I have been emet for as long as I can remember. It has morphed from being afraid of v*** myself to being afraid of others v***. My 10 year old daughter is definately emetophobic (hey, takes one to know one!). The symptom that is most frightening is her obsession with stomach sensations. I have read that emets commonly cannot differentiate feelings of true nausea with other feelings and that many do not even know what it means to actually be nauseaus. I never had this problem, even as a child. I can tell the difference. Anyway, during any given week, for one or two nights on average, she will tell me right before bed that she doesn't feel good, that her tummy hurts, etc. (Of course, you aIl can imagine how this makes ME feel!) Last night she was worried because hed had several loose bm's (can I say that?) and was afraid of diar****. I can see the terror in her eyes.I know what anxiety or panic attacks look like and she is certainly there. She physically shakes. She has verbalized her fear to me - she associates nighttime, and sleping in her own room especially when her father and I are already in bed and the house is quiet with getting sick. Then she may go weeks w/no problems, fear at all. She knows I have some kind of problem w/v*** as I have told her in an off hand kind of way as to not make a big deal out of it but I know she senses something deeper. My husband has had to travel quite a bit and I have on several occasions been alone w/her or her sister as they have been sick and it's hard to hide something like this. Last Sat. night when we were vacationing with my parents I had to take my husband to the emergency room. We suspected it was kidney stones (it was) and he had been in severe pain, nauseaus and v*** once before we got in the car. She knew something was up when she saw us get into the car w/the bowl. Fortunately my mom stayed at the house w/her & her sis. Needless to say, I was a wreck but again hiding it pretty well. I think that incident may have caused this last bout of emet for her. My question to all of you is how do I initiate a conversation w/her today w/out making things worse? How much do I reveal about my own struggle? She is very open w/me and doesn't seem to want to hide this as I did for so long. Lastly, is there any way I can "catch this early on" before it gets any worse? I think I know the answer to that already. She hasn't developed any food obsessions (I never did really) and I hope it doesn't get to that. I have such tremendous guilt that I am responsible for this although I can find no evidence that my relationship w/my parents as a young child casued my own emet. It just seemed to happen, like I was born with it. Anyway, thanks for listening, This is my very first post.