Stomach Anxiety?

[icetea]

hello i am a student in high school right now a senior, and I have been having a big issue with my everyday life and its been holding me back for 2 years now..

I have had anxiety and it mostly affects my stomach. I have had tests and they said everything was good. So my parents would think im just lying to not go to school but that isn't true.

It still affects me to this day When i am in school i don't eat at all because I am afraid that i will throw up.. I think I have had this experience after being carsick from a ride 2 years ago that may have changed me to feel this way. My dietitian told me to eat something little to my everyday diet which i do. like nuts and raisin and all that. Im fairly skinny for my age but not anorexic i want to gain more weight and get my life together but i think i have emetophobia.. and I really need help

at school its hard to sit still without fidgeting around or distracting myself to not feel like i might throw up

[icetea]

At home i can eat like pizza and burgers and all sorts of things that i am stress free from but when i know i will be going out somewhere I don't like to eat big meals or sometimes nothing until i know i am not going anywhere. the nuts and raisins part was meant for when at school*

[Kkimm]

Hi

It is really tough to feel like that but it is a normal reaction to anxiety. You can eat normally at home so you will be fine. Try to distract yourself when you start to worry about being sick and as long as you can eat nuts and raisins you will do OK. Gradually add to it and keep on eating normally at home. If you do not worry about it too much it will pass with time.

My best wishes

Kim

[Readysetshi]

I tend to have anxiety in public places and places i just don’t want to be. I don’t know if you just hate school or had a bad experience there that subconsciously just upsets your stomach. But ik to help with my anxiety i have been “angrily” asking myself... “why do they care so much about what I’m doing?” Like just asking that question when i think people are judging me or im feel anxious around others. Basically i am reminding myself that I shouldn’t matter that much to others because if i do then they have the issue, not me.

[icetea]

thank you for the suggestions..

It's been gradually getting better for some time now.

I take things easy but it feels weird how people can jump and be excited with friends in public but all i think about is getting nausea and feeling ill when coming across something big like that

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I payed attention to my limits so I'm fine but im afraid i will never be the same again. lively

[icetea in reply to icetea]

i haven't thrown up in 2 years since some carsickness incidents and whenever im out in public i feel like it can happen at any time.

I think my main issue is having emetophobia..

fear of vomiting thats my big issue.

it isn't just anxiety im confident outside of the thought of throwing up and that's why i eat little.

[Readysetshi in reply to icetea]

Well the worst care scenario is that you won’t be lively ever again. Don’t let that happen. Out of your ENTIRE life as a whole make it a goal, even if you have to fake it at first to have 2 weeks worth of liveliness. This is a goal you absolutely cannot fail at. So your above statement surely cannot be true. Maybe you won’t sustain that liveliness but who does? The world is cruel so it will take more effort for that feeling if tht makes sense