worried about sickness bug!

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Please can anyone help,I was with my brother Sunday and till Monday lunchtime,he has been sick and bad since 6pm last night,does anyone think I will catch it? I am so worried about being sick it is making me paranoid and making me go bad,I have sought help for it but it isn't working it is ruining my life!!! :(

I think you will be ok. You were not with him when he started showing symptoms and so the chances of you having contracted anything from him are very small. I know exactly how you feel, though. I have pretty bad emetophobia and it is sometimes really disabling

Thankyou spacechimp,how do you deal with your phobia please,any tips?

I don't really deal with it very well. I try to rationalise my thoughts but tbh when I am having a bad episode then there's not much I can do. It's usually worse when I've got other stressful stuff going on, but sometimes there's not really a pattern, though when it's winter and norovirus season I have been known to make excuses/avoid situations I deem to be high risk, even though they're probably not. And if family/friends/work colleagues have a sickness bug then I am in a complete state.
I have wider health anxiety and have had cbt in the past but it didn't make as much difference as I'd hoped. There have been some really useful threads about dealing with emetophobia in mental health in the past so maybe have a look there to see how others have coped with it better than me.