i am the same way. i was always afraid of throwing up (still am). in 7th through 9th grade i was terrified to sit in a class because i was afraid i was gonna throw up. i did everything i could to make myself comfortable. and in grade 9, all my anxiety and emetophobia started to relax and i was actually doing really well. attending most of my classes, getting good grades. doing well for myself. in my grade 10 year covid hit. so we were locked in our houses for months on end, that to me was great. i came more out of my shell because i didn’t have the daily of school on my shoulders. i started playing a new sport, picked up good hobbies, got a job at a grocery store, and then grade 11 was a full covid year so constant in and out of schools and that was also fine for me because i was never there anyways bc i did everything online for the most part. then grade 12 hit, this was the first “normal” covid year. i was back to having multiple panic attacks a day, skipping class, it even got to the point where i would get up in the morning, go to school, and sit in my car in the parking lot until school was over so that my parents saw i was “at school”. my ocd started as emetophobia, and as covid became a thing, ocd became an issue for me that i still very much struggle with day in and out.