How Jenni Overcame Emetophobia - Here's her video diary...

Jenni Steel is a young lady living in Thailand.  She has suffered from emetophobia - a huge fear of being sick - since she was a young girl.  Her video diary is helping show other sufferers how to overcome emetophobia with The Thrive Programme. She is supported by one of The Thrive Programme's licensed coaches.

Here is the video from her fifth week:

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You can completely overcome emetophobia, as many happy Thrivers like Jenni have done, using just the Cure Your Emetophobia and Thrive Workbook, which you can purchase from our shop.

Locate a licensed thrive programme Coach if you want additional guidance in how to overcome emetophobia, or visit our thrive support page.

We also have a Cure Your Emetophobia Young Person’s Editionand The Emetophobia Workbook for Teenagers Danish Edition

Cure Your Emetophobia and Thrive is backed up by extensive research into emetophobia and our own research survey into the efficacy of Cure Your Emetophobia and Thrive

What is Emetophobia?

Emetophobia is a fear of vomiting and/or other people vomiting. It is widespread; it is one of the most common phobias for which people consult The Thrive Programme.

Research into emetophobia suggests that around 0.1 to 8.8% percent of the population (Hout & Bouman, 2011) have a fear of being sick. These different figures probably depend upon whether the researchers assessed participants for any sort of ‘fear’ of vomiting or solely focused upon a severe ‘phobia’. These prevalence figures suggest that somewhere between around 63,000 and 5.5 million people in the UK suffer from emetophobia.

Emetophobia is known by many names (emetophobia, specific phobia of vomiting (SPOV), vomit phobia, sickness phobia, fear of vomiting…). It is associated with other fears and disorders, such as phagophobia (a fear of gagging, swallowing or choking), a fear of pregnancy, social anxiety and obsessional disorders such as OCD. People can fear vomiting themselves and/or others vomiting. Research suggests that 85-97% of emetophobes are women (Hout & Bouman, 2011; Lipsitz et al., 2001; Veale & Lambrou, 2006).