Following a health scare I've had to cut down on stressful activities I love stressful activities It's what makes you feel alive! Also been told to stop drinking coffee - I don't anyway - stupid docs lol.

Hi Daniel,

Just one question: Isn't a health scare a stressful activity? :O

I'll mention that to the consultant next time I see him :laugh:

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CBT is tiring me out completely. :evil: It's like I get so tired and confused after the sessions that I can't think straight, let alone type. I hope it'll get better soon.

Long post!

Cow cow cow.

My psychologist. Well, not “mine”. THE psychologist.

I started seeing her about two months ago; this was my second appointment.

Last time I told her about emetophobia and took along some info from <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://www.emetophobia.org">http://www.emetophobia.org</a><!-- m --> that my mum encouraged me to print out.

So this time she says, “Last time we talked about some of your checking behaviours...” (Blank stares from both of us for about two minutes straight; she has this thing where she makes a comment and expects me to say something else, when really she’s stating the obvious or jogging my memory.)
Me [eventually]: In terms of....? Checking dates on food and things like that?
Her [after about an hour!]: Yes. And you brought something in for me.
Me: Yes.
Her [reading through the emetophobia thing again]: Did you write this yourself?
Me [confused]: No.... I know there are some spelling mistakes in there, but it’s from a website.
Her [reading more, arrogant]: I don’t think “emetophobia” is even a word. Do you? Do you think it’s a word?
Me [growing instantly...completely...f*cking...furious and hurt]: I...don’t know, there’s certainly a lot of information –
Her: On this website.
Me: And on the Internet in general. And there are lots of people –
Her: Hmm.
Me: And I’m on several forums for people with emetophobia, so I don’t think –
Her: What kinds of forums?
Me: For people with emetophobia (!!), and some for just anxiety problems in general.
Her: Hmm.
[I talked about oFear and the IES forum, among others, and she maintained her condescending and snobby tone. Then she gave me my “homework”, which was to do with self-esteem issues.]
Her: So it’s okay for you to sit there and say you’ve done some research and you don’t think you have OCD and you “know” about anxiety and this problem you think you have, but now I want you to do this. Are you going to bother to do your homework?

Cow.

She also asked me at one point whether one of my hobbies was sitting at the computer looking up illnesses (mental/physical) I think I might have, implying that I log on to dodgy websites that are scams or hoaxes. Probably thinks I have an attitude problem and don’t want to be diagnosed with OCD or anorexia, so I made up emet to get attention. I think her problem is also that she’s so arrogant, she thinks that just because she hasn’t heard of something, means it must not exist.

The rest of the appointment just kept going downhill because I was so angry that whenever she asked me a question I couldn’t focus to answer properly, and then when she told me to think about it, I just replayed the phrase “I don’t think emetophobia is even a word” and got more angry and hurt to the point of tears. Then she thought I was upset over the questions she was asking.

I rather stupidly told her that I didn’t mind making another appointment, so I did, but there’s no way in hell I’m going back. I give up. Maybe there is no such f*cking thing. And if there is, I’m certainly not going to get any treatment for it in this country.

I understand that she may not have heard of it and that the page I printed may have looked a bit...fake...the way I formatted the text and with the few small spelling and punctuation mistakes. But....COW!

I don't usually read - let alone reply to - the rant threads.. as I consider them a place to simply offload... but I thought you might like some more info in regards your Emetophobia to perhaps take with you.....

Mark van Overveld, Peter J. de Jong, Madelon L. Peters, Wiljo J.P.J. van Hout and Theo K. Bouman;
An internet-based study on the relation between disgust sensitivity and emetophobia
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 22, Issue 3, April 2008, Pages 524-531

Paulette V. Hunter and Martin M. Antony; Cognitive-Behavioral Treatment of Emetophobia: The Role of Interoceptive Exposure; Cognitive and Behavioral Practice, In Press, Corrected Proof, Available online 30 November 2008,

Mark J. Boschen; Reconceptualizing emetophobia: A cognitive–behavioral formulation and research agenda
Journal of Anxiety Disorders, Volume 21, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 407-419
(Dr Broschen is psychology lecturer at Griffith University, Qld.)

The psychologist may feel offended by you taking scholarly information to her so I'd just ask her if she wanted some info first tho.

mauerbluemchen Wrote:Her [reading more, arrogant]: I don’t think “emetophobia” is even a word. Do you? Do you think it’s a word?...[snip]

Considering the word apears in the Oxford Handbook of Psychiatry I would say it is a word. However, we should also consider the possibility that the Oxford Universty Press has made the word up for the sole purpose of selling more dictionaries, in which case 'the' psychologist could be right. stongue

Doctors ssleepy

Who cares if she's offended. She sounds incredibly arrogant and superior.

My first meeting with my new psychiatrist made me furious. I've had a number of therapists over the years and she was the first that rubbed me the wrong way. I told her about myself and how I immigrated from a war-torn country when I was younger (a war-torn country that that borders her own mother country) and yet she asked me why I immigrated. But I forgave her that. Apparently she does not understand politics nor does she apparently watch the news and I don't know how long she's been in Canada, probably for decades.

What pissed me off the most was that when I explained the political situation (which I understand clearly, having done my research and majored in International Relations) she said and I quote:

"I don't understand politics, and I don't think you do either." :O :shock: angry1

I was so taken aback that I said nothing. Nobody had ever doubted my word or told me I didn't know what the hell I was talking about when I knew exactly what I was talking about. The worst part was her admitting she knew nothing of politics and then proceeding to say that I knew nothing either. How the hell would she know?

That bothered me so much that I had to rant about it here.

sonjadupor Wrote:"I don't understand politics, and I don't think you do either." :O :shock: angry1

That makes a whole lot of sense. :laugh:

Some people just like to think they're right even when they have little to no understanding in the topic at hand. stongue And, since she's the psychiatrist, she's bound to be right, eh?

sonjadupor Wrote:I told her about myself and how I immigrated from a war-torn country when I was younger (a war-torn country that that borders her own mother country) and yet she asked me why I immigrated. But I forgave her that. Apparently she does not understand politics nor does she apparently watch the news and I don't know how long she's been in Canada, probably for decades.

Maybe she's been a resident of Canada for the majority of her life and this is all she knows. Thus, her understanding in this sort of situation is limited. Sometimes, people are ignorant. Obviously she should have a basic enough understanding to assume that the whole 'war torn country' bit is the reason you immigrated to Canada though.


And you're from Vancouver? shappy Lucky. You've got the Olympics going on in your backyard.