Re:Emetophobia (fear of vomiting) and EMDR

After reading this thread on emetophobia, I felt so relieved to know others suffered from this. Mine seems centered not only on others vomiting, but the thought of my own vomiting. So I marched into my EMDR therapist's office and finally took this on. I have dealt with multiple traumas PTSD with her with EMDR therapy and my life has so improved it's a godsend.

I was able to become extremely disturbed immediately, a 10 in fact with my baseline belief a -1 that I would be okay. I did some processing and the flood of images was most amazing, though horrible. I feel that because I so trust my therapist, I was able to flow into a reprocessing situation right away. My physical reaction was feeling nauseated, thick spittle and red hot tears. The coaching my therapist did was great letting me know that the world would not end if I did indeed vomit in her office and her humor allowed me to continue with the extreme discomfort level. I believe that all my traumas are tied together with this phobia and my social anxiety, PTSD and panic usually manifest with emetophobia. My feeling of needing to control my environment all my life has seemed to center in the same.

I am so happy to understand I am on yet another 'right track' within my EMDR therapy. Thank you all!

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Re:Emetophobia (fear of vomiting) and EMDR, by Anonymous, 12/27/02

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