Help
Help for emetophobia
There is a way out of this, it is well established, and you can start today — on your own with the manual, or alongside a coach who has taken hundreds of people through it.
What the help actually is
The Emetophobia-Free manual is the emetophobia edition of Rob Kelly’s Thrive Programme. It uses the same tools and techniques, written entirely around a fear of being sick, and everything in it is grounded in the current research.
Anybody willing to put the time and the effort in can be rid of this phobia for good. That is not a slogan — it is what the effort is for, and it is why the programme spends as long as it does on the thinking styles and beliefs underneath the fear rather than on the sick itself.
On your own, or with somebody
You can buy the manual from the shop and work through it at home at your own pace. Plenty of people do exactly that and never speak to anybody.
Or you can go through the same programme with a licensed coach, who will bring it to life and tailor it to you. Find a coach here.
What happened to the last 62 people we asked
We surveyed 62 people who had completed the programme. Every one of them had rated their symptoms as having a severe impact on daily life before they started.
The full figures are on the book page.
Where to start
If you are not sure this applies to you, start with what emetophobia is. If you know it does, what treatment works is the next thing to read, and the recovery stories are worth half an hour.
Bella Ramsey had this too.
And came out the other side.
“It’s not controlling my life anymore.”
The BAFTA-winning actor — The Worst Witch, Game of Thrones, The Last of Us — was housebound at one point as a teenager, and took travel sickness tablets and antacids to get through a working day on set. They had tried self-help books, CBT and hypnotherapy. None of it worked.
Bella went through this programme, and describes no longer thinking about sickness, no longer being frightened of it, and no longer letting it decide what they can and can’t do. They talk about all of it, openly, in their own words.
Listen to the episode →
Where to next?
Everything else you might want to read.