Exposure therapy part 1...

At one point my phobia was so bad that the words vomit, barf, puke, throw up, blow chunks-can I just say that this just sounds gross to say in general regardless of emetophobia, regurgitate, to get sick, nauseated, nausea, and all the other words associated with vomiting. Reading them had me in a panic. I could not read it, hear it read, write it, nothing. It was all so scary to me. But with age, I began to do my own exposure therapy that way. Years of has gotten me to the point that I am not bothered about it in books or writing about it any longer.

So I have gotten over the early stages of the worst parts of having emetophobia. However, I am still uneasy at any image or video that involved vomit.

My next stage is to go be able to see cartoons/fake images without any worry. I still get uneasy if I see it, though I can stop a panic attack from beginning, unlike where I am with real puke yet, even TV/movie people vomit that is clearly fake. I am still determined that by the end of this year...emetophobia will be a thing of my past.

Turning over a new leaf

I am changing the tone of this blog entirely to focus one thing...my anxiety, depression, OCD and panic disorder issues and phobias. I will be focusing on my recovery as I am working very hard on the recovery.

Per the previous post, I did not juice each day, got too busy, but definitely increased my fruit and vegetable and overall healthy food intake. I have not any potato chips besides Sunchips in about a month. I have been greatly decreasing my sugar and salt intake. I have not had any french fries for almost two weeks. Also been taking more calcium and magnesium and alfalfa capsules. And of course, trying to stay more active.

I will flying for the first time in about two weeks, a huge leap for me, but I am excited and nervous all in one.

I feel my vomit phobia is getting better. I am handling movie and tv show vomiting much, much better than I ever used to handle it. There was a top phobias list and emetophobia was on it and the clip was graphic, but I actually laughed at it...I laughed, me. That's such a huge leap of progress for me and I am hopeful for the future.

Movies to Avoid-Emetophobia

~Updated 5/29/2014~


Movies with Vomit scenes for the Emetophobe (those who fear/hate vomit):

10 Things I Hate About You

12 Years A Slave

21 and Over

21 Jump Street

28 days later

50 first dates (walrus vomit)

50/50

A Child's Wish

A Clockwork Orange

A Lonely Place to Die

Ace Ventura: Pet Detective

Adventureland

Airplane!

Albino Farm

Alien

Alien 1 (robot only) & 2

Alien Armageddon

Aliens (robot only)

All I Wanna Do

American Horror Story 1 & 2

American Pie

Amityville Horror

Angela's Ashes

Animal House

Anne of Green Gables

Apollo 13

Are We There Yet?

Armageddon

Armageddon

A-Team

Atonement

Audition

Bad Taste

Bag of Bones

Battle Royale 1 & 2

Beautiful

Benjamin Button

Big Daddy

Black Swan

Blades of Glory

Blitz

Boogeyman 2

Born into Brothels

Bourne Identity

Breaking Dawn

Bridesmaids

Bring It On

Brokeback Mountain

Bruno

Bully

Burt Wonderstone

Butterfly Effect

Cabin Fever 1 & 2

Caddyshack

Candy

Car Wash

Carnage

Carrie's War

Catch Me If You Can

Cheaper by the Dozen

Chronicle

City of the Living Dead

Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs

Columbiana

Come See the Paradise

Constantine

Contracted

Crank: High Voltage

Crazy Jones

Dark Water

Date Night

Dawn-Anna

Day of the Dead 2

Daybreakers

Daywalkers

Dead Silence

Death Row

Detention

Detroit Rock City

District 9

Divine Secrets of the Ya-Ya Sisterhood

Doc Hollywood

Dog Fight

Dog Soldiers

Don’t mess with the Zohan

Don't say a word

Drop Dead Gorgeous

Due Date

Dumb and Dumber

Duplex

Dying Young

Edge of Darkness

Elizabethtown

Elysium

Epic Movie

Evil Dead

Exorcist

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas

Filth

Four Rooms

From Hell

Funny Games

Gattaca

Get Him to the Greek

Get Over It

Get Smart

Ghostship

Girl Interrupted

Girls against Boys

God of Carnage

Gossip

Gossip

Green River Killer

Green River Killer

Grind                                    

Grown Ups 2

Guest House Paradiso

Guesthouse

Halloween 2 (Rob Zombie remake)

