So I'm back....again! and I've been having a rough time a again with emetophobia. I'm have very little sleep lately due to having nightmares about being v****ed on and not sleeping from feeling nauseous myself. Anyway I have an appointment on Thursday to see a phobia specialist which I have waited over 3 months for! They sent out some questionnaires for me to fill in and a booklet for me to read through prior to the appointment discussing what they plan to do to help me overcome my phobia and I'm not keen at all about the way they want to approach it. Their plan of action is to make me face my fear. For example, if I had arachnophobia (fear of spiders) they would start by showing my pictures of cartoon spiders and build up each session to eventually holding a real life spider in my hand. So that probably mean they want to start by showing me cartoon pictures of v**** and build up to me being induced to v**** myself and I'm really not comfortable with that at all!! I think they are approaching the situation all wrong. They are treating it like any other phobia and I don't know how everyone else feels, but I feel as though emetophobia can not be treat the same as the others. Its completely different. There aren't any emetophobia specialists at all anywhere near where I live in the UK, so I have to settle for the phobia specialist.
Another problem I'm dealing with at the moment, like Nixie, my partner and I are also planning a winter vacation to Walt Disney World but in December for 12 days over the Christmas & New Years period, and it will be super crowded and I'm having second thoughts already. Unlike Nixie, we will have to travel all day by plane, two 1hour45minute flights and one 9hour flight. So I'm asking the same question, how to avoid Norovirus at its peak and in holiday crowds? My biggest fear is getting sick on vacation, coughs and sneezes I can handle, but v****ing and tummy pains is a no go!! I'm extremely hesitant about booking this trip. Christmas and Disney are my two most favorite things in the world and combining them would be a dream come true but is risking destroying them by falling ill really worth it? I really don't know what to do. Christmas time is the only time my partner can get off work for vacation and its just really the Norovirus that worries me.
Please help??