Reged: 07/10/04
Posts: 1176
Loc: Manhattan, New York
I am an emetaphobe...big time..though I fight it a lot. i would always make myself go near a puking drunk friend and hold their hair to face it. but if I hear someone has a tummy bug I run a mile...I am terrified to the point of anxiety attacks of catching it, and nausea is one of my major symptoms. though, I KNOW the difference between anxiety nausea and physiological nausea. it feels different, I can feel the trigger setting it off (like to hear that someone in my family threw up and I go into freak out mode that I am going to catch it) I HATE this phobia of mine and am jealous of people that can just throw up (my mum) without making it a life issue. I remember everytime I have thrown up from the age of 7 like it was yesterday. And it hasn't been often. I haven't thrown up since I was 16 and am now 25, though have come close. I really want to beat this fear. I have suffered with anxiety attacks too, though I got them mainly under control without medication. Very interesting.
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