Dshell
04-02-07, 19:45
Hiya everyone!
I'm sorry in advance but i think that this will be quite a long post!
I have suffered from emetaphobia since I was around 9 years old ~(I'm now 25!) and at the moment I am actually pertrified as my boyfriend and his family have all come down with a sickness bug. His mother had it first, then his brother and he started with it about an hour after I left his house a few nights ago and since then I have been in a permanent state of panic that I am going to get it!! How long normally would it take for me to develop it if I was going to get it?
My emataphobia has got slightly better over the last few years as I am training to be a midwife and come accross a lot of people vomiting and I have reasoned with myself that I can cope with that as it is something that isn't going to make me sick - however, I think I am actually worse than before when it comes to stomach bugs!
Unortunately, I am not feeling too well anyway at the moment as I am full of a cold and together with the feelings of panic that I am going to develop this bug I keep have these really strong feelings of nausea which makes me panic even more! I haven't seen my boyfriend since Thursday night (when he got sick just after I left!) because I don't want to expose myself to the bug again - even though he is feeling a lot better now and stopped being sick on Friday! - (it's now Sunday!)
I know that what I feel is completely irrational but I just can't help it - I have tried talking to people about it and although they are generally sympathetic, they just do not understand that overwhelming urge of panic that I get! Today is the first day that I have eaten more than just a sandwhich or a piece of toast (just incase I did get the bug I didn't want to eat - how silly is that!!!) and I am not sure if my stomach is now hurting because of that and if I am feeling nauseous because I am hungry but I am now refusing to eat again just incase I am sick!
Please, please - if someone can help will you reply to me as I really am desperate! I hate to feel like this, I can't rationalise it even to myself and I feel completely stupid but I just can't help it! Does anybody have any good ideas that stop you feeling sick (other than taking the anti-emetics that I have been talking for the last 3 days!!!)
Sorry again for the long post and thank you in advance for and advice you give to me.
Dawn x
I'm sorry in advance but i think that this will be quite a long post!
I have suffered from emetaphobia since I was around 9 years old ~(I'm now 25!) and at the moment I am actually pertrified as my boyfriend and his family have all come down with a sickness bug. His mother had it first, then his brother and he started with it about an hour after I left his house a few nights ago and since then I have been in a permanent state of panic that I am going to get it!! How long normally would it take for me to develop it if I was going to get it?
My emataphobia has got slightly better over the last few years as I am training to be a midwife and come accross a lot of people vomiting and I have reasoned with myself that I can cope with that as it is something that isn't going to make me sick - however, I think I am actually worse than before when it comes to stomach bugs!
Unortunately, I am not feeling too well anyway at the moment as I am full of a cold and together with the feelings of panic that I am going to develop this bug I keep have these really strong feelings of nausea which makes me panic even more! I haven't seen my boyfriend since Thursday night (when he got sick just after I left!) because I don't want to expose myself to the bug again - even though he is feeling a lot better now and stopped being sick on Friday! - (it's now Sunday!)
I know that what I feel is completely irrational but I just can't help it - I have tried talking to people about it and although they are generally sympathetic, they just do not understand that overwhelming urge of panic that I get! Today is the first day that I have eaten more than just a sandwhich or a piece of toast (just incase I did get the bug I didn't want to eat - how silly is that!!!) and I am not sure if my stomach is now hurting because of that and if I am feeling nauseous because I am hungry but I am now refusing to eat again just incase I am sick!
Please, please - if someone can help will you reply to me as I really am desperate! I hate to feel like this, I can't rationalise it even to myself and I feel completely stupid but I just can't help it! Does anybody have any good ideas that stop you feeling sick (other than taking the anti-emetics that I have been talking for the last 3 days!!!)
Sorry again for the long post and thank you in advance for and advice you give to me.
Dawn x