Hey there, I am a new member of this site. I guess I have been an emetophobe since I was in middle school. I got sick once with a bug, and after that I became terrified of v*. It was really bad in high school; I wouldn't eat for fear of getting sick, and I had trouble going to school. I was obsessive about hand washing and got scared when around sick people. It went away for a while after I came down with food poisoning, and for the past couple of years I have been okay with stomach sickness; I have gotten sick several times from being hungover and it hasn't bothered me much, but I have not had the stomach bug since that time in middle school. Over the past couple of weeks, it seems my fear has resurfaced, and I am now horrified again that I am going to get sick, and I have been very anxious over this. But I think that it isn't necessarily a fear of v* itself, it is really a fear of the stomach bug overall. I can deal with sickness when maybe I have drank too much or eaten something weird, but the idea of having a stomach virus is what is killing me. I am dreading the day that I contract this again. Any tips on how to deal with this anxiety?