Phobias and anxiety

Just wondering if anyone on here had ever suffered with, or does suffer with, a phobia or anxiety?

Has anyone here successfully managed to treat a phobia, anxiety,or are there people going through treatment?

I have Emetophobia - fear of vomitting or other people vomitting. Im not doing too well with it at the moment. I had a panic attack and nearly passed out at a party last weekend because a guy was being sick outside I was shaking and crying for about half an hour so its not the best phobia to have at a party

I suffer from a social phobia which makes me feel crap, so I know exactly how people feel when they suffer from one too.

So far I havent found any successful treatments and was just wondering what helped other people. I am thinking of having some hypnotherapy but not sure if it would work or not.

What kind of social phobia? Do you mean something like agrophobia where you find it distressing going out the house etc.

i have hydrophobia - fear of water. i'm not scared of like tap water or anything... just of being in water. too many near-drowning experiences!!
also very rather scared of bees and wasps... also linked to bad childhood experiences
i've attempted to get over my fear of water by learning to swim but eventually i gave up cos i keep getting panicky and refuse to do anything heh... but i think bee and wasp fear is getting sliightly better as our school was overrun by massive wasps during the winter so i had to learn to not COMPLETELY freak out when one came in... (that doesn't mean i didn't freak out a bit though.... )

in the winter???? ****in hell lol!!!! what school u go 2 neways? xoxo

i know...horrifying!! they lasted until around february then began to die out... until they were replaced by the usual summer wasps about maybe a week later lol.
i'm finished school now but it's in kilkeel, co.down. am going to university in september (belfast) hopefully

I dont want to go into too much detail here because I dont have the confidence, but basically I worry about going out to new places (ie shops, concerts, clubbing, work, if I have to go to meetings, etc) in case I make an idiot of myself.

Im not scared of other people, more of myself and how my body will react if Im in a new situation. Sounds weird I know.

Ok, well hope everything turns out okay for you

I suffer from a social phobia which makes me feel crap, so I know exactly how people feel when they suffer from one too.

So far I havent found any successful treatments and was just wondering what helped other people. I am thinking of having some hypnotherapy but not sure if it would work or not.

I think you just need to get over it, as it were. Force yourself to talk to people. I used to be shy as well. If you talk to people you don't know once, you'll know you can do it again. I can kind of understand why you're scared of social situations, but if you think about it, it's a bit irrational - you shouldn't fear people! Most of the time they just want to be your friend.