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I have a fear of throwing up too. Why don't you try to take travel sickness meds? May help the anxiety of being sick
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For fear of throwing up I would look into a couple things. Number 1. Am I actually scared of throwing up? Or am I scared that something bad will happen if Im not careful with my health hygine like will my mother get cancer. If so I would highly recommend reading about thought action fusion before you run to any excersises/exposure. You first want to recognize that just because I had the thought that something bad will happen through throwing up doesn't mean it's true. It's known as obssesion about obssesion while really throwing up isn't the problem but obssesion that if I throw up than something bad might happen... Besides for that I would look into medication for this if you are experiencing Hyperawernes and on maybe even Depression. Do you see yourself thinking in all or nothing. Are you having thoughts like Did I just do that? I just did that ? Did that really happen? What if it's not ocd? Why this thought? If any of the above thoughts occur I would really look into medication as it does wonders for health anxiety/ Hyperawernes/ emetephobia - fear of vomiting. Now even more f you are currently on a medication you can still go for an evaluation m In my experience with health anxiety - emetephobia since the obssesion are body related it's very hard to believe that a medication change will help because I'm already feels ng my body. At it's all you want to give me a medication. That was my thought for two years but than I switched ssri from Zoloft to Prozac and things got a lot better. If you still like not interested in medication I believe Emdr can really help because it targets fear of fear and with throwing up we are also scared that this fear will be there forever . Or what else will the fear indicate. So Emdr can really help with fear of fear. Remmember w obssesion about obssesion it can get very confusing. Please note I'm not a clinical proffesional and my advice shouldn't substitute a professional but I strongly believeif you are experiencing symptoms for more than an hour a day than it should indicate a licensed clinician.
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Good luck
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ive had this my whole life too! erp helps. start really small. like think of the word “vomit” for two minutes. when that doesnt freak you out, imagine someone vomiting. step it up a little, piece after piece personally, i still have the fear, but ive managed to rid myself of many aspects of the fear. when i was a kid, just seeing someone vomit would make me go crazy. now, i dont have any problems at all if people throw uo because of alcohol, because i know it wont be contagious. i know i can get rid of this fear the same way ive made it affect me less. i totally know the cycle of feeling unexplainably nauseous, then panicking, then becoming even more nauseous from panickinh and then doing this for hours on end. one time, i actually ended up trowinh up because of it, and you know what? i was way better afterwards. the “worst” had happened, and it was over. i know this isnt a good thing to say because you might start worrying your panic will make you throw up too, but i highly doubt it. if i would have to guess, ive probably had about a thousand panic attacks because i was afraid of throwinh up, and only once i did. but yeah, erp helps A LOT
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OMG i have the exact same thing, we’re gonna be ok, yep, i feel sick too when i start to worry and have those obsessions!
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hi im a fifteen year old girl with really bad ocd and emetaphobia nobody knows my fear except for my best friend and my sister. its so hard to even say the word or even type the word so i just say “sick” even typing this out makes my heart race and my hands sweaty. ive been really struggling with ocd for almost a year its gotten worst about every month. its always on my mind. i have a therapist but i cant even tell them about my anxiety and thoughts that go on in my head. my whole family is watching me fall deeper and deeper into this dark whole that i dont know how to get out of. its feels awful to see everyone around you watch you fail over and over again. please forgive me if this was graphic thank you
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So I’m severely emetophobic but these past few weeks have gotten SO bad. I had a bad reaction to an SSRI that made me feel like I was gonna throwup, I stopped taking them over two weeks ago but ever since then the fear has got even worse. I haven’t left the house properly in weeks because I’ve convinced myself I’ll be sick. I feel nauseous even indoors a lot of the time (there are hours when I don’t, like for example this afternoon I was fine). But I challenged myself to go for a short walk this evening and omg it was so hard I really thought I might throwup. The thing is I KNOW it’s anxiety and not real nausea because it feels completely different to when I was actually nauseous from the medication. This feeling is more like a tight throat/sensation of a lump in my throat that makes me feel like I’m gonna gag. I also have RCPD (I can’t burp basically lol) so I just feel like I have trapped air in my throat that’s gonna make me puke. The phobia has gotten really really bad. I have started therapy recently but I’ve been scared of throwing up since I was a kid and I’m now 31 lol wtf. I remember last Christmas my mum said someone at her work had been sick and I was so scared my mum had caught it and would pass it on to me that I refused to leave my bedroom without wearing gloves and a mask and wiping everything with anti-germ wipes. But right now it’s so so bad because I have literally gotten to the point where I’ve convinced myself I feel nauseous pretty much 24/7 and I am taking anti-nausea meds almost every day. Has anyone else dealt with/has tips for this??? I’m literally desperate 😭
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I have emetophobia. And have been battling with it for about a year and a half now. It stems from a trip I took with my high school where everyone ended up getting the stomach bug. I didnt have it so bad but I ended up feeling nauseous the entire trip (1 week long). And then every time I would eat food I would feel nauseous or unwell and had a strict clean diet for a while. It got to the point where I couldn’t attend school without feeling like I was going to vomit and pass out. I couldn’t even hear the word without getting anxious. I eventually got on lexapro and when that didnt work then I recently got on prozac. I have been talking to my therapist about my anxiety and she had initially thought it was a trauma response from the trip, but eventually came to the conclusion that it was a form of OCD. Like it was where I wouldnt eat something if it touched the counter or I wouldnt eat something unless someone else ate the exact thing a few hours before. I avoid red meat completely because it is slightly raw. I get panic attacks after eating something like a freaking cookie from Crumbl, because I would read reviews about someone getting sick from the uncooked dough. But it felt like before summer I was getting to a point where I could eat most things and not get too much anxiety. Until the other day. On my birthday at midnight I ended up getting sick like stomach flu sick like real bad and ended up in the er. I havent eaten anything since and am horrified to eat something. And my thoughts keep running and I dont know how to be normal anymore. I dont know how to have a relationship with food anymore. I am horrified. I spent the entire year just dreading this one day and it happened on my birthday. I am supposed to be in school but I don’t know how to function anymore. Please someone help, I feel so alone.
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