emetophobia

And while we're on the subject of health, hypochondria, the fear of becoming ill, makes the list too.

Emetophobia, the fear of vomiting or seeing someone else vomit, it actually lands at number three.

Believe it or not, some people even avoid nightclubs entirely because of it.

What else? Transportation shows up in the rankings as well.

Let's get into it.

So what is it really? Emetophobia is a specific phobia of being sick.

For some people, it's being sick themselves.

For others, it's seeing or hearing someone else being sick.

What's the official word of it? What's it called?

Emetophobia.

There we go.

So I actually, when I first got diagnosed, I called you and I was like, help me.

... confidentiality, but I'm really curious, like what sort of shifts happen?

Um, I, I'm just thinking of a recent, a recent client actually, who had really bad emetophobia.

Emetophobia is a, a, like, a very, very severe fear of vomiting, and he had it to the extent that he just wasn't going into school a l- a lot.

And another one I'm thinking of who wasn't going into work because of that.

And of course, what happens is there's a huge fear around it and, um, what I would say is a lot of conventional treatments, they target the actual vomiting, where that's really not helpful for people.

Yeah.

I've heard a lot of, um, like, I know Ken Goodman does a lot of that in his emetophobia manual, like, a lot of, like, what are some responses to your, he calls it, like, your anxiety monster, right?

Mm-hmm.

But for me, it'd be like, yeah, what is, what's my response to when my brain is doing the things I trained it to do up to this point?

Um, but I think these non-engaging ones, the non-engagement responses are good.

So you wanna go first?

Uh, do you want it to be like specifically emetophobia, or all around?

Yeah, let's start with that.