Emetophobia and loss of control

[Theshadow]

It’s often been said that Emetophobes fear a loss of control, but that doesn’t make sense to me. I don’t fear sneezing or coughing or even having diarrhea. The only thing I fear when I have diarrhea is that I could also vomit since both can happen.

[PaisleyJane]

I think its because its something that only happens so rarely and when we were young the only part of the sensation we remember is the fear, confusion. You know what is like to sneeze because we do it all the time, you know what is like to go to the bathroom because we do it all the time.

I get pretty bad colds a lot and its weird that sometime I actually like getting them, I like the aches and pains and the fever and the vivid dreams and when the fever breaks. I get them so often sometimes I feel like its a reset.

But the only memory I have of V* is the flashbulb anxiety of it, I think its equal parts loss of control/ the unknown that triggers the anxiety.