Does anyone else have emetophobia?
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There are many therapies available today to treat emetophobia.
All phobias are symptoms of an anxiety disorder because, if you weren't frightened, you wouldn't have the phobia and you shouldn't be frightened of things that don't pose any risk to you. The same is true of Emetophobia.
So how do you stop the cycle?
Simple.you defeat the anxiety disorder that causes the nausea and the fear of vomiting (emetophobia) and, therefore, you stop the phobia.
This works every time but you have to know how to stop the anxiety.
-Regression Hypnotherapy is one therapy that will allow a person to remember that particular event and review it with 'adult' eyes this time around. This will then allow them to interpret the event correctly and it will no longer be an issue for them
Alternative Therapies
Reflexology
For this your feet and hands are used. They say that certain points on your hands and feet relate and are linked to certain organs or other parts of your body. By massaging specific parts of the hands and feet is said to help with digestion, headaches, solar plexus which should help with anxiety and other parts such as your heart lungs, chest etc.By doing reflexology it may help with your anxiety, stress and tension throughout your body.
Massage
There are different types of massage which are said to do different things to the body, some use aroma, some manipulate the muscles and joints but the aim is to make you relax which may help with the anxiety and stress of your phobia.
Reiki
Reiki can help with variety of issues, including emotional health, depression, anxiety, physical health, personal boundaries, and abundance. The practice of Reiki is based on working with, and channelling energy, or a spiritual energy. This energy can be referred to as 'chi', The intention with all these energy techniques is that if you can harmonise your energy system, you are putting your body in the best possible position to heal itself on all levels: physical, mental, emotional and spiritual. A relative of mind is qualified in reiki, the treatment involves you lying down comfortably so that you relax. She then moves her hands around the body ~(no contact is made) channelling energy to problem areas or just around the body in general. Its very relaxing and refreshing. It helps you clear your mind and helps your body to heal and feel revitalised.
Shiatsu
This is similar to acupuncture and reike together but there is no needles involved. The Shiatsu therapist uses his/her finger to put pressure on your energy channel. It is said to stimulate the energy channel and maybe get rid of energy blockages that are causing pain or illness.
Acupuncture
Again like with reiki and Shiatsu, this works with the Chi (energy) which is said to flow around the body. Needles are used instead of the fingers and are inserted at certain points of the energy channel, which is meant to help with pain relief, anxiety and nausea.
Hypnotherapy
This can be a choice for the treatment of your emetophobia. It involves lying or sitting and relaxing your muscles until you are completely relaxed. Once relaxed the therapist then tells your unconscious mind of how and what changes it can make to make your life better. By using hypnotherapy they may even be able to find the cause of your fear which in theory should help you overcome this. It's hard to say whether or not hypnotherapy can cure you, but it can help you to relax and unwind and maybe even train your mind to cut off from emetophobia.
Conventional Therapy
Cognitive-Behaviour Therapy or CBT
This is usually the first choice of treatments by therapists. . It is based on the fact that your phobia creates your anxiety. Using that theory they aim to help you control your anxiety. From my experience what they did was to give you small tasks to do which you wouldn't normally do for example walk to the shops if you don't normally go out. The theory is that once you are out and the longer you stay out your anxiety level should go down. If you are often exposed to a certain situation you should eventually no longer get anxious. To do this they may ask you to keep a diary or record of your anxiety before and after doing your task. That way you can see if improvement has been made. This is less suitable if you anxiety is your anxiety is nausea based.
Cognitive Therapy
This treatment is based on your way of thinking. In my experience of this treatment I can say that its about changing how your mind thinks and training it to think rationally. For example if you say, "I'm going to be sick if I eat this meat" they talk you through why that isn't rational. They help you realise that you are thinking negative thoughts and so you may be able to change the whole way of thinking. So far I've found this to be a good treatment as at the time it helped me a lot. If you have an underlying cause of your phobia I don't think this treatment would help to resolve that.
Behaviour Therapy
This is usually used with Cognitive treatment. It aims to change your behaviour. for example what the therapist would do is ask you to do a task that you normal feel anxious doing, such as Go shopping, you then do the task to prove to yourself that you can do it and that you wasn't sick when you did it. This is getting your mind to realise that you aren't going to be sick if you go shopping and eventually when doing the task your anxiety should go down. It aims to change your behaviour's and obsessions and make you think rationally.
Eye Movement Desensitisation and Reprocessing or EMDR
This is said to be a treatment that gets to the cause of why you have emetophobia. It's said that the treatment occupies your conscious mind so that you unconscious mind can get through. When doing this they may be able to get rid of bad memories and then they are substituted for pleasurable thoughts. I've not had this treatment and so I can't speak from experience. I don't know whether this treatment is good or bad. but I know it's not recommended for patients with vertigo or visual problems.
Systematic Desensitisation
I'm sceptical of this treatment for emetophobia, the therapist will gradually introduce you to your fear. For example if you are scared of dogs, they will show you a picture of a dog, and then maybe look at a dog from a distance outside. Slowly they make you confront your fear until eventually you can look at a dog close up and maybe touch it. The thing is with this treatment, unless you are sick they can't expose you to it. You could look at videos but unless you're sick you can't actually fully confront it. I think you have to bare in mind the ethics of this treatment and decide if it's right for you personally.
Emetics
This would have to be voluntary and is a very personal choice of treatment. Basically you take emetic drugs, which work in the opposite to anti-emetics. You take them and they make you vomit. Some people think that because they haven't vomited in maybe years that they need to confront it to be cured.
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What is that disease
Emetophobia- Fear of vomiting
I don't have this phobia but I do think vomitting is sooo gross!
I have it and I have not found really much of anything that helps to overcome it. I work for a therapist and she said to constantly expose yourself(watching videos of nothing but sick people) to the aspect that makes you the most fearful and you eventually will get used to it and it won't really bother you anymore. I have not done this but you may want to try it. Good Luck!!
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