Hello, I just joined this site, and I'm fed up with dealing with my emetophobia. I've had it since I was 13, and can point its beginning to the first time I had stage fright at a choir concert. I am now a choir director, so I am constantly dealing with this problem whenever I have stage fright (which is whenever I perform!). I also have trouble riding in long car trips because I used to get sick in the car all the time as a kid. Back then, it didn't bother me.

I also will always drive if I can, and will not want to ride with anybody else. In movie theaters and lecture halls, I always want to sit at the end of a row.

I want to have a baby someday but I am afraid to get pregnant because of the morning sickness and also because kids get sick a lot, so I am afraid I won't be a good mother if I can't help them when they're sick.

I will take any advice I can get... can anybody provide any encouragement for me? I am especially interested in talking to someone who has a job that aggravates this condition.

Thanks!