New Member! Tips? Advice?

[kcgal.]

Hi all, I just stumbled across this site today after seeing this link</font> and a Google search for the phobia name led me here. I had no idea that my phobia not only had a name but an entire support group!

The earliest memory of my phobia is watching a friend v* in my pre-school class. I remember being terrified that I would be ill as well and was later chided for leaving my seat to visit the water fountain too often that day.

Over 25 years later, I still fight the fear and laugh it away as "one of my abnormal fears". I had no clue it wasn't as "abnormal" as I originally thought!

Do you guys avoid the things that have a remote possibility of making you n* too? Such things I avoid include getting drunk, riding roller coaster rides, taking RX meds, eating too much, etc.

What are some tips that you have found helpful in your lives? When you feel n*, is there anything you personally do that might calm you down or make you feel better?

I'll share my own to start:

Chewing gum or ice. I have no desire to google this possible Old Wives Tale, but my stepmother told me years ago that chewing on gum would help that feeling go away. I added chewing ice chips (since the hospitals do that, y'know?) and found the action of swallowing of small amounts of liquids helpful.

Talking. I will randomly start talking to whomever is unlucky enough to be next to me. It's something I do more with desperation than intent, and I'm sure I look less than sane when I'm babbling away, but I think the distraction proves helpful.

Changing my surroundings. The most dreaded place for me to be n* is in public. I have been known to skip paying important bills in time when I feel n*, if it requires me to be in public to do so (most often, my mortgage, which sometimes requires a wire transfer). If I start to feel n* in public, I will convince myself that it's something in my surroundings and go elsewhere. Again, I know it's "all in my head" but the change of scenery helps.

Mind of matter. Going along with the above scenario, I simply convince myself that my n* is all in my head and if I concentrate and practice some of the above things, it'll go away. You know what, usually it does.

What are some of the things you do to relax yourself?

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[shea:)]

Hey, yes, i do try to avoid anything that can possably make me sick. The one thing a do the most is that if im gonna go somewhere public, i try to eat something that i think it wont make me sick or it wont be that gross if i v* it. Most of da time i don't eat much b 4 going anywhere cuz im scared. Doesn't it happen to you or u guys that when ur hungry, u feel safe cuz u think u cant v* cuz ur hungry? That's what helps me. Like u, i always have gum with me cuz i think it makes me feel better when im feeling n*........ and water too. u should try smelling rubbing alcohol, ithelps me. Bout da public thing, i know how u feel. It makes our phobia worse. Well hope i helped a bit.

[violet]

Hey &amp; welcome to the site..


I do understand how you feel about with this phobia, we all have it in different stages but all the same we are still here to help each other.


I find that drinking some water better with juice in it bit of taste in it,speaking to a loved one that knows about it or just talking to someone in general to take your mind off of it.


I also do eat alot of gum, and try to only eat things that I want to eat when I feel hungry but its hard sometimes especially if i am hunry and feeling s* because i havent eaten gets a bit hard after a while.


there isnt really any anti-n* drugs that I have tried or anything on the drug side so cant help with that but relaxing and trying to keep your mind off it is better than drugs if it works.


Hope you are well


xVx

[billyboy]

Yes, hello, my name is Will Childs and i'm a pack-a-day gum addict. GUM IS THE ULTIMATE CURE FOR N*!!!

I do eat far too much gum than is good for me, but at least it helps. I also carry Maxolon or Motillium with me wherever i go cause these stop n* and v*ing completely. I rarely use them though, its only like a saftey thing that i use when i cant handel the n* anymore.

I know what you mean about the public thing. N* in public is the worst possible form of torture. I hate the 1 hour bus trip to school in the mornings and afternoons, sometimes i even stop the bus in the middle of nowhere just to get off....this is really bad as i live in the country and often it is a fair walk to anywhere inhabitied by humans... Edited by: billyboy

[violet]

Hey billy, was wondering ive used motilium a few times but it has already been in my house as a perscription do you know if you are able to get it over the counter there or in the UK?


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[billyboy]

Mine is prescription too, but i read in another post that you can get it over the counter in the UK and Aust. Its called 'Motilium 10', but it is exactly the same.

[violet]

Thankx Very much


Im going to the docs today havent slept yet feeling a bit worried about it but sure il be ok.


Hope you are well x