Hello everyone! I hope you all have had a relatively panic-free evening so far! =)
I have a question that I don't think has been answered anywhere, so here it goes:
Like everyone else, I hate vomiting. I do fear it, but if it was a choice between death and the stomach flu (a popular analogy I've seen in other emet forums), I would chose stomach flu. I don't get any anxiety from any associations with vomit (words, images, etc), and I don't watch what I'm eating. Generally, I don't give it much thought when I'm at home or out with friends.
The only time it seems to pop up is when I'm in glass, sitting there listening to a lecture. Then I may/may not get panic attacks that I can manage, but my thoughts always consist of "What if I get sick in the middle of class?" Mind, it's not feel sick and actually doing it that sets me off into a panic, it's doing it front of others. That's when my emetophobia shows, and that's when I plan ways to escape 'in case'. Oddly, it also depends on my teacher. If I have a teacher I am comfortable with I don't think about it much. If the teachers is strict or tough, I freak out over what they may think if it happens
Now I know social anxiety is a type of disorder in which your thoughts/actions are consumed by what other people think/the judging factor.
So my question is this: Do you think I actually have a weird form of Social Anxiety, or am I wrong and it is emetophobia? if it is SA, what do you think I can about it?