I'm going to the ER later today and am quiet nervous about it. It's just for a possible recurrent hernia in my belly.

Problem is I am absoutely terrified of hospitals and have been dragging this until it got bad. I do that often. I feel like a little girl being dragged someplace SCARY.

I cannot even watch much of ER or Grey's Antomy because of this fear.

I suspect my fear of hospitals, intrusive doctors, needles, and so forth have to do with being abused as a child for many years.

Does anyone here have a way of dealing with anixety of hospitals?