Contest: Decoding Hospital Fear

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Hello everyone, I trust we are all doing fine and active as usual. Engaging in this contest means a whole lot to me as I will be contributing my own quota.

Categorically, one can not be admitted in the hospital if he is hale and hearty but when the reverse is the case, the affected person has the option of visiting the hospital to be properly treated and taken care of awaiting quick recovery.

Right from a very tender age I've always had phobia for a lot of things and hospitals were not excluded from those things. Judging from where a hospital is and having to drive pass it usually gives me this sense of discomfort.

Hospital I will say isn't for the over emotional one like me. I grew up with the fear that going to the hospital will make me see things which I have avoided my whole life, ranging from various health related problems suffered by all the social classes of people, medications of assorted types and to crown it all death.

Growing up to the age I am now, I have barely seen anyone go to the hospital and return alive even after a successful operation or after recovering to an extent, except on rare occasions. All this things sums up to make me so scared of the hospital.

Hospital to start with isn't a place for the soft hearted judging from my personal experience. There are various things which can make people afraid of hospitals such as:

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• Fear of being diagnosed of a life threatening ailment

• Phobia for Needles

• Strong dislike for medications

• Fear of not being able to Carter for hospital bills

• Having to see other patient and their relatives in their worst and lowest moments

• Fear of not making it out alive (fear of the unknown)

• A particular smell which a hospital has can cause discomfort to a person.

I find the theatre room and motuary very scary. The theatre room is where severe cases are being battled with and survival becomes a 50/50 chance.

When everything done to salvage the situation proves abortive, then motuary becomes a new home for the unfortunate until a time to be buried is being fixed.

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Doctors and nurses can make patients feel less scared by being their emotional support system, having meaningful pep talks with them with a positive mindset, assuring them that all will be well irrespective of a patients condition and encouraging them to have a reason to live.

First of all, for a patient to overcome his fear he prays to God to take charge of everything

He thinks of things that makes them happy such as family, loved ones, movies etc.

Request for loved ones to spend time with them in the hospital. Above all having a positive mindset.

Thank you all for your time. I'm inviting @megareigns, @hannah002 and @saintkelvin17 to partake in this amazing contest.