needle today, and I am scared because I have really bad anxiety and shit, I am also depressed and I hate it so much, it’s more than what you think. Get really scared and I feel like I’m going to pass out. I have gotten blood drawn and tests and they had to do it 3 times and I passed out. Please help me. My friends aren’t scared, but why am I?
Read the Bible in Psalms , give your life to Christ, perfect love casts out All fear
Im glad i know my resources and who to approach. Everyone hates bad news its all about mindset. My best friend hates going to get checks up a drs place should be a good comfortable area
I'm in fear from the severe neglect I have received from drs and continue to recieve drs like this. I hate this. I hate drs. I am disabled and need to see them regularly.
there are some doctors that dont listen what u say...mabye thay dont care ...if you are scare or not
I can’t speak for the US, but I think the Health Service in the UK is SO horrendous - most fears like this are borne out of appalling experiences.
I used to be terrified of going to the doctor because of a bad experience with a doctor that messed up a procedure on my spinal cord welll he was a surgeon actually and it made me have to be in a wheelchair so I hated all doctors because of what that guy did to me but as I got a bit older, I’m 16 now, I realized that they just wanna help and they aren’t all bad
Same thing happened to me. Messed up spinal surgery and constant pain since then. And now I go to doctors to find the cause and/or treat the pain. And my anxiety is getting worse because they can't help and some are so rude. Sorry to hear what happened to you.
if my doctor walked in with a green shirt and a cute little bowtie it’d make me much calmer than if they walked in with a white coat lol
CBT would be great for this!
im scared that im gonna get assaulted for some reason, and i especially try and stay away from male doctors even tho theres only some bad ones. i cant tell whos intentions are what tho
I'm so scared to go. I have gum disease I know I do and I want so badly to get help but I just can't bring myself to go get help and now it's been too long and I'm afraid there's nothing they can do for me. Idk what to do
How about having a middle ear infection after a head cold,go to the 'doc n the box'.Afterwards, the doc gives me a prescription for a med to dry up my sinuses in addition to OTC drugs-the bill was 150.00usd.and come back in a week...I got on the internet,middle ear infections clear up with amoxicillin,bought a fish amoxicillin online cleared it up in 30 days-20.00usd..
Ear infections can cause anxiety
The reason when you got two doctors on I t. V. Give you falls infermeshion what do you exspect
Please I need help
At night first I sleep so well than suddenly I am being weak up az 1 or 2 o’clock than I can’t sleep I am being so scared than i sleep with my mom again I am scared when my mom is weak up for 20 min than i fall a sleep please please help me it’s 3rd night and it is happening regularly every time between 1 and 2 o’clock
What should I do please help me suggest me something
I am 20 years old
Thank you.
I always tell my kids to ride the wave like a surfer. It will get better honey. You’re not alone...
my reason for fearing of going to the hospital is the crippling debts.
That's what happens to me, extreme white coat syndrome.
I’m afraid because they’ll tell my parents I’m sexually active and pregnant as a teen! IM GOING WEDNESDAY HELP ME PLEASE
kishî it will be fine. What did your parents say?( if you are okay with saying what happened)
Bongodapug Ree they didn’t look at my uhm, privates so they didn’t know and I didn’t tell them
kishî ok, but do your parents know? I know this is probably a sensitive topic. So you don’t have to tell me.
Bongodapug Ree no they don’t, I have tried telling them but I get anxious about what they would do to me like if they wouldn’t love me or they would give me away or worse..
kishî it will be okay, they will love you for who you are! Nobody just gives their child away from a mistake. I’m here if you need to talk.
We should be afraid. A high percentage of procedures are unnecessary. A lot of doctors are incompetent. It’s not easy to find a good one. Even if you’re not limited by insurance, the best ones stop taking new patients. Google “value of annual physical exams.”
You are absolutely right, finding a good genuine doctor is the tough part, most just want to make money by prescribing drugs and tests
My Doctor is good and she is young one.I can't confine😮 in with her poor. Listener