For Emetophobia - the fear of being sick aka emetophobia, phagophobia, vomitophobia.

Emetophobia or fear of vomiting is successfully treated by Alice Pinion at Maldon Hypnotherapy Clinic, Essex with Hypnoanalysis - a unique and highly effective form of Hypnotherapy.

Emetophobia commonly effects more women than men with really quite debilitating repercussions on their lives. Those people suffering with the fear of either themselves being sick, or others around them vomiting will actively avoid all situations where they or others potentially maybe sick e.g. pubs and drinking, restaurants, eating in front of others, becoming pregnant, traveling on planes (Vomiting secondary to airsickness - Aeronausiphobia), trains, boats or cars etc.

The mere mention of sick, puke, vomit or the sight or smell of it, or someone being sick can often be enough to bring on a severe panic attack, or at least a strong phobic reaction of disgust, fear, nausea and so on.

There are often other related problems such as phagophobia (the fear of swallowing), fear of gagging, choking, drowning and social phobia, obsessive hygiene routines, toilet phobia's such as shy bladder or coprophobia (problems going for a poo) etc. Also the person can become quite obsessed by just what they will eat, where, when and with whom, so can be very very fussy eaters. Along with these problems can come a preoccupation with illness, stomach bugs, the danger of food poisoning etc. so often rich foods and certain cloying textured foods are avoided e.g. custard, cream, milk, etc. There maybe an insistence to eat alone, to prepare their food themselves or to eat only at certain times and places to reduce the risk of being sick.

Not only can not becoming pregnant become part of the obsession because of the risk of morning sickness and having to go to a hospital full of sick people but also being around children can be painful in case they're sick or pass on sickness bugs. Emetophobia commonly effects ones sex life too, for example oral sex is avoided at all costs due to the fear of choking or gagging.

Most people with emetophobia have tried many different therapies to get rid of or try and control it with no success. Many emetophobes have been led to believe that nothing can be done. However, through hypnoanalysis, emetophobia can be resolved permanently and completely.

Phobias are almost always created in childhood, regardless of the onset of symptoms, possibly even years later. Bottled up emotions are projected onto an object or situation, causing the phobia. The only way to permanently get rid of a phobia is to release the bottled up emotions causing it. As these emotions are locked down out of the conscious domain, many other talking therapies can't access them. However, using Pure Hypnoanalysis those feelings are accessed and can be released and resolved for good.

I'm often asked (generally nervously by emetophobes!) if I practice any type of over-exposure therapy where a client would be expected or encouraged to watch people be sick or think of being sick etc. I do NOT practice this form or therapy so be rest assured your sessions will not involve such activity. One reason I don't practice this form of therapy is emetophobia is not about being sick or anything to do with seeing someone being sick, it is quite simply an external expression of ones internal anxiety.

If any of this sounds interesting and you'd like to free yourself from emetophobia's limiting effects once and for all, be rest assured that Hypnoanalysis offers an effective, refreshing and altogether very different approach by actually getting to the genuine source of the problem rather than just masking symptoms.

Just imagine not carrying all that baggage around with you for the rest of your life - no matter how much you think you've gotten "used to it", or "deserve it", or "it's just the way I'm made"! Just think of how very wonderfully different life would be if you didn't have to go through it with the handbrake on all the time?

In the entirely understanding and non-judgemental atmosphere of Alice's highly professional consulting room you will work together with her using Pure Hypnoanalysis to allow those bottled up emotions which reside deep within your unconscious mind to naturally surface and be cathartically released - leaving you feeling lighter, better, free from all those symptoms.

Support, understanding and empathy are all integral when working with Alice and you'll soon see it is not like that of other talking therapies or counseling. Instead of just raking over the past and trying to intellectually come to terms with issues, Hypnosis and Free Association allow clean excision of the unconscious reasons for your depression and then those pent up emotions finally resolve and are truly released. In doing so any directly and often many indirectly related symptoms disappear for good and you can just simply get on with happily living that life you've always wanted and be the person you've always wanted to be. No brainwashing involved, no more management of stresses and insecurities just to get by - quite simply you will have the choices as the same person you were but crucially without all the unconscious baggage holding you back in life.

Sound interesting? Why not call up for an informal chat or to arrange a no pressure face to face free initial consultation at Alice's Hypnotherapy clinic in Maldon Essex where you can confidentially and thoroughly discuss your problems. Just call Alice on 07906 059022 or email alice@alicepinion.com

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Alice also successfully helps with other related problems including (but certainly not exclusively):