Emetophobia Recovery Summary

Picture this; It’s a normal day in social studies for her and everyone else until she hears the faint whispers of her friends making plans. Excluding her. Not a big deal right? Wrong it's a huge deal for her. Her head starts feeling with thoughts like “am I not good enough,” “are they plotting stuff against me,” and “I wish I stayed home today.” Her heart starts to beat drastically, feeling as if it was beating a million times per minute. She feels as if she can’t breathe so she starts to Hyperventilate nameless 8th graders are startled. They look at her with concern, but that's the least of her problems because her chest starts to tighten as what feels like a wave of insecurity, death, and fearfulness hit her. She begins feeling compelled …show more content…
And it's a completely normal thing.
Emetophobia Recovery explains the science behind anxiety in extreme detail, but to sum it up; a person gets anxiety when the part of your brain called the amygdala gets a signal saying it needs protection, so it surges your body with neuron chemicals that make you feel anxiety.
“It really has nothing to do with not being strong-minded actually I think people with anxiety are actually the strongest people that you were up you will ever meet,” says an 8th-grade girl at Forest Park Middle School. A survey was conducted were students at forest park were asked two questions. Them being have you ever felt anxiety before and if so what caused it. 18 students took the survey and 75% of them said yes that they have experience anxiety before and the reasons varied from being big things like: my parents being divorced to family members being in the hospital. Some of the smaller reasons were things like: saying the wrong thing to their crush or not finishing their homework from the night before. This shows that anxiety can take form because