When I have a panic attack in the night, I watch your panic attack video, I make a mint tea (mint tea is a natural remedy for upset stomach) and I open the window and breath. Your videos have seriously been the biggest help for the past year and I'd like you to know that I'm so grateful for your help. It really does help! Much love from the Czech Republic❤️
Ahoj, vím, že tenhle komentář je dva roky starý a možná to zní divně, ale jsem ráda, že jsem tady narazila na někoho, kdo není ze zahraničí. Dělám to úplně stejně jako ty a postupně a pomalu se léčím :). Doufám, že u tebe je za ty dva roky všechno o dost lepší, přeju ti hodně sil do nových dní a případných bojů se strachy :)
To whomever asked about anxiety pains: YES they are absolutely a real thing, and are very common! Not only can anxiety manifest in physical symptoms, but being on such high alert causes unusual tension in your muscles and joints, and can cause you to wrench your muscles, ribs, shoulders, neck, and any of your joints just by moving how you normally would.
I remember when I first found your channel I came for the Hamilton content but then I got super excited when I found out you had emet. I was like “omg there’s someone out there like me 😭”
My emetophobia is a bit better now, but still not great. I do go to therapy which does help. When I was in elementary school, before I knew what emetophobia even was, someone “got sick” in my classroom, and I cried until I went home. Throughout elementary school I was always crying and going to the nurses. My mind is always spiraling. For example at the Arianna concert I would have heard “she doesn’t wanna be here” and be thinking of every “what if”. Even watching new shows and movies, I’m always thinking about what ifs. Hope someone reads this and understands that they aren’t alone.
I have a similar experience I was pleasantly surprised with how well I dealt with it! My friend and I went to a concert and she felt unwell because of anxiety (we are such an awkward match its almost funny bc I have emet and she feels ill when shes anxious lol rip us) anyway normally I would have yeeted away but I stayed and we had a good time at the end. It was scary but I am happy I got through it.
I discovered your videos through your emetophobia talk and while I haven't really begun to work on my phobia, I have made small steps on my own too! 1. I've been talking myself down when I feel sick from my anxiety to make sure I don't jump straight into thinking I'm getting sick and 2. I laughed at someone gagging during a joke! Twice! Woohoo!
I literally found your channel during a pretty bad insomnia night and it’s sooo relieving to know there’s someone out there making people aware of this terrible phobia. I’ve watched greys anatomy (ironically) 5 times to help me calm down and play the sims. I don’t go to big events, get on buses, eat before something important and I miss a lot of college classes.... it’s so hard and frustrating! Cheers from Colombia!
My emetophobia has made me afraid to have kids. Like it is the one reason I’ve convinced myself I don’t want kids. I know exposure therapy can help, and I know everyone tells me “oh you’ll get used to it. They’re your kids and you have no choice” but what if I can’t? What if I shut down and run and can’t do it? I always hope I’ll find someone who has the phobia and has kids, but it really bothers me. :(
@@CT-eu5ef deep breaths. You can get past this. One thing my mom always asked me that helped me was “what is the worst thing that could happen? You get sick yourself? You pass out? No matter how bad it is, you’ll be ok” do you have anyone who might be able to help you clean up or anything?
Thank you for your videos. My daughter suffers from this and these have helped me understand the issue a little better so I can try to help her work through it.
oh my god, thank you so so SO MUCH for putting my comment in your video. you have no idea how happy i am, i’m crying bro i-😢😢💖💕 i am going to take your advice, thank you
I went to a concert in december and some guy behind us was very drunk and was in a terrible mood to the point where he was crying. When the concert started we decided to move behind them because I was uncomfortable with him being that drunk behind me and he ended up leaving with a friend and only the friend came back. I went to get merch between a song and there was a pile of v* on the stairs. I surprisingly didn’t have a panic attack. My heart definitely dropped but I was okay!
