Emetophobia Hypnotherapy

Clinical Hypnotherapy is an effective way of removing the fear and anxiety behind fear of sickness, it can effectively remove the emotion behind the learnt pattern and slowly and calmly re-introduce the behaviours and activities that are avoided as a result of the fear. It is a chance to get your life back and take control of your thoughts and emotions.

What is Emetophobia?

Fear of Sickness or Emetophobia is an extreme aversion to sick, this can cause enormous distress to the individual. The problem can vary between individuals but it can relate to the act of being actually being sick or being near someone else who is to feeling nausea. It can also transfer to more general issues which cause upset at the thought of sickness, including hearing that someone else was sick.

Symptoms can include:

Avoiding eating certain foods - this may mean having a list of 'safe' foods, or avoiding eating at certain times or days. It may also effect where you eat, perhaps not eating any where other than your own home or where you can see the food and ingredients. This can take a huge toll on your life, additional planning, avoidance and anxiety, and potentially disordered eating.

Work anxiety - there may be anxiety around sharing office space and toilets, kitchen facilities. It can create embarrassment over food choices and trying to hide habits and coping behaviours. There may be additional anxiety if collegues are unwell or you work in a public facing environment.

Avoiding social situations - dinner parties, eating out, social gatherings, public transport, pubic venues are just some of the challenges where fear of vomitting is an issue. Many people avoid drinking too much alcohol or being around drunk people.

Compulsive behaviours - checking use by dates and physical signs of food, checking for signs of illness in yourself or others, cleaning, hand washing, as well as repetitive and negative obsessional thoughts around these behaviours.

How does Emetophobia start?

It is possible that it started at some point due to a bad experience, where sickness was involved either by the indivudal or someone close to them. It doesnt always have to have been an experience it may be learnt from others who dislike being sick or from a general anxiety which transfered into health related anxiety.

How can hypnotherapy help with Emetophobia

Solutions focused hypnotherapy can free you from the intense fear that you have developed surrounding sickness, allowing you live freely, visiting places that you used to avoid, eating out at restaurants, remaining calm when faced with illness.

Hypnotherapy allows you to overcome this fear in a very calm, considerate but fast and effective way, allowing you to access and reprogram your thoughts at a subconscious level. We will give your brain some alternative and preferred stories which it will learn are possible, reframing the fear and creating an new perspective. You will learn to regulate your emotional response, and to send a new calm signal to your mind and body, overriding the old fear response.

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