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| In worst case scenarios, people with the phobia tend to avoid eating out, socializing and going to parties. They may hardly eat at all and that's why many are often diagnosed as ], but not ] as this illness involves the ] of vomiting. Emetophobics will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid becoming violently sick ("vomit continence," Nicolette Heaton-Harris & Linda Dean (2007), Emetophobia, ISBN 1843105365, p. 20), or seeing someone else becoming sick. | In worst case scenarios, people with the phobia tend to avoid eating out, socializing and going to parties. They may hardly eat at all and that's why many are often diagnosed as ], but not ] as this illness involves the ] of vomiting. Emetophobics will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid becoming violently sick ("vomit continence," Nicolette Heaton-Harris & Linda Dean (2007), Emetophobia, ISBN 1843105365, p. 20), or seeing someone else becoming sick. | ||
| Emetophobia is a 'cloaking' phobia ie.it is sometimes hidden within another fear. An example is the fear of flying - a person may feel very uncomfortable whilst airborne but the true fear may be that of themselves or others vomiting during a bumpy flight. Similarly social phobia - a person's reluctance to visit someone's house for dinner may be related to their fear of vomiting in public and the subsequent embarrassment suffered. | |||
| The root causes of emetophobia lie in early childhood. Incidents witnessed or experienced by a young child can cause long term anxieties and fears that carry forward into adulthood. A parent displaying a negative reaction to a young child who has been sick can lead the child to believe that the act of being sick is 'naughty' and hence cause that child to become fearful of the act of vomiting . | |||
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| *Nicolette Heaton-Harris, "Living With Emetophobia: Coping With an Extreme Fear of Vomiting" (2007) ISBN 1843105365 | *Nicolette Heaton-Harris, "Living With Emetophobia: Coping With an Extreme Fear of Vomiting" (2007) ISBN 1843105365 | ||
| *David Samson, D.Adv.Hyp. Clinical Hypnotherapist, London | |||
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Emetophobia is the irrational fear of vomiting, being around others who are vomiting, and/or the vomit itself.
In worst case scenarios, people with the phobia tend to avoid eating out, socializing and going to parties. They may hardly eat at all and that's why many are often diagnosed as anorexic, but not bulimic as this illness involves the induction of vomiting. Emetophobics will go to extraordinary lengths to avoid becoming violently sick ("vomit continence," Nicolette Heaton-Harris & Linda Dean (2007), Emetophobia, ISBN 1843105365, p. 20), or seeing someone else becoming sick.
Emetophobia is a 'cloaking' phobia ie.it is sometimes hidden within another fear. An example is the fear of flying - a person may feel very uncomfortable whilst airborne but the true fear may be that of themselves or others vomiting during a bumpy flight. Similarly social phobia - a person's reluctance to visit someone's house for dinner may be related to their fear of vomiting in public and the subsequent embarrassment suffered.
The root causes of emetophobia lie in early childhood. Incidents witnessed or experienced by a young child can cause long term anxieties and fears that carry forward into adulthood. A parent displaying a negative reaction to a young child who has been sick can lead the child to believe that the act of being sick is 'naughty' and hence cause that child to become fearful of the act of vomiting .
References
- Nicolette Heaton-Harris, "Living With Emetophobia: Coping With an Extreme Fear of Vomiting" (2007) ISBN 1843105365
- David Samson, D.Adv.Hyp. Clinical Hypnotherapist, London