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Hey everybody.

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Today I'm going to talk 
with you about Emetophobia,

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So stay tuned.

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So like I said,

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Today I want to talk with 
you about Emetophobia,

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What is it?

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And if we have it, what do
we even do about it?

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So Emetophobia, for those of 
you who are not aware,

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Is the fear of becoming sick,
i.e. vomiting.

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People become so fearful of vomiting that 
they may not even eat outside their home.

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And the fear of vomiting isn't just,

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It was interesting,

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Because I don't know that
much about Emetophobia.

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It falls in the DSM under
'specific phobia',

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And then in the 'other' category.

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So it's not something that 
I learnt a lot in school.

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It's not something that I have
dealt with in my practice.

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And so I asked those of you who 
told me to do this video,

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I asked you for some resources.

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So thanks for getting those to me.

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It was really great to learn about it.

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And the way that Emetophobia works,

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It's not just that we fear vomiting,

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It's what will happen because of that.

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Like the embarrassment, 
the shame,

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Or whatever we think is going to happen
because of us becoming sick.

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And so people who struggle with this,

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May not leave the house.

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It can get so bad that people 
don't leave the house,

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Because they don't want to
become sick somewhere

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Where they can't get
to the toilet in time.

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And it's really that severe for them.

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And a lot of people will put off getting 
pregnant for fear of morning sickness.

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It's that intense of a fear for them,

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That they will not have children.

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They won't eat out.

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If they feel any kind of gassiness 
or any GI anything,

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They won't leave the house.

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And so it can be really really difficult and
really impair their level of functioning.

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It is hypothesised that people 
develop this type of phobia,

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Due to a traumatic event involving 
someone getting sick.

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I know you're thinking,

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'How in the world would that happen?'

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But imagine, as a child potentially,

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Some of the people talked in the forums,

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And there was a lot of information,

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About people maybe being 
forced to eat a lot of candy,

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Because their mom caught 
them in the cupboard.

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And they got spanked and abused and they
threw up because they ate all this candy.

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Or they became really sick and nauseous
after being sexually abused,

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And they threw up all over the place.

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That happens a lot with children.

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And that can be why someone would 
develop this type of phobia.

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And so because of that,

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Now going into the treatment options,

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A lot of the treatment is very similar
to that of people with PTSD.

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I'm going to check my notes to
make sure I don't forget anything.

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But one that they recommend a lot is EMDR.

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And for many of you who maybe
don't know what EMDR is,

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It is a reprocessing type of therapy,

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Where it helps our brain heal from the
trauma that it had in the past.

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And so they use either buzzers in our 
hands where it goes from left to right,

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Or we follow a light, 
we follow a finger.

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And it helps our brain kind of 
heal from the past trauma.

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The other that they offer 
and recommend is CBT.

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And obviously this has
the best track record,

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Because it's something that's 
been studied the most.

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And it's been around the longest.

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And I will put a link to my CBT video 
here if you want to watch it,

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If you want to know more about CBT.

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But it causes us to challenge
our own fears.

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And changing the falsely held beliefs that
we have about vomiting and becoming sick.

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That maybe something bad
might happen to us.

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Or something is going to happen.

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Or if we have any gassiness and 
anything going on in our GI tract,

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It's bad and we can't leave the house.

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CBT helps you challenge those beliefs.

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Step outside the box.

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Try slowly desensitising yourself so that 
you are able to better participate in life.

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And not feel so trapped.

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And so I hope this helps you better
understand what Emetophobia is.

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Why it might be there for you.

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What you can do to help overcome it.

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Because just like everything
that I talk about,

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The sooner we get help,

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The sooner we reach out,

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The better.

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There are a lot of treatment
options available.

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A lot of people out there to help.

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So please reach out and 
start talking about it.

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And if you yourself have information 
and experience with this,

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Let us know below.

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So like I said, today I'm going to 
talk about Emetophobia.

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And I actually don't even know if that's 
exactly how you're supposed to pronounce it.

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But that's how it is in my head.

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How it looks on paper. So.