"How true do you think it is that emets don't v* if they are sick. i really want to believe it."

Ask yourself: when was the last time you v*. If it was a long time ago or if you do it rarely, then chances are when you are sick you will probably only get d* like most of the people on this site. I think everyone's stories here are pretty good proof that for us it's rare.

I know personally I've been n* uncountable times in the last 7 1/2 years, came (what I felt was!) VERY close and still have not v* since 1999. I have been exposed to all sorts of nauseating things, too, including sv*, bad food and water (I've been to poor areas of South America, the Caribbean and the Middle East for service projects when everyone else on my team got sick and v*) sailing, long airline flights with other people actually v* on my plane, and during all of these times I really had to fight n* terribly in some form or another but I never v* once. Much of it is mind over matter, I'm convinced, and calming yourself down or using anti-emetics (I only use ginger) can help, too. Being well informed helps stave off panic attacks.

I guess what Sage (a brilliant psychologist who frequents this site) would tell you is that the point is not to prevent yourself from v* but to ease your fear of it in the chance that you must do it at some point. But even Sage, who has been cured of emet for some time now has only v* once since her cure. I think it's something some of us are just born with, and if you rarely v* when you feel n* then you were probably born like that, too.