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    Default Can't tap into my brain

    So, I think my emet started as young as 8. I was such an worrisome child I guess. Mom says I worried about everything. Well, before I knew I had emet or anxiety, I was experiencing anxiety symptoms. One of the first things that happens to me, is I get a kind of numbness in my cheeks/face area. I start to swallow a lot and my hands get tingly.
    Somehow my 8 year old mind trained this to equal being nauseated.
    Since that was what I feared, and caused my anxiety, I assumed that's what it was. I didn't know any different and since last time I vomited, I had anxiety symptoms after I just added them up.

    So now I obviously know that is not nausea at all. It's 100% anxiety symptoms, I know and accept this as fact.

    But, even though I know this I can't get my anxiety to stop. For two hours now I have felt "nauseated" which I'm really not at all!! It's like my mind has a mind of its own. lol

    I'm not sure if this even makes sense, but my boyfriend and I are just curious as to why, even if I know it's not nausea, I still panic?

    Is there some part of my brain I am just failing to tap into?
    Last edited by crd08; 02-08-2011 at 10:56 PM.
    “Happiness can be found even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.”

    “We are the girls with anxiety disorders, filled appointment books, five-year plans. We take ourselves very, very seriously. We are the peacemakers, the do-gooders, the givers, the savers. We are on time, overly prepared, well read, and witty, intellectually curious, always moving. We pride ourselves on getting as little sleep as possible and thrive on self-deprivation. We drink coffee, a lot of it. We are on birth control, Prozac, and multivitamins. We are relentless, judgmental with ourselves, and forgiving to others. We never want to be as passive-aggressive as our mothers, never want to marry men as uninspired as our fathers. We are the daughters of the feminists who said, “You can be anything,” and we heard, “You have to be everything.”

 

 

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