Emetophobia in which the phobic person will go to great lengths to avoid even potential situations that could even be perceived as "threatening". Emetophobia is clinically considered an "elusive predicament" because limited research has been done pertaining to it. The fear of vomiting receives little attention compared with other irrational fears. Frank M. Dattilio. "Emetic Exposure and Desensitization Procedures in the Reduction of Nausea and a Fear of Emesis." "Clinical Case Studies" 2.3 (2003): 199-210.</ref> The event of vomiting may make anyone with this peculiar phobia flee the scene. Some may fear someone throwing up, while others may fear themselves throwing
Assault occasioning actual bodily harm including psychiatric injury but it does not include mere emotion, such as fear, distress or panic ..."</poem> In "DPP v. Smith (Michael Ross)", Judge P. said: Glanville Williams said that actual bodily harm is a silly expression because it suggests that there is some form of bodily harm that is not actual. In "DPP v Smith (Michael Ross)", the defendant held down his former girlfriend and cut off her ponytail with kitchen scissors a few weeks before her 21st birthday. The Magistrates acquitted him on the ground that, although there was undoubtedly an assault, it had not caused actual bodily