Wow thats amazing! Im so glad its working for you!! It just goes to show, that how our brains work to create a phobia pretty much subconsciously they can also be used consciously to make you feel...

aww Bless you! I used to be really bad, I was bad for months and stopped eating and felt ill all day. If I ate i felt ill, if i didnt I felt ill. I started dreaming i was being sick and would retch...

Hi Jennie, I had CBT a few years ago also in the UK and I found it really hard. I think they rushed me (good old NHS eh) and the therapist was useless. I had anxiety even sitting in the room with the...

Wow, to me being that ok with it would make me feel cured! I cant watch anything on TV unless I know theres no V in it, my partner sits with his finger on the remote the whole time just in case...

I remember that feeling of being trapped and on constant stress alert just waiting for something to happen. You cant relax and concentrate on what youre supposed to be doing! I was so glad when I got...

Well, if you feel physically fine, tell yourself you ARE fine and you will be fine, and your nerves will abate. Sounds like you need to take up crochetting. Its rather addictive and can be done...

Ive done this loads of times and never been ill with it. Mind you, I could eat a dead rat that had been festering behind the washer for 3 months and still be fine. Anywho, I think you ll be fine. The...

Visualising doing the thing you fear and imagining you making a complete success of it, and trying to really feel the types of feelings of success and confidence you would feel and playing it over...

I ate a burger out with my mum yesterday, and a little boy on the table next to us had a really bad coughing fit, and although I was scared he would make himself ill and couldnt look at him, I didnt...

oh, they told me it was CBT. Anyway, it really didnt work for me, it was far too abrupt. I might be able to handle small stages of it now im in a generally much stronger place to cope with smaller...

Well done! See, we are all the same and yet so different; Im fine with food now though there was a time I lost a lot of weight, I could only really force feed myself a piece of toast a day and...

Youre my hero. Thats totally brave. Im rather petrified of kids. They are spontaneous, especially with *it*. Well done!!!

Youre going to judge me seriously about this, and you have every right to as its disgusting, but anyway, Ive been trying to think what I did a bit risky and the most risky thing I can think of is...

Yeah you just need something to break the anxiety cycle, usually involving distraction. Try finding something really lovely to distract you, like looking at a lovely picture of a cute puppy! or...

My mum told me that drinking soda water is good for indigestion typed things (which is prollie what it is). However she also told me she once drove through where the bottom of a rainbow was shining...

lol i meant Jumper, not jump. Haha typing too fast

Well, when I was about 21 I went for cognitive behavioural therapy and was one of the worst things ever for me. The slow exposure to the *v buy listening to noises on a tape, then watching fake...

I used to eat really well done steaks etc but now I love them really rare!!! Putting yourself outside of your comfort zone slightly bit by bit and realising that its extremely unlikely that anything...

Eat some fairly plain toast or some fibrous soup (something veggie tastic) with bread and some peppermint tea. Keep away from fruit juice if you have the trots :D. If I have a party-night I can feel...

Lol, when I was really bad with stress over the phobia and was having tummy probs I used to BURP massively! Sorry girls and guys! And it made me feel better, I think it vibrated my tummy and was like...

I think you should concentrate on what you said about you feeling empowered after, like after all this worrying about getting sick, when it actually happened it wasnt as bad as we all worry about?...

I tell you what you do, you go to the doctor and get signed off sick with stress and try and get someone to educate you stupid boss about phobias. Dont you just hate it, these people who dont...

^^ honestly, you seem to be going through exactly what I was suffered at my worst. I felt hungry, then ate and had terrible cramps and hot and cold flushes for about half an hour and eventually I...

It makes me so sad to read about people suffering due to the stress and anxiety this phobia places on us. Ive been through the same thing and it is so stressfull, the constant fear of if you will...

Haha! Thank you! I feel like planning for it not to happen is a lot more sane-making than almost expecting it to and the sort of reverse psychology does start to work. Its almost as if youre...