Why don emetophobics vomit very often?
The answer is not clear. Most emetophobics have great skill at fighting nausea. They will tell you that they felt very ill but lay down until the nausea passed. Some use prescription anti-nausea drugs like Tigan or Compazine. Others use tricks like ice cubes. Some claim that their years of fear have left them unable to vomit. Many try to bolster their immune systems through vitamins and herbal remedies. The most likely reason is this: Since these people became phobics because they had high thresholds for vomiting as children, they naturally should have been expected to have even higher thresholds as adults. Different people experience illness in different ways. Some people who get gastroenteritis (often erroneously called “stomach flu”) or food poisoning tend to vomit. Others similarly infected will only have diarrhea. Emetophobics nearly always fall in the latter class. (Emetophobics don’t generally fear diarrhea, except by its association with vomiting.) The average phobic vomited 3.
