Thanks so much for your post and your concern for me. Maybe I spoke too soon, I haven't spent more than an evening on the site. (emetaphobia.org). Its just that in the time I spent on those boards, I found very few posts with what I was looking for - info and new ideas about getting over this.
I did read the emet blogspot too. I think I've read the entire site or close at this point - and my first reaction was that I hope she's right - that exposure therapy isn't necessary for anyone including me! But her argument didn't make much sense to me - people who are afraid of heights DO learn step by step to go to high places and face their fear. They don't jump off of course but neither does anybody else. People scared of elevators or planes or subways often work their way up to getting in them to face their fears and prove to themselves that as you say its the anxiety and loss of control itself, not the situation. She also talks about people who have been through rape or abuse as not needing to go through the experience again to get over it - those are violent/sexual/emotional trauma in a way that throwing up which is just a natural body function isn't. I was surprised she spoke of them as related.
The truth is I don't know what's right. I surely don't know if I"m on the right path. However, I made the choice to try exposure for now, after a year of therapy digging deeper than I ever thought possible into the roots of this problem for me. (and meditation). It felt like the final piece of the puzzle, to finally face the fear head on. Trying to anyway
-------------------- Ladies & gentlemen take my advice, pull down your pants and slide on the ice.
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