I'm happy I have found this forum after gooleing "emetophobia".
I am 29 years old and seemed to have this phobia since I was very little.
It has just gotten worse over the past 6 years, to the point that I have to now make excuses to leave my job, because somebody has or just had the stomach flu.
(like today) and in driving home, I just had a meltdown...i left work because of the possibility of one of my coworkers giving me the same bug she just had two days ago...not only that, but I am her manager and I basically told her she had to stay home when she told me she was ready to come back. I just feel awful.
Not only that, but I have an 8 year old, and I make it very clear to her that she has to be extremely germ conscious while she is in school...and now I see her getting upset if she touches her face with dirty hands. and I am the one that is causing it.

...I can't touch any food to my hands, even after washing them because there might be a bad germ on my hands and cause me the stomach flu...so at times, I have to throw my meals away...I clean everynight, I clorox and Lysol constantly, I wash my hands so often they ache, and are dry and cracked...If anybody near me coughs or sneezes I jump away..
It's just so awful. It's ruined my life...my personality....everything.
I don't know whether psychotherapy would help, or possibly being hypnotized...forget the exposure therapy altogether...I just really don't know where to go from here. I want my life back, and I want my daughter to live a happy carefree life withought my worries put on her.
If anybody has any advice, please let me know.
I want to be me again!!