Cheers for the replies. They really help.
One other question I have is, when she gives me the pictures to look at my anxiety never goes above 4 or 5 but she doesn't calm me down? She just moves onto...

I know but i don't know what to do in CBT. We have been looking at pictures and they're not making me anxious at all really.. so now i feel my anxiety isn't to do with vomit at all. But when i feel...

I keep asking her if I can get completley better, better than I have ever been and she just sort of says "I can't gaurantee anything but CBT is meant to be the best therapy". Then she says things...

I have been having CBT and hypnotherapy for a few weeks now. I must say i'm improving. LITTLE tiny bits. But the thing is, everyone always says it's about finding the right therapist?
I don't know...

I don't know if others bother me... they used to when i was younger.
I just watched an episode of "I'm A Celeb Get Me Out Of Here" and one woman was forced to drink some maggot water or something...

I am going to CBT for about 16 sessions. My therapist said that we are going to start exposing me to vomit. She asked what i find most scary and what i find least scary and to build a hierachy from...

But Lisa i don't seem to be scared of others vomiting as much anymore because i've sort of become used to it being a teenager and seeing so many drunks vomit. Obviously i cant be near anyone when...

i just CANT break out of this vicious panic attack cycle.
I had one really bad one yesterday that made me call 999 and now i just feel like im about to have one any minute.

i really think i...

Lisa thanks for commenting.
How did you get better?
I'm having CBT and hypnotherapy. But I don't think my anxiety is really that much about emetophobia... I am deathly afriad of vomiting but I feel...

One last thing,

no-one has answered why we're treating the symptom of my anxiety and not the root cause?

Do i just need to trust my therapists?

Thanks everyone.
I will leave this site now as I know it isn't helping. It's just SO hard not to come on here when having the worst panic attack you've had in ages and feel like all your progress...

Its just i work so hard to get out of these cycles of panic attacks and then i will do fairly well for a while then suddenly a HUGE panic attack comes and i feel im back to square one. Cant eat...

Andrilla said i will never be 100 % cured on my " am i back to square " post. now im down

Did you get it free on the Nhs? i am only allowed 16 sessions on the nhs and sage keeps saying i willl need more than that so now i think i can never get better

but Sage is "cured"?

bit depressing thinking you can never get cured isn't it?
how long did u do CBT for?

So are you fully recovered or not?
Because some people say CBT can "cure" you but it doesn't sound like you are cured?

Thanks Andrilla.
Do you think I should come off here altogether to get better? I was doing so well but when I had another panic attack I just couldn't stop myself. I REALLY need to stay off here i...

Right, I started a terrible relapse of all my anxiety about a month ago. It was really bad, couldn't eat, felt gaggy all the time, frequent constant panic attacks, felt so down I wanted to die. Drove...

Thanks Butterflies, but the thing that causes it is vomit? So what could I gradually expose myself to other than vomit?

Also, i got slightly better and now i'm terrible again, i feel im back to...

But whatever I do I just can't believe I can get better? I have been like this nearly all my life and my dad and grandma both have anxiety. I have TRIED and tried to make myself believe i can get...

also my CBT therapist said it wouldn't be any different if she was there or not. We'd still be doing the exposure... so surely if i've done all I can then I'm never going to get better??

Or can...

I just keep thinking no... so does that mean i can't...

I don't know what I am scared of and not scared of.

I think maybe i am still scared of watching videos etc i just ignore it?
Dunnoo
i just feel i'm never going to be able to get rid of this for...

But since she has mentioned exposure, my anxiety has gotten worse. I just don't want to do it at all. I know I HAVE to but i'm dreading it now. I have a friend who got completley better through just...

Also, I don;t just worry about vomiting! I have panic attacks about being in inclosed shopping centres that i can't easily get out of. I panic about lots of things... so if we're treating just the...