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health advisory Hospital Alternative Medicine 2007-11-16 3:13:31

I reckon that you might just get used to it - and I really really hope you do so that you can enjoy your job. Do let us know how you get on!

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Wow, hope you can overcome this so you can work in a hospital.

I've also got a phobia of vomiting, and I think it's very common, because it serves an evolutionary purpose. Back in our hunter gatherer days, if someone else in the tribe is sick, this is a warning to the others that the meat from the last hunt is bad and the tribe may be in danger from poisoning. So everyone else develops sympathetic nausea, just in case. The fear has a very real purpose in that context. However, in a modern context, especailly working in a hospital, this would not be the case. So hypnosis could probalby help you reframe this fear so that you could deal with it. Desenstitization also helps with some phobias, although it is not exactly hypnosis. The practical suggestions that Emma has given would also probably help.

Sometimes it helps, when treating phobias, to address the root meaning of the phobia. I often see people vomit in dreams, and once I was lucid enough in a dream to ask someone, what does this mean, to see vomiting in a dream? I asked this because I'd looked it up in various dream books and the usual explanations didn't seem to fit. The other person in the dream explained, it means you are afraid that you have done something wrong, and people will suffer for it or you will be caught. This made sense, to my lucid dream consciousness, and it still makes sense now that I am awake. In the context of our hunter gatherer days, doing something wrong could mean letting the meat go bad, or gathering poisonous plants, and the people would certainly suffer. In a modern context, careless cooking habits could lead to food poisoning affecting the family, and would also be doing something wrong and getting caught and the people suffering for it. In the context of your work in the hospital, if this has the same meaning for you, you could work on that angle of the fear, and assure your subconscious that you are innocent and safe.