Choking and swallowing phobias

Ever since literally as long as I can remember, I have had a phobia over choking on food, which rolls over into being unable to swallow pills. There are many, MANY things I can't eat because it feels as though if I swallow, it will be caught in my throat and choke me. My first memory is choking on food as a baby and being rushed to the bathroom to cough into a towel. I can't eat most fruit, such as oranges, pineapples, grapes, cherries, etc; many meats such as steak; mushrooms, stretchy cheese/stretchy anything, most vegetables (I would kill to be able to eat a salad, but the stringy quality gets me). Any serious thought of attempting to swallow such things while they're in my mouth makes me break out in a cold sweat and start trembling. Sometimes it can come and go with something I was eating perfectly well a moment ago and suddenly can't conceive of swallowing. I have never sought help for it, but research has told me it's called "anginophobia." I wish I could just <i>try</i> swallowing something to try and force myself into believing my throat can handle it, but the fear of having no one who could perform the Heimlich should it not work stops me. The one time I swallowed a pill was by accident, and my throat ached and could feel its path down to my stomach for hours afterward.

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I have a fear of buttons, I hate them! I despise them! Ever since I can remember, I refused to wear them. I feel like they will fly through the air and into my mouth and choke me to death. I feel really dirty when I touch them and I hate say the word or think about it. But now I HAVE to wear them, so my condition is much much better. Because I force myself not to think about it when I wear them or touch them. I always think they will choke me, even when they are on TV, and my worst fear would be drowning in them. I'd rather get drowned in toads! I thought i was weird and i must be crazy but then I found out it was real and all the symptoms matched up, it's called Koumpounophobia.

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I choke on my own saliva on a regular basis - I have no idea how or why I do this.

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