Could A Person With Fear of Vomit Manage To Raise Children?
If you haven’t heard about what emetophobia is and what it can do to a person’s life, you probably are not in the minority. Emetophobia is plainly the irrational fear of vomit or anything hinting at vomit, and it’s discussed very little in public. That’s because most sufferers feel a fair amount of shame over having this serious condition.
Usually it doesn’t just stay a simple fear of vomit – emetophobics overgeneralize and become anxious about being sick and in germs and dirtiness in general. One of the hardest things for a person with emetophobia is to see a loved one being ill. And it’s much more harder to tolerate for women who are a parent and need to take care of their sick children.
This is such a huge problem that some sufferers may even choose not to have children at all. The anxiety over getting morning sickness and throwing up, or that the child will get sick and they will be the only one that is able to take care of the child, simply overtakes their strength to face up to the fear.
There is hope, however. Having emetophobia does not have to immediately mean that the mother will have to deal with constant panic attacks. I know many women with emetophobia who have told me stories about how they have managed to deal with their children. For example, in some cases, a child throws up and the nurturing instinct in a mother takes over, without any thought at all, and cleaning the child up, only realizing after the fact what they’ve done.
Emetophobia can be managed. And it seems that the extremely strong maternal instinct that women have can overcome all sorts of adversity. That is a dash of hope for those who do suffer with emetophobia and are parents or about to become one.
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