hearing you talk about your own emetophobia makes me so happy and makes me feel like i'm so much less alone!! thank you so much just for being yourself and thank you for avoiding trigger words unlike some other people i've seen address emetophobia
loved this video! sorry that experience had to happen but so proud of you and how you handled the situation! ps. i'm not sure if you watch the show but i know loads of people do but in the new season of stranger things there is an audio and somewhat visual trigger in episode 7 at around 25 minutes that can be added to your website :)
I had a similar episode during Muse's concert in rome In July. A friend of my boyfriend T.U. next to us and I started shaking and hyperventilating. Luckily we menaged to move a little bit far from that spot,but I was constantly afraid that she could do it again, she also apologized to me and I felt so so wrong!I told her that I have this damn phobia and there was nothing she had to apologize for! I didn't enjoy the concert 100%, because of the constant thought and I admit it, I still think about this episode.. I just hope it will get better.
Please please please, make another guiding through an anxiety attack, the one you made has helped me more then you know and I don’t know how to thank you
First of all thank you for your videos... I don’t feel so alone watching you. I realy don’t know who to talk and what to do so I decided to write here... Guys like most of you I’ve had emetophobia since I don’t remember. And like I wasn’t getting sick for 7 years until this year... 4 months ago I caught a cold and then it happend 2 times. So somerhing changed in some way. Was I scared more or less?? I don’t know... Then everything was okay for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks I started feeling bad like my stomach and stuff so I went to the doctor and she said I have gastritis. So I couldn’t eat anything for a while and I lost 7 kilos in 2 months. My mom started to panic, I started to panic. Right now 4 months passed and my gastritis is killing me and there is nothing I can do to feel better like my mom keeps saying İf you make yourself “that word” you’ll feel better but I am sooo sooo scared for it and eveey night It wakes me up from my sleep... now that it happend begore I feel like It can happen everday everytime and everywhere and that gices me so much anxiety please help me guys....
I havent seen someone be sick around me since ive developed emetophobia. I'm worried that my reflex will be to be sick...just from immediately going into panic at digust... what do i do??
As an emetaphobe with sisters who get sick CONSTANTLY, I can tell you besides the severe panic, it is not an instant "now I'm going to be sick too" thing. That is just MY experience though.
The best thing I ever did was get drunk and V from that. Im not encouraging drinking, however, for me personally it helped. I was able to not focus on the build up so much, that when it happened, it wasnt as scary as I thought it was going to be, and was over quickly. And after I did V, I was still merry and so proud of myself for having done it. The only fear i now have is the build up to it while sober (which i still haven’t had). But when i get to the point of actually V-ing, I don’t feel so panicked about it.
The opening scene to “in the tall grass” has a girl vomiting. As an emetophob it was hard not to just stop the movie. But that can go on your site it’s at 2:10
Hello! I have a few questions for my Emetophobia, but I should give my backstory for this phobia. My phobia first started when I was in kindergarten, when one classmate got sick behind me in class. I had a huge panic attack that lasted almost an hour. Then the following year, a different classmate got sick in front of me, but I panicked on the inside, and stayed in my chair. In second grade, yet another classmate was sick in front of me, but I didn’t really notice since I was not paying attention to my surroundings. In 3rd grade, I was the unfortunate one who managed to get sick in front of half my school, which scarred my memory. In fourth and fifth grades, my friend got sick, but I was absent for those days. In sixth grade, I was sick again, but at home instead of school. In 7th grade, one of my closest friends got sick in front of me, the day of his concert, so he had to miss it. There was blood in it as well, so that also started my hemophobia. In 8th grade (last year) one of my classmates, who happens to be one of my friends, got sick at least 3 times a month, and I was there to see several episodes of it... this is my first year in high school, and if you didn’t notice, each time I was sick was 3 years apart, which means this is the third year again, which means I am going to get sick this year. I don’t want to get sick on stage, especially since it would destroy my instrument... what do I do if that happens? Also, I feel nauseous daily, and usually feel the gaggy feeling in the back of my throat, are these signs of this happening soon? What are some telltale signs that come hours before it actually happens? Any answers will be appreciated!
