Just to note: I'm a 14 year old male. This may help to give more specifically targetted advice to someone of my age. If you wonder why I type in such a sophisticated manner, it's because I probably have Asperger's syndrome and my vocabulary is more developed than average. I say probably as I haven't been professionally diagnosed, but I am getting diagnosed soon. I prefer to type like this.
Hi.
After an appointment with my GP about my severe emetophobia in early February (which in turn causes me to eat very little and not gain weight, which my mum is very worried about for obvious reasons), I've been given a referral to the hospital, but the appointment's on March 21st. I'm hoping when I go there I can get some sort of therapy for the phobia and chronic nausea/stomach spasms I have, but the time since the GP appointment and until the hospital appointment has been the WORST. I'm not sure if it's the anxiety that the appointment is so far away, but I seem to be feeling a lot worse now (in terms of depression at school, anxiety, and the actual nausea. Infact I was nauseous while writing this post). I have no idea what I can do in the meantime to calm myself down/get rid of this nausea. It's incredibly scary. What can I do up until the appointment with the hospital? Also by the way I should be getting a diagnosis of Asperger's syndrome at the hospital too, as I suspect strongly that I have that as well. I also have OCD and agoraphobia, amongst many other phobias. I have most of these mental conditions, you know the ones that are so strongly related (i.e. anxiety, depression, OCD, ADHD, autism spectrum disorders, phobias, etc. you know the kind). And although when I get these nauseous episodes they pass after about an hour or two and I'm never sick, I'm still in constant fear that it'll happen. I do try to reassure myself that I know what my problem is and I'm never actually sick with it, but I still get scared. Other things I've tried/am trying include ginger tea (with powdered ginger, not fresh ginger. I hope to try it with fresh ginger when my mum actually buys it), breathing techniques, thinking positively, acupressure, not eating, etc. Regarding "not eating", it seems to help when I make myself hungry (as in, the hunger you get when your tummy rumbles). It's evidence that the nausea is more psychologically orientated, as I feel when there's nothing/very little in my stomach, there's nothing to throw up, and this seems to relieve it, but I still can't be sure if it is psychological, and I still have the constant nausea and fear/anxiety (which I have to endure day in day out, and it's not pleasant), and I just want a cure. Can anyone help?