Hello I hope you are doing well at this time. My pERSONAL feeling on your disorder is not that you are afraid of vomiting. You are scared, or had an episode of vomiting and panicked because you felt helpless, and sick. Thephobia I feel is not the vomiting but the deathly scared feeling of getting sick and death. If that makes sense and you relate the vomiting to death and it becomes a very traumatic incident to get sick because of the relation to vomiting and dying. It is generally turned into panic and fear of death and causes POST TRAUMATIC STRESS DISORDER from trying to control not becoming sick, even to the point of OCD and not wanting to be around germs, and so forth. If the OCD< and the POST TRAUMATUC STRESS is not dealt with the disorder becomes harder to control stresswise, because the panic is always there around condiditons that make disease possible, so you try to control your environment so that you wont get sick but many times the stress makes you sick from wanting to comtrol the environment, so you wont get sick. It just becomes a never ending cycle of sickness and confusion and exhaustion from the overconcern over sickness from the OCD. The post traumatic stress that comes from sll of this is just worse because of the stress factors as well and in time all you feel is burned out and burned up. maybe you should leave an email for the Dr here on this site so that he can maybe help you find a therapist that deals with Post Traumatic Stress that is sometimes the root of the problem and the OCD, and the constant obsession of germs, and getting sick. If you can find a therapist to help you figure out why you have the PTSD then the OCD can be helped it is not just forget about it, it is a disorder and a very serious disorder at that, and I hope you find help soon for your problems, so that you can get better with the right therapy for the OCD and the PTSD that has caused this obsession that you fear death and dying. Take care I hope the best for you in your journey, to find the help you need. Sincerely Soidhonia