Forest, the nausea and gagging feeling that you feel each day is just anxiety not a sign that you’ll get sick. You can go years and years without getting sick it’s your body’s LAST resort. If you wanna be cautious about not getting sick for your school year always wash your hands with hot water and soap NOT HAND SANITIZER, hand sanitizer only gets rid of cold germs not flu. Have some tums or gravol on you, peppermint oil to put on your tummy if it’s upset, take oil of oregano (can’t stress this one enough) and drink mint tea helps!
Time doesn’t matter. Just because it was 3 years apart the last times you got sick, that doesn’t mean that it will happen this year. The daily nausea is probably just caused by anxiety so no, it is not a sign of it about to happen.
Tori Ginter I would not recommend washing your hands daily and try to avoid getting sick since it will make the phobia even worse. But of course, if you don’t care about the phobia getting worse then you can do it if you really wanna try to avoid it🤷🏼♀️
Thank you! I’ll try those tips when I can! My anxiety is pretty severe, especially since I have so much going on wit school now, and as a Freshman in high school, I am taking a college level class, which was possibly a huge mistake...
i thought i had panic attacks everyday for 7 years. oh boy was i wrong. i had my first panic attack on january 13 last week. it was also my brothers birthday. i ended up in the er too. i’m so terrified os TU that i ended up in the ER if your reading this your into going to throw up in the middle of the night. as a matter of face your not going to throw up at all. I PROMISE... i’ve been in therapy fir a song as i can remebr and its not fun.
i developed emetophobia after two different traumatic events that happened at my work involving someone v* . I work in a gas station so there is one singular room and I was stuck behind the counter ringing people so I wasn't able to escape, the second time I had a panic attack and had to leave work early. Ever since then I've had a somewhat fear and anxiety around going to work because I am so terrified these things will happen or I will get ill at work. I have random bouts of n* that I am not sure are medical, anxiety or a combination and its so stressful. I wear plastic gloves at work because I feel a bit safer knowing there is a barrier between me and the other things I am handling. I am just so tired of living like this I wish I could just stop.
Hello. I have emetophobia because a few months ago, I threw up. It scared me so much, that every night I can't get to sleep because of my anxiety. I know I won't throw up, but it's just the feeling and anxiety. My parents say it's nothing, but nobody understands. Any tips on going to sleep with ease with emetophobia? Thanks.
To the person that asked if she/he was the only one that got anxiety attacks at night. I used to ALWAYS get my anxiety EVERY single evening/night. But I’ve gotten better and I have anxiety maybe once a month or once a week (it goes up and down).
When I have a panic attack in the night, I watch your panic attack video, I make a mint tea (mint tea is a natural remedy for upset stomach) and I open the window and breath. Your videos have seriously been the biggest help for the past year and I'd like you to know that I'm so grateful for your help. It really does help! Much love from the Czech Republic❤️
Ahoj, vím, že tenhle komentář je dva roky starý a možná to zní divně, ale jsem ráda, že jsem tady narazila na někoho, kdo není ze zahraničí. Dělám to úplně stejně jako ty a postupně a pomalu se léčím :). Doufám, že u tebe je za ty dva roky všechno o dost lepší, přeju ti hodně sil do nových dní a případných bojů se strachy :)
I always have peppermints around for that reason
To whomever asked about anxiety pains: YES they are absolutely a real thing, and are very common! Not only can anxiety manifest in physical symptoms, but being on such high alert causes unusual tension in your muscles and joints, and can cause you to wrench your muscles, ribs, shoulders, neck, and any of your joints just by moving how you normally would.
