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Wow this post could’ve been written by me, exactly the same experiences/diagnoses (IBS and reflux). So yeah you’re not alone!
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I know exactly what you mean. I’ve had a stomach disorder for 7 months now and my stomach would often become inflamed causing nausea and pain and stuff like that. I also have severe cocd and emetophobia so they kind of play off of each other. I would love to talk sometime. It’s nice knowing someone is going through the same thing as you.
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What kind of compulsions/behaviours do you have with your OCD and emetophobia? Obviously you don’t have to talk about it if you’re not comfortable though ?
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Hand washing. Sanitizing. I don’t eat food that I touch without freshly washed or sanitized hands. If I touch it or if someone else touches it, I won’t eat the part that they touch. Compulsive praying about not getting sick. I stopped eating cause everything I began to eat, I envisioned myself throwing up. I stopped eating meat because of food borne illness. It’s been rough
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@Sage53 Poor you, that does sound rough
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I often don’t eat or have trouble eating in public. I sleep with a plastic Tupperware container in my bed to be a “barf bucket” if needed. I spend a fair bit of time in the bathroom, and have slept on the bathroom floor on many occasions when I’m feeling anxious or naseous. I wash hands and use hand sanitizer religiously and wipe down surfaces with wet wipes. I struggle to eat meat, especially chicken, due to fear of food poisoning. At the moment, I don’t eat most meat at my college dining hall, and eat a lot of what I think of as “safe” foods- lots of simple carbs/grain products. I have a problem being around anyone who mentions feeling any sort of stomachache or nausea, and I will go out of my way to avoid a place where someone with stomach flu has been. If anyone has had stomach flu recently, I will keep my distance for quite a while after.
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@Delaney Would you like to be friends? I feel like we’re twins??I relate to everything you just said
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Wow I have emetophobia and this sounds just like me. It’s gotten to the point where I will only eat prepackaged foods out of fear that there are norovirus germs on food. I don’t even want to kiss my wife because I’m scared that she touched her mouth with her germy hands.
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This has recently developed into something much bigger than it originally was. When this past winter season started, i noticed more people were getting the stomach bug than usual. I was fine at first, until I was noticing almost one person in every class was saying they recently had it. I researched about it, and I found what I was looking for unfortunately. Norovirus cases were surging across the U.S because of a new strain of NoV that recently had been spreading. This immediately altered my way of thinking. Everywhere I went, I would be overly cautious of what’s around me and whose around me. The first obsessive compulsive problem I had was that I couldn’t eat at lunch anymore unless I washed my hands. One time, I didn’t have an option to wash my hands, so I didn’t eat lunch. That’s when I knew it was interfering with my daily life, and it was becoming a serious issue. There was another time where some guy threw up near me in the hallway trash can. My mind was spiraling. all. day. long. It felt like it was consuming me alive. Not a minute would go by where I wouldn’t think about it, and the high possibility of me catching this virus. There’s been so many other scenarios where I feel myself losing it. I’m not the best of explaining in detail how my mind feels when it spirals, but the best thing I could say is that I could feel myself slowly losing my mind. It takes over my life. I HAVE to act on my compulsive acts, if not, i’ll have these obsessive thoughts until it consumes me whole. I’ve had nervous breakdowns, panic attacks, anxiety attacks, insomnia, and it almost feels like it’s causing me to have an eating disorder. Most recently, I went to use the bathroom and saw what looked like puke on the toilet seat. I was already using it, so I just finished my buisness and rushed out there asap. I figured, if I fasted for two days, what’s there to puke if I do catch NoV? So, I did. I missed school because on the second day of fasting, I became very dehydrated. I was weak, and couldn’t move. I realized what this all rooted back to. That’s when I knew I needed help.
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does anyone know if ocd and chronic stomach issues have a strong correlation? 😭 I havent been diagnosed with any stomach issues but I have also never checked. Plus ive had ocd and like persistent and painful stomach aches since i was like 5 and still do get them. I think i may have ibs.
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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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