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I don't know. Since I had that thing in my stomach, that virus, I also feel like being emetophobic, which is causing me to be nauseated all the time. Even now I feel sick... I hate that and I'm also really scared of nausea somehow x__X

I feel with you xx

lol, i shouldn't copy and paste comments... xDD

Whoo hoo!!! German!!!! hahahha i love ya Rami~kins! :D

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Yeah xD I corrected something and copied it to paste it again and... yeah xDD

Oooh don't I know the feeling!!!! I pretty much always feel nauseas.... since im so paranoid of feeling it my brain think i AM feeling it!! I've even been reading up medical entries about it so I can understand it better...damn sneaky brains lol! Coz when I eat, sometimes I panic that it'll poison me again and come back up...so I give myself an anxiety attack...and when you have anxiety attacks your brain sends signals to your intenstines to shut down everything it is doing..... so when i'm trying to digest the food I just ate its sort of not being digested properly by the stomach and intestines.. SO greeeatttt I'm my own worst enemmmmy!!!!

And what really starts to annoy me sometimes is that my friends sometimes watch me eat when we're at restaurants or whatever and will alllways end up making the comment: "god, you eat hardly anythinggg!!! You need to eat moreee!!!" and i feel like saying "um, if I eat anymore I'll be even more paranoid that I'll throw up and then it will be even harder for my stomach to digest it, and that will make me feel nausea and THAT will make me panic MORE and the cycle will continue on and on...." -_-;;

It's natural for us to be scared of nausea though... because the problems we had made us REALLY nauseasous all the time... so we'd do anything not to go back to that horrible time. But nausea is one of the most common things the body feels so it is so eassssy to feel nauseasous and gahhhhhh!! hate hate hate!! My goal in life is to bloody well get over this fear of nausea so I can get my life back.... Hopefully we'll be able to accomplish it, Rami! <3333

Yeah, this is what it feels like to me. like... I get up in the morning, already feeling sick, but also hungry. The longer I wait until I eat, the worse it gets! And then I force myself to eat, hoping it'll become betteer (because everyone say that being hungry is the reason) and then... I'm not hungry anymore, but still felling like shit xx
I mean... I know your mind controls your stomach somehow, but what should I do? I can't just NOT be stressed out by some things. I can't help it. My somach and my mind seem to be more connected than by any other person-.- As soon as I am feeling stress or mental pain or something, my stomach acts like crazy. Actually I never vomit! I just feel like I'm about to... it's so annoying.

I also eat less because of that. Like... yesterday we had my favourite dish for dinner, and I was sooo looking forward to eat it, but then, just before I started, I started feeling nauseated again. Why is that?? I only ate little after that, I wasn't full or something, I was just nor hungry anymore, but my stomach... wooah~
It's SO annoying!

Yep yep rami, exactly like me!!!!

I was reading that is is reallllllllllllllllly common for people who suffer from anxiety to experience that constant nausea. I'm assuming you have intensified anxiety like I do because of all our stomach problems. It really is all because of our brain's perceptions. I have learnt soooo much and will try and share my findings with you if it will help you!

For example, I dunno about you but I happen to experience this a lot:
- constantly check how you are feeling or what symptoms you can find – very typical of anxiety and panic attacks sufferers
- Wake up every morning with anxious thoughts or panic and question "how do I feel?" before you have even started your day

Because of that I am always super aware of whether my stomach is feeling nauseated or not!

Like here is some information that might relate to you as well:
Very often, simply the thought of getting through the day provokes anxiety as
soon as the sufferer wakes, which sets them up for a day filled with anxious
behaviors. Because adrenaline levels are artificially raised this leads to a resetting of our
baseline anxiety level in the anxiety control center, we can experience constant general or generalized anxiety. This means that the body is functioning at a much higher level of anxiety,
causing a whole list of anxious feelings, emotions and sensations.

SO I guess in other words, because of our scares in the past, the level of anxiety in our bodies has increased. So we are much more anxious in general compared to everyone else. And because of this constant anxiety it makes our stomach feel sick. And because we feel sick we worry even more... And that makes us feel sicker!

