Posted on 8th July 2010
I have been working with a very interesting client this week who suffered from emetophobia (fear of being sick). Now you would think that emetophobia would be a very uncommon fear or phobia, however, according to various health websites, emetophobia is actually quite common.
Emetophobia can be a very debilitating condition and can even rule your life. Some people who suffer with this fear of being sick isolate themselves from others because of the possibility of catching a virus from them, especially staying away from children which can often prevent sufferers from becoming parents.
Others have wanted to work within the health service as nurses or care assistants but couldn’t because of the high risk factor of being in close contact with physically ill patients.
Other sufferers are very choosy about what they eat and they always check their food to make sure that it is well cooked.
Emetophobia is not something that you are born with it is usually caused by a negative experience that you’ve had.
Hypnotherapy is a very effective way to deal with emetophobia as it works with the subconscious mind where our fears and phobias are created.
After only one hypnotherapy session and with listening to an mp3 self hypnosis download that I recorded my client noticed various changes in themselves and their fear of being sick was drastically reduced.
I used an ‘eye movement therapy’ in the second session, followed by another hypnotherapy session just to reinforce the treatment.
Using clinical hypnotherapy alongside mp3 self hypnosis downloads can be a very quick form of treatment when working with fears and phobias and can help people to quickly change their lifelong problems easily.
