Emetophobia Emetophobia Emetophobia is a phobia that causes overwhelming, intense anxiety pertaining to vomiting. This specific phobia can also include subcategories of what causes the anxiety, including a fear of vomiting in public, a fear of seeing vomit, a fear of watching the action of vomiting or fear of being nauseated. It is common for emetophobics to be underweight, or even anorexic, due to strict diets and restrictions they make for themselves. The thought of someone possibly vomiting can cause the phobic person to engage in extreme behaviors to escape the perceived (and sometimes very real) threat of that particular situation,
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