Welcome to the web page for the Emetophobia FAQ and related FAQs. FAQ stands for frequently asked questions and FAQs are full of facts. This is the original Internet site about emetophobia, the fear of vomiting. This FAQ has been on the Web since December 1997. These FAQs have been written and are maintained by an emetophobe. Emetophobes usually refer to themselves as emets for short.

So there's no confusion, emetophobia is pronounced e-MET-uh-pho-bi-a and FAQ is pronounced to rhyme with "tack." Feel free to e-mail with any comments.

Frequently Asked Questions About Emetophobia

This brief question and answer essay explains what emetophobia is, how people become emetophobic, how emetophobia affects the lives of its sufferers, and what emetophobics can do to make emetophobia have a less severe impact in their daily lives. The lives of many emetophobics have been changed by understanding the contents of this FAQ. Before reading it, many thought they were the only one with an all-consuming fear of vomiting.

Click here for the Emetophobia FAQ

• The FAQ has been translated into
  • Swedish
  • Norwegian
  • Finnish

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Frequently Asked Questions About Vomiting

Vomiting is an ordinary occurrence for most people but something unknown and terrifying for emetophobics. This FAQ describes the vomiting act and its causes and offers insights into what one can do to prevent vomiting. It gives basic information that emetophobics and others can incorporate into their personal knowledge bases so that one can have a greater control over the act and be better able to recognize signs that vomiting is or is not about to occur. It contains surprising statistics about how often people vomit and who is most likely to experience this phenomenon.

Click here for the Vomiting FAQ

Celebrating the time we've gone without vomiting

This is a page where hundreds of emetophobics have posted the date they last vomited, which is an average of 17 years ago! This page is designed to validate for emetophobics that many, many people have gone most of their lives without vomiting and give them strength that they can persevere too.

Click here for the vomit streaks page

Overcoming emetophobia

These are stories of how people have been cured of their emetophobia or tried to. Some people have succeeded in eliminating emetophobia from their lives while others have learned what will not work for them and new ways of coping. Other emets can learn from their experience as they seek out their own solution to emetophobia.






• How Katy was cured
• How Mark was cured by a dream
• How Marge was cured after 43 years
• Why Molly is glad she vomited
• Shari isn't quite cured, but she's ready to be
• Read a professional journal article about how a psychologist cured a woman of her emetophobia by getting her to induce vomiting
• How inducing vomiting failed to cure Jacqueline
• How Kelly experienced ipecac
• How Mara was cured by the "gallon of milk challenge"
• A mother's story of how her little girl was cured by EFT

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Learn about or join an e-mail support group or web message board

• The International Emetophobia Society has thousands of members and has a user-friendly message board where emets can communicate
• The Emetophobics board is a good place for emets to gather, especially during the frequent outages at IES
• The FOV list is for people who want to be cured of their emetophobia

  Read the transcript of chat sessions among emetophobics

  • Chat #1