They're so real! And they suck.
last time i was this early Alexander Hamilton was still alive
Nice😆
I love your videos! These types of videos really help me through my emetophobia. Thank you! :)
I remember when I first found your channel I came for the Hamilton content but then I got super excited when I found out you had emet. I was like “omg there’s someone out there like me 😭”
Me too
you just got me through a panic attack for the millionth time. we do not deserve you 🥺🥺🥺🥺💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕💕
i love how it feels like a genuine conversation with a friend :) helps a lot💗
My emetophobia is a bit better now, but still not great. I do go to therapy which does help. When I was in elementary school, before I knew what emetophobia even was, someone “got sick” in my classroom, and I cried until I went home. Throughout elementary school I was always crying and going to the nurses. My mind is always spiraling. For example at the Arianna concert I would have heard “she doesn’t wanna be here” and be thinking of every “what if”. Even watching new shows and movies, I’m always thinking about what ifs. Hope someone reads this and understands that they aren’t alone.
I have a similar experience I was pleasantly surprised with how well I dealt with it! My friend and I went to a concert and she felt unwell because of anxiety (we are such an awkward match its almost funny bc I have emet and she feels ill when shes anxious lol rip us) anyway normally I would have yeeted away but I stayed and we had a good time at the end. It was scary but I am happy I got through it.
I discovered your videos through your emetophobia talk and while I haven't really begun to work on my phobia, I have made small steps on my own too! 1. I've been talking myself down when I feel sick from my anxiety to make sure I don't jump straight into thinking I'm getting sick and 2. I laughed at someone gagging during a joke! Twice! Woohoo!
I literally found your channel during a pretty bad insomnia night and it’s sooo relieving to know there’s someone out there making people aware of this terrible phobia. I’ve watched greys anatomy (ironically) 5 times to help me calm down and play the sims. I don’t go to big events, get on buses, eat before something important and I miss a lot of college classes.... it’s so hard and frustrating! Cheers from Colombia!
Dang I’m so proud of you. You have come so far.
Same to you! You are doing some pretty amazing stuff.
My emetophobia has made me afraid to have kids. Like it is the one reason I’ve convinced myself I don’t want kids. I know exposure therapy can help, and I know everyone tells me “oh you’ll get used to it. They’re your kids and you have no choice” but what if I can’t? What if I shut down and run and can’t do it? I always hope I’ll find someone who has the phobia and has kids, but it really bothers me. :(
I have terrible emetophobia. I have 3 kids. One of them threw up. I am terrified
@@CT-eu5ef deep breaths. You can get past this. One thing my mom always asked me that helped me was “what is the worst thing that could happen? You get sick yourself? You pass out? No matter how bad it is, you’ll be ok” do you have anyone who might be able to help you clean up or anything?
@@CT-eu5ef try to remember it’s nothing but food and stomach acid. It can’t hurt you. 💜
Thank you so much for your kind words. It means a lot to me
Thank you for your videos. My daughter suffers from this and these have helped me understand the issue a little better so I can try to help her work through it.
It's really awesome that you are taking steps to help her! Thank you for doing that.
oh my god, thank you so so SO MUCH for putting my comment in your video. you have no idea how happy i am, i’m crying bro i-😢😢💖💕 i am going to take your advice, thank you
I went to a concert in december and some guy behind us was very drunk and was in a terrible mood to the point where he was crying. When the concert started we decided to move behind them because I was uncomfortable with him being that drunk behind me and he ended up leaving with a friend and only the friend came back. I went to get merch between a song and there was a pile of v* on the stairs. I surprisingly didn’t have a panic attack. My heart definitely dropped but I was okay!
I'll be sure to screen some movies for your website :)
I'm so glad you're doing better now, I'm proud of you 💕
I’m so glad there’s someone online with a big platform who is talking about this! It’s such an under researched and not well known phobia
hearing you talk about your own emetophobia makes me so happy and makes me feel like i'm so much less alone!! thank you so much just for being yourself and thank you for avoiding trigger words unlike some other people i've seen address emetophobia
I love these videos, Jonah!! So proud of you!!! ((Btw i'm from Pittsburgh!!)) 💜
İve had emetaphobia for 3 years and it has gotten much better
loved this video! sorry that experience had to happen but so proud of you and how you handled the situation!
ps. i'm not sure if you watch the show but i know loads of people do but in the new season of stranger things there is an audio and somewhat visual trigger in episode 7 at around 25 minutes that can be added to your website :)
I loooove your channel!! It’s sooo amazing!!