And you see, the brain associates many things with feeling sick. For example, since the food I ate which gave me poisoning were dumplings at a chinese restaurant, really strong smelling food automatically makes me feel sick. My brain picks up on the smell and thinks "danger alert!!" and so I lose my appetite. And since a lot of the time in the past I felt the most sick at night before dinner, whenever my brain realised it was past 5pm it would automatically think "oh oh, it's getting late! I must be prepared for something bad to happen" you know? I hope I am making sense here...

Honestly, don't worry Rami, my stomach does the same thing too. I smelt strong Indian food smells at my friends house and couldn't eat dinner OR lunch the next day. Crazy. But I'm going to order a book/program online that teaches you how to reprogramme your brain to stop you from always feeling anxious and nauseasous!

Oh, and I forgot to mention this:

The times when you lose your appetite but KNOW you should be eating, you HAVE to force yourself to eat something. It's a proven fact that if you feel nauseas, an empty stomach makes it worse. Not coz you may be secretly hungry, but because a stomach can be very unsettled when there is nothing there. At least if the stomach has a bit of food in it, it can concentrate on playing around with the food rather than playing around with itself, ya know?

I can't stand it, but often I have to just force myself to eat. It's terrible because when I get shocks like that of super nausea it automatically makes me too scared to eat for days!!! It's a great way of losing weight, but my godddddd!! -_-;;

i think i have it too. When i start feeling nauseatic, automatically, I'll get panic because I'm afraid of what'd happen if I puke!!!
I cant stand vomit. My own or anyone else... T_T
The only cure so far is to get the hell out of everyone's way. If im with someone else, It only makes me more anxious and the bile just shoot from my stomach to my throat and i cant move for fear of it come out. is this like, what it is? of the phobia?

SOmetimes closing my eyes helps.
hwaiting!!

Mmhmmmmmmm damn right!! It's a reallllly common phobia but it's so awful!! I mean, some people have phobias of spiders....or drowning... or things like that, and those phobias are horrible too, but its only around spiders and water that people would feel scared! With phobia of vomiting we can't escape it coz it's part of our own bodyyy! T______T

I figured out that I'm not scared of vomiting, but scared of the FEAR the surrounds the process of vomiting... Like, when I'm gonna vomit I know there is nothing I can do and i just go with the flow. But it's the part beforehand that I am scared of - that period of intense nausea and waiting.... Coz ever since I was a young kid I was scared of vomiting....i'd even ask my mum every night if I'd vomit and couldn't go to sleep unless she told me i wouldn't.. (these are repressed memories that recently came back lol!) And then at the beginning of last year I got food poisoning whilst my friend was over at my house for a sleeepover!! ANd I hadn't vomited in 9 years!! So I had forgotten the process and it fucking traumatized me... and so thanks to that I developed post-traumatic stress anxiety disorder that then morphed into general anxiety disorder and panic disorder (not to mention that the food poisoning gave me IBS for life now -__-)

So i guess it isnt much of a surprise that i am scared of vomit lolllll. I mean, if I even HEAR the word I'll start to get shaky!!! how stupid is that!!! My psychologist had to force me to use the word "vomit" coz I was so scared of it! Mannnnn the human brain can be so cruel to us, eh!

*hugggggle* Hopefully one day we'll be strong enough to get over it. T____T

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*hugs* DOn't think so much, the more you think, the more you'll panic...I know it's easy to say and difficult to do..but you must try, fi-chan!!!!*hugs*

Oooh tellllll me about it!!!! If I didn't have so many damn thoughts running through my head at all times I wouldn't always talk my body into thinking something is wrong and im gonna puke... -_-;;

Thanksssssssssss for the support Chloe!! <333

o.o twinnie, i didn't know you had a fear of vomit.

Three panic attacks? wow. That's like me and my bugs. T_T evil evil things. I mean we're 394394 bigger than them and i fear them. So i understand about irrational fears.

*glomps* <3

Ahh yesh a major one since I was a kid. T____T

Oh lordy, I know so many people scared of bugs. Myself, I got totally freaked out by cockroaches!!! If I see any I'll be screaming and running away and hiding and calling for my dad to kill the damn things. *huggle*

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