Hi everyone,

I'm new here, I've been an emetophobic since I was about 3 (essentially as long as I remember) I'm 21 now, apparently a couple kids vomited in front of me at day care and ever since then I just can't handle it. I'm here because I just want to be able to talk to people that understand what it's like. It makes my life really miserable, especially because I have severe social anxiety because of it, I hate going out especially where there's alcohol involved (drunk people throwing up causes me the MOST anxiety because they're so unpredictable) and I hate going on planes, in buses, in cars and I hate going to theme parks because I'm scared people will throw up. Does anybody else have these problems? I am also struggling at the moment because heaps of people seem to think that I'm making it up and I wish people would understand that I REALLY can't help it.