You'll probably relate to this. But obviously fear of being a passenger in cars is up on the list. I just never do that, ever.
As a side note, I had a part-time phobia from about the age of 5/6 until 16 when I had a break down and it went supernova and became full time. I'm now 33. Haven't thrown up for 20 years now.
So anyway, I resolved this one aspect of the issue by just never being a passenger and always driving. But that wasn't good enough for the phobia, and now, if I have a passenger who doesn't know about my phobia I start to get the, what I call, 'what if's. What if I feel sick while I'm driving. Then bam, the nausea starts. And I can feel full-on sensory hallucinatory nausea where I think I could throw up any second. This of course never happens.
It's the latest stage in my phobia's career - the day I realised that I could panic myself into feeling very nauseous. That had never happened before and it opens up a whole new world of grim. It's very clever, coz now all it needs to do is be in a situation where a 'what if' is presented, ideally in a situation that I can't get out of (usually social or some such) and the nausea can kick in giving full rise to a panic/nausea cycle. Ah the human brain/mind.
So, just wondering, anyone else's 'phobia software' updated itself with that particular mechanism?



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