Eating out is hard for me, so that kind of puts a hinder on my social life. I've been better about it the last few months, but I still struggle.

My phobia gets worse when I'm in an anxious situation or out of my comfort-zones, so when I spend the weekend at my boyfriend's family's house, for example, I get "nauseous" and panic in front of them. They're understanding, but it's still so, so embarrassing for me.

I have the world's most confusing sleep schedule. This phobia totally affects my sleeping routine (or lack thereof!)

Pregnancy is the most wonderful thing in the world to me (to the point where I wanted to be an OB/GYN for a long time and it's still my "dream job"), and so is being a mother someday, but as of right now, I don't know how I would handle being exposed to contagious puking kids. Lol. I hope I have everything figured out with this phobia by then.

The worst, though, is it affects my ability to attend college. I was so scared of A) being exposed to a virus and B) being sick and not being at home that I wouldn't go. My bed is my safe-haven and just the thought of going to school brought on an anxiety attack. This last semester was so bad that I was too scared to leave my house and I had to drop all of my courses and wasted about two-grand. Not a great feeling.