Hi, My wife has a fear of doctors. Over last few years I have been able to get her to take basic medications and at least talk to few doctors we know personally. However, whenever there is even a slight hint of any thing invasive(like blood test) she gets very hyper and behaves like a child, begging not to get it done. I have promised her that I shall not get any invasive tests done, but still she gets afraid at slightest issue in health.For non invasive procedures like Xray/ultrasound also it takes couple of days and strictness from me to get her to take the tests.I did some research and found that these are symptoms of Itrophobia. Please advice on how to proceed with this and get her to a state where she does not psyche up on atleast day to day issues.
Hello, Thanks for choosing Chat Doctor for posting your query. From your description its is quite certain that she is having a phobia of doctors and hospitals. This could have generated by some past bad experience that would have had. There are two types of treatment