Emetaphobia help-anyone else?

[Crystal89]

Hi Everyone. I need some help because I'm tired of living this way. I am an emetaphobia sufferer. I think this comes from my mother as she too has a fear of vomit. I've managed it fairly well all these years but this past year has been awful. My husband came home with a stomach bug last November and it tore my world up. Thankfully, I didn't catch it. But the anxiety I suffered from the fear was worse than how my poor husband was. Time passed and then winter led into spring, then summer and the further away I got from that situation, the lesser my fear became. But we're now back in November and everyone is coming down with stomach bugs. And my anxiety is right back up there. I know the rational side of tummy bugs, I know (hopefully) how best to avoid but this in its self has made me fearful of germs. But that aside, I feel confined by my fear. If I hear someone's child is sick or someone I know is, that's it, my anxiety is sky high. Today, for instance, I was at the office (I go in once a week) and my colleague tells us her partner is under the weather and started getting an upset stomach. My mind instantly thinks the partner probably has a bug. But not only that, today I touched my colleagues computer mouse. So my irrational thinking is telling me that Im now at risk because of this. Which is ridiculous. So, I'm hoping I might find other emetaphobia sufferers who live a better life than perhaps you once did and how did you get there? (without actually being sick yourself)

Thank you. 🙂