Help me to stop panicking!

[sievehead]

I can't believe what a silly fool I am. Have just collected DD1 from school where 2 members of her nursery class had been sick during the session. As we have a big weekend planned, I have gone into total panic mode about us all catching it.

I think I have some kind of phobia - why can't I just chill out? I'm telling myself not to be silly, but can't stop worrying. I seem to be frightened of having to deal with sick, or being sick myself, and think it stems from when I had morning sickness. What can I do to stop myself being like this?

can you write down what it is about being sick that worries you so much?

sievehead (like the name!) there's a thread somewhere about emetophobia

here it is

There has been a thread on emetophobia recently (a phobia about sickness) - with lots of emetophobes coming out of the closet. I wonder if someone could find it and post a link. You aren't being silly.

I can't because I'm not sure exactly what it is that frightens me. Its the idea I think of all of us being ill at the same time - I just see a bug as something - I don't know - its hard to explain - black/threatening because you never know if you're going to get it or not. REally hard to explain. Sorry....