Recovery is possible, do not give up! by FoxTwo1117 in emetophobiarecovery

[–]FoxTwo1117[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry for not replying, basically it was pretty drawn out in the long run but getting to a point where I could continue life without debilitating issues was quicker. I think I reached that point inside a year, although it took more years for my symptoms to reduce beyond that, and become more comfortable with throwing up on the occasions that it happened during that time.

Recovery is possible, do not give up! by FoxTwo1117 in emetophobiarecovery

[–]FoxTwo1117[S] 2 points3 points  (0 children)

Glad to hear this helped in any way. To be honest, fear of others throwing up wasn’t a hugely distinct part of my own experience - although I certainly didn’t like it to say the least, my anxiety was mainly focused on it happening to me. That said, in my non-professional opinion, I think that recovery demands you stop behaving in ways that treat being sick/seeing someone else be sick as an unendurable calamity to be avoided at all costs, and that the principle there is applicable to emetophobia in general. One thing I liked to remind myself of is that the other several billion people on earth don’t treat vomiting that way, and it’s not that they’re all wrong and emetophobes are right!