Hello there,
Ive actually cruised these forums before but have only just become a member!
I am male and am 14 and i live in leeds.
I will outline my story of coming to terms with this overpowering phobia:
I cant pinpoint the exact cause of me getting this but i have got 2 suspicions:
(a) older brother
(b) One event in which i v*
(a) Unlike a lot of the people on this site ( i think!) my brother too
has worse emetophobia than me and i think ive kind of got it easy
somehow because my brother never v* and has never been you know what
since i can remember. I cant bear to admit i have this phobia but
sometimes i just have too.
(b) Unlikely source but one time i v* quite ferociously in what i think
might have been projectile. [sorry about graphicness] But somehow that
is not the cause for me but i do knoe that it started when i was fairly
young, about 8-10 maybe? I dont know exact dates.
I have no social problems or agrophobia, and other things much to my relief.
In the most part i am a normal high school pupil who does best in all
subjects that i can and i DO NOT! let my emetophobia spoil my learning.
I want to be in a band and am in the process right now of
creating one. And like i said before when im making my band and doing
gigs etc. im not going to let emet stand in my way because music is a
way of me letting go and enjoying myself as i have done for years.
i go out every single week with my mates we muck about, kick a ball
about, play computer games and the like. And i dont think about it much
when im at my mates either. Im going to head to the best university i
can and i am going to enjoy my student life no-matter what comes up!
So i have got a moderate control of my emetophobia at the moment and i
try not to obsess about a lot of things, panick and run away from
things.
So compared to a lot of people on this website i have not had a hard
life at all! And i wish all emets could live in comfort and
peacefulness knowing that they have know phobias.
Religion is also important for me and i am a great believer and am going to attend church more regularly as i get older.
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