Childhood Emetophobia
Has the fear of getting sick hijacked your child?
Your family? Are you starting to feel helpless?
Our website, emetophobia.net, has unexpectedly crashed. We are working on repairing it. If you are currently in the process of doing the exposures, I have alternative ways I can help. Please email me at david.russ.phd@gmail.com
The purpose of this website is two-fold. First to educate and help parents who have children struggling with emetophobia. Second, to direct parents to resources that could help their children overcome this phobia.
I can only imagine that many visitors to this site may have emetophobia as well so I will slightly disguise words that can be triggering. For example, if the word "humbug" was triggering I would write it as "h*mb*g" or something similar. I will do my best to provide a warning if there are things that could be triggering.
I have written a book for kids with emetophobia. Your child will need some help more than likely going through the process. Most of the book is just explaining how phobias work and what you have to do to overcome a phobia. Then the book links to our companion website that has the steps involved in the treatment. My book is digital only at this time but I am talking to a publisher about turning it into a printed workbook.
