{"id":73418,"date":"2025-05-07T02:28:07","date_gmt":"2025-05-07T06:28:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/?p=73418"},"modified":"2025-05-31T02:37:28","modified_gmt":"2025-05-31T06:37:28","slug":"why-was-bella-ramsey-unable-to-leave-their-house-for-months","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/why-was-bella-ramsey-unable-to-leave-their-house-for-months\/73418\/","title":{"rendered":"Why Was Bella Ramsey Unable To Leave Their House For Months?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p data-start=\"186\" data-end=\"409\">In a candid appearance on <em data-start=\"212\" data-end=\"239\">The Louis Theroux Podcast<\/em> (May 5 episode), <em data-start=\"257\" data-end=\"273\">The Last of Us<\/em> star Bella Ramsey bravely opened up about their past battle with <strong data-start=\"339\" data-end=\"354\">emetophobia<\/strong>\u2014a severe fear of vomit\u2014that once left them housebound.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"411\" data-end=\"641\">Describing the experience as a <em data-start=\"442\" data-end=\"466\">\u201creally intense fear,\u201d<\/em> Ramsey explained how even the slightest nausea, either in themselves or someone else, would spark overwhelming anxiety. \u201cThe whole thing is absolutely terrifying,\u201d they said.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"643\" data-end=\"873\">At the height of their struggle, Ramsey turned to <strong data-start=\"693\" data-end=\"715\">The Thrive Program<\/strong> by Emetophobia Free to seek help. Thankfully, they now say they\u2019re <em data-start=\"783\" data-end=\"810\">\u201cnot emetophobic anymore\u201d<\/em>\u2014though they still have a heightened reaction compared to most.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"875\" data-end=\"1148\">The fear was so severe at one point that they avoided going out altogether, saying: <em data-start=\"959\" data-end=\"1036\">\u201cI couldn\u2019t even leave my house \u2026 because everything outside was a threat.\u201d<\/em> Even today, contact with someone sick can trigger obsessive self-monitoring and anxiety over potential illness.<\/p>\n<p data-start=\"1150\" data-end=\"1334\">Now starring in <em data-start=\"1166\" data-end=\"1182\">The Last of Us<\/em> Season 2 alongside Pedro Pascal and Isabella Merced, Ramsey\u2019s openness offers comfort and validation for others facing invisible mental health battles.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In a candid appearance on The Louis Theroux Podcast (May 5 episode), The Last of Us star Bella Ramsey bravely\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":294,"featured_media":73419,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[67],"tags":[2542],"class_list":["post-73418","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrity-news","tag-bella-ramsey"],"reading_time":"1 min read","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/294"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=73418"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/73418\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/73419"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=73418"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=73418"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.businessupturn.com\/usa\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=73418"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}