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Okay I am phobic of being sick, as I am emetophobic and many of you probably think that being sick is no big deal. But this is a real phobia of mine and facing your phobias is beyond scary. I feel sick and I am scared I'm going to be

My ex-wife was emetophobic, although she never (or rarely ever) actually emet-ed. The best thing in the world that you can do for yourself when you start feeling that way is find something you enjoy to focus on, whether it's stimming, a really piece of music or if you're so inclined, a really engrossing video game. The latter would be my first pick probably although you may find stimming or something else works better for you. The trick is to find something to distract yourself with. Hopefully when you're done with your distraction, you'll have forgotten about the fear and move on to the next thing. Where fear is concerned, thinking about the source of the fear is often a big part of the problem, and you can't stop thinking about it unless you can derail your thought process with some kind of distraction. Otherwise you run into the white-bear phenomenon.

I have a particular fear of the feeling of being nauseous. I hate the feeling of throwing up.

Hope you feel better.

I sometimes hate vomiting too. But then I got used to it when I was pregnant, to the point where I could vomit without feeling sick or having any pain. In order to do that you have to get rid of the fear that you might throw up all over the place. Bring a nice big bowl with you everywhere. Then you won't have to hold it in until you get to the bathroom and you won't get the pain that results from holding it back.

I am one who just likes to get it done and over with. In fact, when I know I have the flu, I will eat things that will make my stomach feel worse, and possibly spead through the stage of vomiting faster.

I've heard that a swallow of vinegar is good for settling the stomach if the problem is too much acid in your stomach. Just something else to try.

Hi Lioness, I've been learning nutritional healing lately because my dog almost died from a major organ failure. She gets into a cycle of gastrointestinal distress with bouts of nausea that makes her stop eating, and then she has gall bladder failures and infections.

I've learned how to kill her nausea so that she hardly ever vomits anymore.

(1) fresh ginger. It has a marvelously anti-nausea effect. A lot of Coast Guard search and rescue people keep crystallized ginger (usually available in produce Depts) on the small boats. I grate fresh ginger into the dog's food, put a slice of fresh ginger in the bottom of her water bowl when she's nauseous. Instead of regular chicken soup when sick, try a Chinese chicken soup instead, with fresh ginger, rice wine, green onions, etc. It's delicious, anti-nausea and much better healing than Western Chicken soup when sick.

(2) umeboshi. These are Japanese pickled sour plums, they are salt-and-electrolyte bombs full of organic acids like citric acid, maltic acid, etc. They have a variety of health benefits, and Samurai used to carry them into battle. Umeboshi kills nausea, restores electrolyte balance, gets digestion started when it stalls in the stomach, and helps restore the body to a slightly alkiline Ph.

(3) While you are sick, avoid stuff that is hard to digest, that creates a lot of bile, like most kinds of protein and fats. Some proteins and fats are easy to digest, most are not. Easier-to-digest proteins are whey, low-fat cottage cheese, predigested liquid amino acid, a light flaky fish (not fried).

(4) there are other foods that are easy to digest and suppress nausea. Ayurvedic recipes for that purpose can be found. Specifically, a yellow lentil called mung dal, prepared with certain Ayurvedic spice methods, are fed to old and sick people who have difficulty digesting. these will produce almost no nausea.

Thanks everyone, I did my fair of stimming last night (as I stim more when I was sick) I paced around with gingerale and listened to the same song about 10 times, thanks to my beloved mp3 player.. and the nausea got better and I didn't get sick, then I crashed from exhaustion around 2am... now I am just plain exhausted, from that and by only getting 5 hours of sleep. A nap will be needed later! Thats for sure.

Hello, lioness!

I can understand how you feel at times with these phobias. I know they are very real and hard to cope wit. I wish you the very best!! Hoping your feel much better!