Hi , I see a doctor once a week for it and he tells me that once
your over your phobia It's not as if you will love it. You will be
turned off by it but you won't be anxious about it , you won't...

Hey how are you? Doing any better. They were at a concert were they parting?

Carri ,

It sounds like anxiety because if you were going to get sick you would
have. Adleast that is what my doctor always tells me. Your
associating the pill with not getting sick, thinking if...

Eternity, How did you use your cutting for attention since your
emets? I was so ashamed of it I hid it from everyone. I was my
secret, it helped me cope when I was angry and was too afraid to...

Thanks for the e-mails. My cutting wasn't from the emets it was
from not being assertive, I'm learning to be more assertive. It's
hard to with my mom, it must be the catholic school up bringing
ya...

I just read what fabpaulas' dad thinks about the phobia alot of people
say stuff like that like "oh you think you have it bad." In
therapy I would tell the doctor i was ashamed of my illness and he...

Do any emets here suffer from depression and (this is embarrassingsmileys/smilies_09.gif and i'm really opening up so please be gentlesmileys/smilies_25.gif)
self mutilation before the emets or...

i'm terrifed of winter too. I'm not looking
forward to it at all. Iwant to get better and hope other people
better. I try to be up beat about it. But i dread winter. I don't
wish the week away...

i don't eat meat , not because of emet s I thougth it would make me
feel better fighting off depression. A way to change my life style,
it's been eight years not eating meat. Now with the emets
in...

Welcome to the site! i'd like to believe my phobia
helps me from avoiding the deed but my husband and I have been together
for twelve years married for four and he hasn't gotten sick beside from...

Is your phobia worse in the winter than in the summer? I hate December through mid March.

Certain things bother people more than others and
sometime we just don't know why. Half the time i can't even
explain it to other people i just know what makes me uncomfortable and
what doesn't....

Hi cammii, If you want your family to understand you, e-mail sage,
there is a print out on this site you can give your mom to read so she
takes you seriously. You can get better. Good luck !...

I don't have a question. I just want to tell anyone who will read this
that i just went on the photo album part of this site and I brought
tears to my eyes, everyone is so beautiful and looks so...

It could be a number of things gentics, nature verses nurture.
Maybe things are so easy for us here we have too much time to
think. If i had to worry about when i was going to get my next
meal or...

A good thing about the phobia for me would be I don't drink
alcohol. It's o.k. in moderation but i don't like how it makes me
feel . If i really think about it though i never really liked
drinking...

Sage thaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaak you !!!!! Same thing my doctor says!smileys/smilies_39.gif

Twenty one years. Knock on wood .

I have a great book for anyone you does'nt want to v in there
dreams. It's called lucid dreams guiding your own dreams .
Before you go to bed you slowly take deep relaxing breaths and tell...

How many people out there want to get over the phobia but are
afraid to? How many people would rather just avoid it and just
get by?

I don't think you will get sick. My doctor tells me all the time
to do things that I think will make me sick to test it out to prove I
won't.

It is difficult at times.

You can try it with...

Jenneh,



Please don't dispair, you can get through this. I do know
how you feel. My doctor as cancelled on me while i'm not my way
there . I just had a friend just get out of the hospital...

I agree with Jenneh, My husband got me to get help but he still doesn't understand. He getstired of it when i get weirded out by any physical feelings i get upset over.


I think your boyfriend is...

Anyone out there have a friend or family member who won't even speak to them anymore because of the phobia?


It's happened to me. My sister in law will not speak to me . She thinks I see a...