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emetophobia?
Emetophobia as weird as it sounds is the fear of throwing up. I never thought it was a real thing until I did some research. Obviously not many of us like watching or hearing anyone vomit. Not many of us enjoy doing it either. The thing with me is even if I wanted to I just physically can't. I can't be in a room with someone who is sick from their stomach I can't stare into a toilet bowl. I have a cold & when I cough I get that urge to gag & want to vomit but I just can't is there any way to get over this fear or can make a cold go away faster?
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The following is the standard of treatment that I found while researching Emetophobia. It is important that you get professional help as this is not something you can do on your home. The help must come from a professional therapist who is familiar with Emetophobia and it's treatment as this problem is very often misdiagnosed. You need to seek out a Clinical psychologist for help and you need to interview them in how they plan to treat you as well as making sure they are knowledgeable in the treatment of this problem.
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Treatment
Emetophobia can be successfully treated with exposure therapy. This treatment doesn't necessarily require that the individual actually vomit, but that he/she practice with situations, objects and activities which he fears might lead to vomiting, and which he's been avoiding. Common exposure exercises include: smells, videos and photographs of vomiting, spitting into a toilet, sitting in the back seat of a car, eating at buffet tables, spinning around to induce sensations of nausea, and so on. Simply reading this article, with its frequent use of the word "vomit", is an early step of exposure, because many people with Emetophobia try to avoid the word.
Vomiting is almost always quite unpleasant, and treatment does not seek to change that. Rather, the aim of treatment is to help people live their lives, and engage in activities that are important to them, without being restricted by an excessive fear of vomiting.
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