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Hello, dear listener and welcome back to owning at the anxiety podcast with me, your host,

Caroline Forin. This week I had, well, last week I had intended to record, I think it was

four special guest episodes, which I was super excited about. But but alas the reality of parenting strikes again

and my son was struck down with another vomiting bug and it was not just a 24-hour thing it went on for

quite a while and me being the parent that has to take the hit when something like this happens, I just sort of

dropped everything, cancelled everything with the plan to reschedule everything so that I could be with

him and I was just by his side the whole time. So I really wanted to come back this week with

the brilliant guest episode. It's going to be another week, another week's weight. But for now, I thought it might be time, given the theme of my last week

and my anxiety around it, to talk about a metaphobia. I think I'm pronouncing it right,

a metapobia. Now, people have messaged me on Instagram

when I've talked about it or I've mentioned it on podcast before, the fear of vomiting. But when I look

it up and I read into it, I don't know that I would fit the characteristics or tick enough of the boxes

for it to qualify as a metapobia.

So let's just first look at what the definitions of a metaphobia cover.

So a metaphobia is described as an extreme fear of vomiting, of seeing vomit, of watching other

people vomit or even just feeling

sick. And it can affect people in lots of different ways. It is usually caused or at the root of it

there might be a bad memory around being ill. And it's marked by behavioural changes to avoid

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