Category: Fear

  • Can the Thrive Programme help with a fear of other people being sick?

    Other People Being Sick Can the Thrive Programme help with a fear of other people being sick? “I only fear other people vomiting. Can the Thrive Programme still help me?” The short answer is yes! Although most people with emetophobia primarily fear vomiting themselves, a minority only fear others being sick. Yet in both instances, the…

  • Cure your Emetophobia and Thrive – Chapter 1 preview..

    Cure your Emetophobia and Thrive – Chapter 1 preview.. Cure your Emetophobia and Thrive – Chapter 1 preview… Chapter one: Belief Systems This book is all about CHOICE. At the moment you probably don’t think you have much choice, and think you’re stuck with your symptom. Like most people, you probably believe you are powerless…

  • Emetophobia and Perfectionist Thinking

    Emetophobia and Perfectionist Thinking Below we discuss Emetophobia and Perfectionist Thinking and how they link. If you believe you are ‘a bit of a perfectionist,’ you will find it useful to find out how much of an impact this thinking style can have on your mental wellbeing. The below is from the section on the…

  • Catastrophic Thinking and Vomiting Anxiety (Emetophobia)

    Catastrophic Thinking and Vomiting Anxiety (Emetophobia) ‘I’d rather die than vomit’ – how does catastrophic thinking play a role in anxiety around vomiting? “Most people with a fear of vomit/SPOV [specific phobia of vomiting] evaluate vomiting as being 100% awful and if given the choice would prefer to die rather than to vomit.” (Veale, 2009)…

  • Why Believing in Fate is so Unhelpful

    Believing in Fate This is an Emetophobia resource from the Cure Your Emetophobia and Thrive handbook, on why a belief in fate can contribute towards your fear of being sick, as well as many other mental health issues. The harder a decision, the more unlikely or improbable something seems, the bigger the issue that gets…

  • Why are most Emetophobes Female?

    Why are most Emetophobes (people with a fear of being sick) Female? Research suggests that the prevalence of emetophobia (a fear of being sick) is somewhere between 0.1% and 8.8% of the population, and that 85-97% of sufferers are female. Why though? Well, contrary to popular belief, a fear of being sick (or any fears…

  • Common mistakes when trying to overcome Emetophobia

    Common mistakes overcoming Emetophobia Below is an update from the final chapter of The Thrive Programme‘s Cure Your Emetophobia and Thrive Workbook covering common mistakes people make when trying to overcome Emetophobia. Let’s have a look at areas you may not realise are holding you back in your effort to overcome emetophobia. Persistent and continuous effort (PACE)…

  • What Causes Emetophobia?

    What Causes Emetophobia? Is Emetophobia (a fear of being sick) caused by an event or experience? The short answer to this question is ‘no’ – a fear of being sick is not caused by an event or experience. Emetophobia – or any phobias for that matter – is created ‘internally’ (inside your mind) by the way…

  • Someone Being Sick

    Someone Being Sick Someone Being Sick ? Emetophobes have a fear of being sick themselves, or seeing someone vomiting. Most sufferers of emetophobia predominantly fear themselves being sick (vomiting) but many also fear someone throwing up around or near to them.  If someone is being sick near them, they tend to feel very out of…

  • Daily ‘Trembling Hands’ Emetophobia

    Daily ‘Trembling Hands’ Emetophobia DAILY ANXIETY AROUND SICKNESS LED THIS SUFFERER TO EXPERIENCE WHAT SHE CALLED ‘TREMBLING HANDS EMETOPHOBIA’ Many phobias and fears have very debilitating effects upon the sufferer… some suffer intense anxiety and stress, others live with a constant sense of worry and agitation.  One of my recent emetophobia trainees (a client who…