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WHAT CAUSES EMETOPHOBIA?
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Like all fears and phobias, emetophobia most commonly develops from
a childhood fear that has never been outgrown. Perhaps a traumatic
incident was witnessed when young, a person being sick close to them
or on them, maybe they themselves being sick or perhaps they saw
someone else being sick under traumatic circumstances.
When a traumatic scene is witnessed as a young child (between the
age of 1 to 6 years old in my experience) the subconscious mind as
the body's 'protector' works out the best way to prevent the
incident repeating itself. The way this works in practice is that
the subconscious attaches negative emotions or feelings to vomiting
and in future this teaches the person to steer away from 'dangerous'
situations. Whilst the subconscious is doing all this 'protection',
the conscious mind is struggling to find out where this irrational
behaviour is coming from.
The incident that was
experienced when young was interpreted incorrectly at the time and
the subconscious is causing the person to still act like that
frightened two year old, even though she is now an adult. When
'stuff' happens to us when young, we are relatively short on
intelligence and life experience - this deficiency causes us to
interpret situations to the best of our ability with the limited
data available. Nine times out of ten, this interpretation is
incorrect but because of the conscious mind's difficulty in
accessing the subconscious, it can't work out why we react to
certain situations in an irrational way.
The actual phobia manifests itself in different ways. Some
sufferers experience it almost all the time, others just in response
to direct stimuli. Some sufferers spend a number of years
'emetophobia free' and then a particular incident triggers the
subconscious to remember the childhood event in question and then
the fear of sickness starts / restarts.
Click here to read some
case histories of people successfully treated for emetophobia
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David Samson
Dip Adv Hyp
David Samson is a
General Hypnotherapy
Standards Council
Validated Practitioner
and a member of
the General Hypnotherapy Register. He also holds a Diploma in Advanced
Hypnotherapy
Recently he has
appeared on Vanessa's Real Lives (ITV 1 television) discussing
unusual phobias. He has been on London Talk Radio when he
helped listeners with their phobias. He has also been a guest on the Charlie Jordan Show on LBC Radio
as phobia advisor, The Late Show on BBC London and most recently on
LBC with a six part series on unusual phobias. Body and Soul magazine in The Times
have published articles featuring his work on phobias. The Barnet Press
also produced a major feature on David's research into phobias and
their treatment.
He is a member of the UK Register of Advanced Hypnotherapists
and rigidly adheres to their principles and codes of ethics.
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