About exposure therapy, it works super well! They show you videos and you make fake (trigger) and they would never actually make you get sick
That sounds so scary though 😭
I had a similar episode during Muse's concert in rome In July. A friend of my boyfriend T.U. next to us and I started shaking and hyperventilating. Luckily we menaged to move a little bit far from that spot,but I was constantly afraid that she could do it again, she also apologized to me and I felt so so wrong!I told her that I have this damn phobia and there was nothing she had to apologize for! I didn't enjoy the concert 100%, because of the constant thought and I admit it, I still think about this episode.. I just hope it will get better.
thank you.
also, I'm so proud of you!
Could you maybe adress your thoughts on Ben Platt's new album?
Please please please, make another guiding through an anxiety attack, the one you made has helped me more then you know and I don’t know how to thank you
First of all thank you for your videos... I don’t feel so alone watching you. I realy don’t know who to talk and what to do so I decided to write here...
Guys like most of you I’ve had emetophobia since I don’t remember. And like I wasn’t getting sick for 7 years until this year... 4 months ago I caught a cold and then it happend 2 times. So somerhing changed in some way. Was I scared more or less?? I don’t know... Then everything was okay for 2 weeks. After 2 weeks I started feeling bad like my stomach and stuff so I went to the doctor and she said I have gastritis. So I couldn’t eat anything for a while and I lost 7 kilos in 2 months. My mom started to panic, I started to panic. Right now 4 months passed and my gastritis is killing me and there is nothing I can do to feel better like my mom keeps saying İf you make yourself “that word” you’ll feel better but I am sooo sooo scared for it and eveey night It wakes me up from my sleep... now that it happend begore I feel like It can happen everday everytime and everywhere and that gices me so much anxiety please help me guys....
My fear of throwing up kills my will to live
I havent seen someone be sick around me since ive developed emetophobia. I'm worried that my reflex will be to be sick...just from immediately going into panic at digust... what do i do??
As an emetaphobe with sisters who get sick CONSTANTLY, I can tell you besides the severe panic, it is not an instant "now I'm going to be sick too" thing. That is just MY experience though.
Can you please continue to make more videos on emet? I've been really and lately and your videos really help
The best thing I ever did was get drunk and V from that. Im not encouraging drinking, however, for me personally it helped. I was able to not focus on the build up so much, that when it happened, it wasnt as scary as I thought it was going to be, and was over quickly. And after I did V, I was still merry and so proud of myself for having done it. The only fear i now have is the build up to it while sober (which i still haven’t had). But when i get to the point of actually V-ing, I don’t feel so panicked about it.
You are helping me a lot but I still jump when some one coughs
so proud!!!!
Do you think a service dog would help with severe emetnaphobia?
I have been told by various therapists that a service dog would be beneficial :)
I'm sorry but you're adorable 😂❤
Edit: I have loads of panic attacks and anxiety attacks too :)
Oh my god I thought I was the only one!! 😭💗😭
Thank you so much for making this video! You help me feel not alone :)
The opening scene to “in the tall grass” has a girl vomiting. As an emetophob it was hard not to just stop the movie. But that can go on your site it’s at 2:10
Hello! I have a few questions for my Emetophobia, but I should give my backstory for this phobia. My phobia first started when I was in kindergarten, when one classmate got sick behind me in class. I had a huge panic attack that lasted almost an hour. Then the following year, a different classmate got sick in front of me, but I panicked on the inside, and stayed in my chair. In second grade, yet another classmate was sick in front of me, but I didn’t really notice since I was not paying attention to my surroundings. In 3rd grade, I was the unfortunate one who managed to get sick in front of half my school, which scarred my memory. In fourth and fifth grades, my friend got sick, but I was absent for those days. In sixth grade, I was sick again, but at home instead of school. In 7th grade, one of my closest friends got sick in front of me, the day of his concert, so he had to miss it. There was blood in it as well, so that also started my hemophobia. In 8th grade (last year) one of my classmates, who happens to be one of my friends, got sick at least 3 times a month, and I was there to see several episodes of it... this is my first year in high school, and if you didn’t notice, each time I was sick was 3 years apart, which means this is the third year again, which means I am going to get sick this year. I don’t want to get sick on stage, especially since it would destroy my instrument... what do I do if that happens? Also, I feel nauseous daily, and usually feel the gaggy feeling in the back of my throat, are these signs of this happening soon? What are some telltale signs that come hours before it actually happens? Any answers will be appreciated!
