A metaphobia is one of the worst phobias to have because it affects your life every minute of every single day. Most of the metaphobics have an obsessional side to their nature, they tend to be quite perfectionist in their attitudes, a lot of them have low self-esteem and high social anxiety. All of these different traits and thinking styles work together to create the metaphobia in the first place, so it can be something that's very difficult to get over. The more common forms of psychotherapy and CBT and much of what the NHS has to offer is relatively ineffective in treating this phobia. So one of the forming symptoms if you like of a metaphobia is social anxiety and social anxiety can be quite crippling. Because most metaphobes have a certain amount of social anxiety, they don't really tell anyone that they've got this problem, so not a lot is known about it. In fact most GPs and most professionals have never even heard of a metaphobia. Metaphobia really is a fear of being sick and excessive worries about being sick and anything related to being sick. If you feel that you fall into this category there is help out there for you, please just follow the guidelines. I've created something called a Thrive Programme and specifically a program within Thrive called Cure Your Metaphobia and Thrive which is specifically tailored to help a metaphobes overcome their fear. We recently ran a six month research project where 62 metaphobes came through our program and all 62 of them got over their metaphobia. There is help out there. Have a look at metaphobia.co.uk