My husband gets motion sickness very often. The pressure point bands you were talking about, save him all the time. They work beryy well, but make sure you read the instructions as they do take about five minutes to start working on him. We bought seveal pairs and have them on hand with us basically whenever he leaves the house. I highly recommend!!!
diaphragmatic breathing and tapping your body/head helps sooooo much. the grounding exercises work like a charm!! for me, personally, I don't think I will ever fully overcome my emetephobia because it is so intrinsically linked with trauma and ocd, but having an understanding of triggers and deciding if you're able to avoid them is (i think) just as valid as pushing yourself to work through them! sometimes you just have to prioritize your sanity hahaha. great video :D
I've suffered from this since I was a child (48 now) I get car sick or atleast used to and found salt and vinegar chips helped me just nibbling on them, I feared seeing people or hearing them vomit was so scary and came to realised vomiting was important as its the bodys way of getting rid of toxic waste.
what bothers me most is the fake scenarios in my head including v*mit... sometimes i see nightmares about it and feeling nauseous is the worst thing ever 😖 i want to cry everytime...
i had emetophobia before but i paradoxically cured myself when i started to drink alcohol in the teen years. of course, throwing up when you're drunk isn't half as bad as when you're sober, but it still. also, i worked in an intensive care unit where there were many people with heart attacks and many of them threw up so that helped me. i really think exposure therapy works for stuff like that.
as someone whos struggled with emetophobia for nearly 13 years now, I will be snatching ALL of those coping mechanisms. bc exposure therapy is NOT the business XD