Forest, the nausea and gagging feeling that you feel each day is just anxiety not a sign that you’ll get sick. You can go years and years without getting sick it’s your body’s LAST resort. If you wanna be cautious about not getting sick for your school year always wash your hands with hot water and soap NOT HAND SANITIZER, hand sanitizer only gets rid of cold germs not flu. Have some tums or gravol on you, peppermint oil to put on your tummy if it’s upset, take oil of oregano (can’t stress this one enough) and drink mint tea helps!
Time doesn’t matter. Just because it was 3 years apart the last times you got sick, that doesn’t mean that it will happen this year.
The daily nausea is probably just caused by anxiety so no, it is not a sign of it about to happen.
Tori Ginter I would not recommend washing your hands daily and try to avoid getting sick since it will make the phobia even worse.
But of course, if you don’t care about the phobia getting worse then you can do it if you really wanna try to avoid it🤷🏼♀️
Thank you! I’ll try those tips when I can! My anxiety is pretty severe, especially since I have so much going on wit school now, and as a Freshman in high school, I am taking a college level class, which was possibly a huge mistake...
i thought i had panic attacks everyday for 7 years. oh boy was i wrong. i had my first panic attack on january 13 last week. it was also my brothers birthday. i ended up in the er too. i’m so terrified os TU that i ended up in the ER if your reading this your into going to throw up in the middle of the night. as a matter of face your not going to throw up at all. I PROMISE... i’ve been in therapy fir a song as i can remebr and its not fun.
Thank you!
i developed emetophobia after two different traumatic events that happened at my work involving someone v* . I work in a gas station so there is one singular room and I was stuck behind the counter ringing people so I wasn't able to escape, the second time I had a panic attack and had to leave work early. Ever since then I've had a somewhat fear and anxiety around going to work because I am so terrified these things will happen or I will get ill at work. I have random bouts of n* that I am not sure are medical, anxiety or a combination and its so stressful. I wear plastic gloves at work because I feel a bit safer knowing there is a barrier between me and the other things I am handling. I am just so tired of living like this I wish I could just stop.
Hello. I have emetophobia because a few months ago, I threw up. It scared me so much, that every night I can't get to sleep because of my anxiety. I know I won't throw up, but it's just the feeling and anxiety. My parents say it's nothing, but nobody understands. Any tips on going to sleep with ease with emetophobia? Thanks.
I feel like you’re the only one doing this video who isn’t British. Made me think i was the only American with emetophobia lol
Wait.... I’m from Pittsburgh. It’s our region lol. Just kidding.
To the person that asked if she/he was the only one that got anxiety attacks at night. I used to ALWAYS get my anxiety EVERY single evening/night. But I’ve gotten better and I have anxiety maybe once a month or once a week (it goes up and down).
I love you so much and I am SO PROUD of you
early as heck 💗☁️
Hi
If you've been suffering for this long why haven't you gone for a therapy or anxiety medication yet? Or if you have has it not worked on you?
Both therapy and medication have helped me personally, immensely. Particularly therapy. I am very thankful for my therapist!
Hi