How finding out that my lifelong irrational fear was actually a common phobia changed my perspective: It took me 25 years of struggling to realize I wasn’t alone, and what I considered to be an unexplainable irrational fear is actually a known and common phobia.
Emetophobia is defined as the fear of vomit, but for those who struggle with it every day — it is so much more than that. It is the activities or events that don’t get attended as a child.
It’s the sleepaway camps, the hockey games, the slumber parties, the class trips, the high school parties, the movie theaters and the inability to try new foods, or try alcohol or riding a roller coaster.
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