Emetophobia

Hey ~ honestly i know that this is a very hard topic to talk about.. i know no one really asked but i wanted to tell you my experience with this.. so when i was about 9 years old i was on a bus trip from a turkish city to another and since turkish streets aren't that well build it was very hard to sit straight on the but cause it constantly shacked- and as soon as I knew i told my mum "I'm going to throw up" and like that ( the duration of that bus ride was 17 hours cause the citys are very far away from eachother) ... I thought after a while i would be okay but no.. i couldn't eat anything in those hours, i wasn't able to sleep nor really think.. it hurt so much and i was a crying mess.. that was now a long time ago but thinking back i still get breakdowns cause i dunno how to deal with it.. what i wanna say is that you are not alone.. i know it's very hard but we'll get trough this 🤍.. i thought yesterday a way on how to get rid off my phobias cause i have many and.. maybe just writing first your feeling > then why and since when you feel like that > when you felt similar and what you did to keep yourself calm or what your solution last time was > and then possible ideas on how to get a tiny step closer on how to get rid of it like- it's a very long journey but.. it's okay we can do it 🥺

i really know how you feel. i've been having the phobia to throw up since i was really young. i think i'm even worse than you, i can't even see anybody throw up or even hear the sound of it. makes me feel really sick to the stomach. most of the time i don't throw up and i know its due to the anxiety and the phobia, but sometimes it really sucks. recently i've been having so many panic attacks when i go out, and these panic attacks are the massive feeling of nauesa which makes it even worse. it takes me some time to cool down and i really avoid going out if i can.. :(

I have the same phobia. Right now I’m having really bad anxiety because I feel like I’m going to and my head hurts. Honestly feel the same way you do. It hasn’t gotten to the point where I don’t leave my house, but it’s always in the back of my mind. It’s just a constant fear. A few tips I saw on YouTube is to just embrace the feeling of throwing up and to invite and be happy you feel that way so yo can experience it and get it over with. For me it’s just really embarrassing if people see me randomly throwing up. I have pretty bad acid reflex and it littersly makes me feel like I’m going to throw up nonstop, so yeah you’re not alone man.