Why do humans and animals have to vomit?!
There is a lot of evidence for the benefit of cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) in other phobias and obsessive compulsive disorder (see various NICE guidelines) . CBT can be adapted for treating a Specific Phobia of Vomiting. Sufferers may have had CBT in the past that has not been helpful but it partly depends on who is delivering it and the approach used. There are no miracle cures – it is hard work on the part of the individual with emetophobia. Cognitive behaviour therapy (CBT) consists of a structured programme of self-help, helping people to get a good understanding of how the fear might have developed and how their solutions have now become the problem and keeps the fear going. It is based on an understanding that people with emetophobia have had one or more bad experiences of vomiting from childhood. Sometimes these experiences can be remembered, sometimes not. These memories have become associated with fear. Past experiences of vomiting (and their triggers) become fused with t
