[rhcpchance]

I got so worked up and anxious in T that I actually threw up. UGH! Does anyone else get really nauseous while in T?

[Suratji]

One time before going to session, I thought it might be a risk for me and I was going to ask T if she had a bucket in the room. Luckily the sensation passed but it was a fear.

I threw up in the parking lot once after a 3 hour trauma-focused session with ex-T.

I get anxious between T appointments and make myself physically sick. But thankfully, thus far, I haven't done it in the office yet.

I can get extremely nauseated when I am emotional... feeling connected to my T, needy, little, vulnerable, and the like. Usually the feeling passes in a few minutes, but once I actually ran out of my T's office to the bathroom and threw up.

I think it's normal for intense feelings to manifest in bodily reactions such as nausea.

[PTSDlovemycats]

I have come SOOOO close to puking in T's garbage can. She always knows that when we start talking about "real" things I get that pukey feeling...

[SpiritRunner]

fear does this to me too, makes me feel sick at my stomach. once I told T, I feel like throwing up! she said, really?! and started looking around for something just in case!

[Perna]

Oh, rhcpchance, how unfortunate. I think I'd be mortified and have a heck of a time going back. How did your T handle it?

I threw up in second grade (1956-57) and the teacher put her arm around my shoulder and said, "Bless your little heart!" and I remember how miserable I was, both with the teacher hugging and trying to comfort me and the "public" being sick. I wasn't the only one who remembered it the rest of her life either; we moved away and came back when I was in 11th grade and the first week of my new school I met a guy, a friend of a friend's friend's brother, and he instantly asked, "Aren't you the one who threw up in second grade?"

[elliemay]

Nothing like that has ever happened to me in therapy.

I gotta be honest, I am of two minds on this. In one mind, I guess if one is going to experience that level of anxiety and fear, then perhaps therapy is the appropriate place to feel it.

The other mind (and it's a big one) tells me that this should never be allowed to happen in therapy. The therapist should help the client to contain and control the intensity of emotion such that it never reaches the puking point.

This event should really be the canary in the coal mine for your therapist to help you. On some level, this is just wrong to me and is not part and parcel of therapy at all.

[granite1]

i get really nausiated but have never gotten to the point i puke in T office yet but it is a huge fear of mine

[crazycanbegood]

Sometimes I feel nauseated. Usually I feel more anxiety which results in sweating, tingling in my arms, and/or stomach cramps.

I think your nausea is a sign of your doing serious work to get better!

[crazycanbegood]

One more thing, i've laid on the floor writhing in the throes of a massive panic attack. Another time I was lying across the couch bawling, hyperventilating, and cramping throughout my body. I think my skirt rolled up and T saw more than she wanted. Poor T held my hand and tried desperately to calm me down so I wouldn't pass out. We all have embarrassing memories in therapy.