Does anyone suffer or know anything about emotophobia or fear of vomiting?!
Question: I feel i have a problem w/ this and would just like to know about anyone else who suffers or knows anything, thanks in advance!
Answers: I feel i have a problem w/ this and would just like to know about anyone else who suffers or knows anything, thanks in advance!
i do.
i dont know why, but i just cant stand watching and/or hearing people throw up, i get so nauseous.
i cant even handle hearing the dog barf. i usually run out of the room before he does.
once when i was little, i ate a little too much steak and threw up in my sleep. its weird but it was gross. and now i barely eat steak anymore.
i've had way too many bad experiences with people throwing up.
and this one time in first grade, we were at lunch and this girl just threw up on the table. ughhh im getting nauseous just remembering.
I have the same problem. I have a fear of vomiting and I have a fear of others vomiting around me. I thought I was one of the only ones who had this problem until I researched it and found out it was actually pretty common. There's a book written by Nicolette Heaton-Harris called Living With Emetophobia: Coping With an Extreme Fear of Vomiting. It might help.
n worst case scenarios, people with the phobia tend to avoid eating out, socializing and going to parties. They may hardly eat at all and that's why many are often diagnosed as anorexic, but not bulimic as this illness involves the induction of vomiting. Emetophobics will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid becoming violently sick ("vomit continence," Nicolette Heaton-Harris & Linda Dean (2007), Emetophobia, ISBN 1843105365, p. 20), or seeing someone else becoming sick.