Quote Originally Posted by julybabe View Post
I'm exactly the same. I thought that I was the only one who has developed this phobia for this reason opposed to having had a previously traumatic v@g experience.
Yeah, our traumatic experience was the panic attack. I didn't know what a panic attack was, or that I was having one, so I assumed I was feeling so deathly ill because I was sick with a stomach virus which I thought would go away in 24 hrs. When it didn't, I thought okay it's a 48 hr bug. When it still didn't go away I thought, well, alright, I'll be fine in a week. And so on. But I never got better. The "stomach virus" never went away because that's not what it was, I had developed panic disorder which is what I was subsequently diagnosed with. Maybe during those few weeks before finding out I was having panic attacks, maybe I talked myself into thinking that was what a stomach virus felt like and scared myself... and developed a vomit phobia. I wonder had I known I was having a panic attack right from day 1, if I would have become emetophobic. I'll never know.

I hope that makes sense lol. I was rambling there thinking back.