emetophopia and other random nonsense

a blog for me, and a blog for us! ben and i decided this morning that we would create a new travel blog where we can both write about our experiences and beginning this adventure together. makes sense to me. it's last on the list right now, but i'll be sure to post the new link as we get it up and running. as for my few family and friends that have been checking up on me over the many years i've had this blog, the nonsense writing will continue:) starting with this...

Emetophobia (from the Greek etmos, to vomit, and φόβος (phóbos), meaning "fear") is an intense, irrational fear or anxiety pertaining to vomiting. This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the action of vomiting or fear of being nauseated.^[1] Emetophobia is clinically considered an “elusive predicament” because limited research has been done pertaining to it.^[2] It is considered to be one of the most common phobias in the world.^[3]

(Wikipedia)

i've always considered myself to be an emetophopic, and with the upcoming move to a foreign country, i'm back to google searching: how to cure/ treat emetophopia. it feels strange to think that i have more anxiety about someone vomitting on the street then guns and violence. i've learned over the past few days that facing your fear is the best thing phobics can do, and that's what i'm doing. plane & boat rides, eating street food, working with children and my largest fear...long bus rides around winding mountain roads. i can do this. i will do this. and it's this blog where you can read about how i concurred the bus ride where someone vomitted and lived to tell the tale. stay tuned, we leave in 11 days.

Comments

[Mandy]

I'm so happy for you! Can't wait to keep checking to see what you're up to. :o) Congrats!!!

[Stacey]

You did live to tell about a man vomiting on a bus you were traveling on!!! Honestly, I have never met anyone who has attracted the visual expulsion of vomit like you have! I hope you continue to attract healthy people into your vacinity and I hope that you achieve your goal of no longer being classed into the worlds most common phobia, emetephobia. We all know you are not a "common" kind of gal, so that should be enough...don't be common! lol