There are no words to express how relieved I am once again to see I am not the only one. I thought my fear of puking was just my personality and some sort of thing I made up in my head. I started having issues with it when my sister was diognosed with cancer back when I was 11 and even after she passed away just to hear people get sick would make me cry. I then became very good friends with some one who has been an alcoholic since we were very young and all the puking would just make me so freaked out. I never ever knew there was a technical term for this phobia and now that I know I plan on studying this and looking into ways of getting help. I did not think there was a way to get past this being that I thought it was all in my head. This site is what gave me back my life, gave me a reason to go on, just when I really thought I was going to just say to heck with it and end it all I found this site and found out I was not alone. Now once again I have found that I am not alone again and this is just as important to me. When my kids get sick I can not care for them, I cry as soon as I know some one has come down with the flu. My better half bowls on a league and I can not go because it's winter and there are germs, I freak out to the point where I use my sleeve to touch door knobs and I keep antibacterail hand wash with me. I can only say thank you so much for showing me once again that I am not crazy and I am not alone!!!!!!