Emetophobia in public or having to witness someone else vomit, as the start of the emetophobia. They may also be afraid of hearing that someone is feeling like vomiting or that someone has vomited, usually in conjunction with the fears of seeing someone vomit or seeing vomit. There is a strong agreement in the scientific community that there is no specific cause of emetophobia. Some emetophobics report a traumatic experience with vomiting, always in childhood. Some suggest that sufferers are victims of childhood abuse – sexual or physical. While this is occasionally true, it seems to be no more prevalent than
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