Are you afraid to speak in public? Does the thought of getting on a plane make your throat close? Are you tormented by fears of throwing up at the next dinner party some hapless individual invites you to? There is good news and bad. The bad news is that you may have a phobia. The ...
To better understand what life is like with Emetophobia it is important to go over what a normal day for an emetophobe might look like. I will be chronicling what a day in my life might look like. I wake up every morning and quickly scan my body to see if I am feeling ill ...
I hate driving in cars. I can drive in a car by myself with absolutely no problem, but when I am in a car, with other people, I go into panic mode. The longer the trip, the worse the panic attack. You might ask yourself what I am even panicking about. The girl has emetophobia, ...
The TV character Monk has many phobias. He is afraid of frogs, heights, milk, and just about everything imaginable. It is comical to watch him deal with his phobias. However, there are many people who suffer from phobias for real. It is not comical in reality. Some of the most common phobias are fear of ...
My whole life I remember thinking that all pregnant women vomit. It was an inevitable part of life, then in college during my Philosophy of Women class a professor told us that she never got sick once when she was pregnant with her daughter. This news changed my life. Up until then I had vowed ...
I’ll get to the point, I’m scared to death of vomiting. It’s true, no one likes to vomit. But it scares me so much that I’ll do ANYTHING to avoid it. Strange as it may sound, this fear that I have is common and even has a name – Emetophobia. Very few “normal” people understand ...
When I was in second grade we started every morning in Miss Mack’s class with a song, “Good Morning to You.” I looked forward to school, to getting dressed up in my red plaid uniform skirt and seeing my friends. I loved those mornings until that fateful morning. I remember it like it was yesterday. ...
If you are looking at this list of the 10 most common phobias or fears, there is good news! You most likely do not have pinaciphobia, or rather, the fear of lists. 10. Necrophobia Zombies, mummies, frankenstein, vampires…people always seem to fear those that are dead, undead, or otherwise not living. Necrophobia, or the fear ...
I am afraid to vomit. I have emetophobia, which is the fear of vomit and vomiting. Emetophobia is hard enough to deal with on a daily basis, but when you are smack dab in the middle of stomach flu season and everyone you run into tells you about how they are getting over the norovirus, ...
