Psychotherapy  in Wellingborough can treat the fear of being sick:

 The fear of being sick (emetophobia or emetaphobia) is one of the most common phobias in the world and is often consulted for:

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Thrive research results:  61 participants rated their symptoms as severe and 1 rated hers as significant. After completing Thrive, 55 participants rated their symptoms as having little to no impact and 7 rated their symptoms as modest. All participants also reported increased self-esteem and lower social anxiety following completion of the programme.

 

The fear of being sick is an intense fear of being sick or seeing others being sick. It can be known as vomitophobia, vomit phobia or sickness phobia. Emetophobia can be accompanied by other fears such as: gagging and choking. It is usually linked to some degree of social phobia. The fear of being sick is far more common than many people realise. It is not widely diagnosed but it is one of the most prevalent phobias in the world.

 

The fear of being sick tends to affect more women than men, and tends to have a very disabling effect on the sufferer. The fear of being sick can trigger many avoidance behaviours; quite often you have to avoid all places where there is a possibility of being sick or seeing others being sick; this can include eating out, parties, pubs, restaurants, clubbing, eating in front of others etc. Because of the association between eating and being sick, you can feel a little obsessive and worry excessively about what and where you will eat.

 

A lot of sufferers tend to view being sick as 'horrible and dirty'. Emetophobia can dictate your travel arrangements due to the strong association with travel sickness. Emetophobia really can have a profound effect on you and can affect almost every area of your life. 

  

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