Quote Originally Posted by surfer777 View Post
Also, I think I've read that link before but it won't work for me. Everyone I talk to says you can't stop yourself from throwing up, but I'm convinced you can, not only because a couple of you have said you've done it, but because I'd like to think the mind is far more powerful than the body. If you really don't want to throw up, you don't have to, right?
Personally I think it depends. For one it depends on how strong your will NOT to throw up is (so that's probably why most non-emetophobic people will tell you it's not possible - most people don't have a strong enough desire/will not to do it like those with emetophobia do.

I've survived many stomach bugs without throwing up. Not because my body didn't try but because I fought so incredibly hard not to. I'd sit by the toilet and just put every ounce of energy I had into fighting the thing my body so badly was trying to do. It works most of the time.

However, I've had 1 stomach bug where it just didn't matter. There was no fighting it.

I don't say that to scare you, because having something that bad is RARE. I only bring it up because I don't think it's the best way to go about things - believing you can 100% guarantee that you won't every vomit because that's almost certainly not true. Chances are we will all have to face the big scary event of vomiting at some point in our lives. So instead of trying to figure out how you can get through life without vomiting, try to focus more on how you can prepare yourself to handle it with the least amount of anxiety and suffering possible. That's a much more realistic goals to focus your energy on.