Hansel and Gretel Witch Hunters

Harry Potter and The Chamber of Secrets (2)

Harry Potter and The Half-Blood Prince (6)

Hart’s War

Hatchet

Haunting in Connecticut

Henry Fool

Here Comes the Boom

Hero Wanted

Holes

Hope Floats

Horrible Bosses

Hostel

Hot Rods

Hot Tub Time Machine

House at the End of the Street

How High 

Hush

I Love You, Man

In Her Shoes

In Time

In-Betweeners

Inception

Independence Day

Into the Wild

Isolated

It’s Kind of a Funny Story

Jackass (all of them)

Jarhead

Jennifer's Body

John Dies at the End

Joyeux Noel

Juno

Kaboom

Kick Ass 2

Kickin' It Old Skool

Killer Elite

Kindergarten Cop

Knocked Up

Lakewood Terrace

Land of the Dead

Larry the Cable Guy: Health Inspector

Last Hours in Suburbia

Leap Year

Let the Right One In

Letter to God

Like Minds

Limitless

Little Fockers

Little Manhattan

Look Who’s Talking

Looper

Machete

Man of Steel

Mean Girls

Minority Report

Mission Impossible

Monster’s Ball

Monty Python's: The Meaning of Life

Moon

Mutant Chronicles

My Sister’s Keeper

Naked Gun 33 1/3

Nanny McPhee Returns

Natural Born Killers

Nick and Norah’s Infinite Playlist

No Country for Old Man

Now Is Good

Open House

Osmosis Jones

Pacific Rim

Pan's Labyrinth

Parenthood

Pineapple Express

Pinocchio 964

Pirates of the Caribbean 2: Dead Man’s Chest

Pitch Perfect

Planet 51

Planet Terror

Poltergeist 1 & 2

Pontypool

Precious

Problem Child 2

Project X

Prometheus 

Pulp Fiction

Puncture

Quarantine

Quarantine 2-Terminal

Ramona & Beezus

Remember Me

Remember the Titans

Requiem for a Dream

Riding in Cars with Boys

Rocky (newest one)

Rules of Attraction

Rush

Safe

Salo

Saving Private Ryan

Saw 2 and 3

Seabiscuit

Serenity

She’s All That

Showgirls

Shrek the Third

Shrooms

Shutter

Sin City

Six Feet Under

Skyline

Slaughtered Vomit Dolls

Sleepaway Camp 2

Sleeping Beauty

Slumdog Millionare

Soul Surfer

Squall

Stand By Me

Starstruck

Stealing Beauty

Stepmom

Stoker

Super Bad

Super Size Me (documentary-real vomit)

Super Troopers

Sweet Home Alabama

Take Shelter

Take the Lead

Tamera 

Team America: World Police

Ten Things I hate about you

That’s My Boy

The 40 year old Virgin

The Art of Getting By

The Audition

The Backup Plan

The Birds

The Butterfly Effect

The Challenge

The Children

The Conjuring

The Crying Game

The Curious Case of Benjamin Button

The Descent 1 & 2

The Exorcist

The Fly

The Fourth Kind

The Good Girl

The Green Mile

The Grudge 2

The Hangover

The Help

The Hitcher (older version, remake is safe)

The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

The Hole

The House Next Door

The Hunger Games 2

The Imaginarium of Dr. Parnassus

The International

The Invasion

The Last King of Scotland

The Lost Tribe

The Matrix

The Nest

The New Daughter

The Officers Ward

The Original Sin

The Painted Veil

The Parole Officer

The Pest

The Piano

The Place beyond the Pines

The Pregnancy Pact

The Reader

The Rebound

The Return of the Living Dead

The Ring

The Rum Diary

The Sandlot

The Sixth Sense

The Social Network

The Transporter

The Unborn

The Wedding Singer

The Whole Nine Yards

The Wolf of Wall Street

The Woman in Black

The World's End

The Wrestler

Thelma & Louise

Third Star

Torchwood

Trainspotting

Trick or Treat

Trishna

Tropic Thunder

Uptown Girls

Urban Legend

V: The Final Battle

Van Wilder

Water for Elephants

Wedding Crashers

Wicked Things

Witchboard

Witches of Eastwick

World’s End

Zapped