Re: New member
Welcome, rblt. After reading your fairly long and detailed introductory message, I question whether you have emetophobia. If you read a little of our board, you will find that most of us are afraid of vomiting, not merely that an anxiety attack will cause vomiting. Many of us know that anxiety attacks won't cause vomiting but fear them anyway because they're part of what makes our phobia disabling.
The thought of vomiting or being exposed to something that can cause vomiting will send most of us into a tizzy that will last for days. You seem to handle vomiting (or "puking," as you call it) quite well. Good for you! (I'm not putting you down for your word choice; rare among emets, it's my favorite word too.)
I think you have something called social phobia. It's generally a fear of being judged by other people, a fear of entering into situations where you expect (or irrationally fear) that you'll be judged. Social phobics are afraid of puking in public but are not afraid of puking in private. Since you have no fear of vomiting privately but are obsessed with vomiting in public (and rightly so), you have social phobia and not emetophobia.
So my thought is that we're not the best place for you to get help for what bothers you. I think you might be better off in a place that deals with GAD or social phobia.
You might benefit from reading my Vomiting FAQ http://emetophobia.byethost15.com/vomiting.html to learn more about the mechanics of vomiting. Knowing the science behind how you puke can help you prevent it whether you're a social phobic who merely needs to get to a private place to puke or an emetophobe who would rather be nauseated for days than do the technicolor yawn.
Doug
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