emetaphobia

Tonight i have just realised that this is what i suffer. it not hugely severe as i am used to the feeling of feeling sick - everyday i feel nauseous and i think it is mainly with worry. i realise there has been a post like this one before.

my little sister used to have this fear but she was ill at new year and i think this helped her a lot. i dont want to turn to my mum and say i have got this problem now as i dont think she will believe me as i am 'mature'

what i have in my head though is that it has been almost 4 years since i last got sick - i cant help but think that its going to happen someitme soon. is it at all possible to not get sick?! id rather have a terrible flu where i cant walk and have to stay in bed than be physically sick.

my life would be soo stress free if being sick didnt exist :(

Try these other posts as well..

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Nicola

People will forget what you said
People will forget what you did
But people will never forget how you made them feel

Hello - Thank you for replying to my post which was very similar to yours! How are you feeling now? I deeply empathise with you hun and like you - would rather be ill for a month than be sick once! I am arounf sick a lot with my work which I am getting more used to but if I was to be sick I would freak!! I can only remember ever being sick 3 times in my life - once when i was 6, when I was 8 and then over 5 years ago when I was 20!

The only advice I can give you really is to talk to someone - people are more sympathetic than you think they will be and get their support. I think about it every day but it doesn't worry me everyday unless I come into contact with someone who has a bug or I hear about someone having a bug that I have been in contact with! Please dont worry yourself so much about it, I know it is easy to say that but if there is no reason why you should be sick - you wont be!

Keep smiling and dont let this ruin you life - take it from someone who has been there with the exact same phobia but has come through it mostly (apart from when I come into contact with someone with a tummy bug!!!)

Dawn x

Thank you for that reassuring post! i think about it constantly too. its always on my even though i know that i am not gonna be sick!!! a girl from my work told me the other day that her little girl had been up all night - and i was eating lunch!! i freaked and couldnt eat coz i had been in contact with her briefly the day before!! itsd quite pathetic [Sigh...] and sometimes i feel that if i dont think about it im forgetting about the fact that i could be ill at any moment! its like a vicious circle!!

im the same,whenever someone with a tummy bug comes NEAR me i run a mile!! but if rthey have the flu or a cold then i dont mind whatsoever!! or even food poisoning lol. but if i think i can catch it i get freaky! lol.

glad t hear that ur doing well :)