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Phobias
40's(f)
I saw the advice you gave someone else with this fear and as I asked this question generally sometime ago, and got nothing in the way of a helpful answer, I thought I would ask you.
I have a phobia of vomiting, me or other people. I have tried counselling, hypnotherapy, NLP and confrontational therapy. Nothing has worked. I have run out of ideas on how to beat this. Do you have any other suggestions on things to try? If so, how? Thanks.
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First of all in all the different types of counselling have you discovered the root of your phobia? Usually it is the biggest key to helping you to solve the issue. Now you also need to seperate your fear, there is a difference between other people vomiting and you vomiting. I as a professional who often works in hospitals can't handle other people vomiting, so leave that one aside for now.
As for you vomiting, without knowing why you have this fear I would suggest that you perhaps try cognitive therapy. I have seen it work on similar fears, basically this takes you back to events in the past where your fear is rooted and helps you to re-create memories so that your fear is no longer an issue.
I hope this helps somewhat, if you know the root of your fear then I may be able to give you a few other hints and tools.
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So it sounds to me like your fear is more rooted in the fear of disappointing the men in your life and even sending them away, this is obviously sub conscious as your logical mind knows this won't happen. What I would suggest you do is first is to look at this a different way your husband gets upset not only because no one likes to see others throw up but because he hates seeing his wife ill or in pain. Also write out a list of worse case scenerios throwing up will not cause you to die, it will not cause you to lose the love of your husband its unpleasant yes but not life threatening. Write it on a piece of paper and put it somewhere where you see it first thing in the morning and last thing before bed.
Hope this helps a little.
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