Fear of long words

Many have heard of uncontrolled fears, which are also called phobias. Some of them take a bizarre shape that seems ridiculous to most healthy people. However, a person suffering from such a disorder does not see anything funny in him. Fear can significantly complicate his life.

One of the most amazing and unusual phobias is the fear of pronouncing long words, which has the Latin name: hippopotamostrosesquipedalophobia.

The paradox is that the name of this fear is the longest word that is used in modern Russian.

In order to understand the basis of this phenomenon, we will consider what phobias are, why they arise.

Phobia, or obsessive fear - is one of the most common neurotic diseases of our time. The number of people prone to uncontrolled panic attacks increases year by year.

Phobia is an irrational compulsive fear that occurs only in certain situations, it can be accompanied by various unpleasant sensations: increased pressure, dizziness, palpitations, nausea.

A phobia is always associated with a certain object. The main danger of such disorders is that fear can cover an increasing number of objects and situations and seriously complicate communication with people if a person indulges him.

This neurotic disorder does not affect intellectual abilities. People, as a rule, take their condition critically, although they can not control it.

The first cases of such diseases appeared in the late 19th - early 20th century. Psychiatrists and psychologists of various schools and schools studied this phenomenon in detail, due to which we can get a fairly clear answer to the question of the causes of phobic disorders.

Obsessive fears can be the result of traumatic events or have an organic brain damage at the basis. In each case, the doctor determines the cause individually and prescribes treatment according to it.

The subjects of phobias change historically, new objects appear, and old ones disappear.

Currently, there are about 300 types of obsessive fears.

Phobias are often mentioned in art works, their strange and poetic names inspire musicians to create new compositions. So, you can say, phobias gradually become an important part of culture.

Fear of long words is manifested in the fact that a person tries not to utter complex sound combinations, since he is afraid that he will be deceived, he will tell them incorrectly.

Like any phobia, this fear is irrational, that is, it has no valid grounds. A person simply experiences horror at the sight of long words and tries to skip them when reading, especially in colloquial speech.

Consider what can be caused by the fear of long words. In psychology, there are several views on this problem.

Many psychologists believe that the reason for most of these strange phobias lies in the constant internal tension, anxiety, "corroding" the person from within. Negative emotions look for an outlet and find it in the form of freakish fears or rituals, through which a person maintains self-confidence.

Most often, people who try to control their entire life, any external events, and also their own particularities suffer from phobias. For good health, it is very important for them to maintain this illusion. They are frightened by those phenomena that seem to them uncontrollable. If a person is not sure of his ability to correctly and accurately pronounce complex words, he begins to feel fear of them.

In this case, the task of a specialist working with a person is to help him find the cause of increased anxiety and need for control. In the process of psychotherapy, this cause can be eliminated.

Psychologists of other schools believe that the source of fear can be a child's experience, which was so strong that it was fixed in the mind. A phobia that occurs in certain situations is a warning sign that signals that a painful experience can happen again.

Fear of long words can arise as a consequence of an unpleasant case when the child could not answer the teacher's question or caused laughter of peers by incorrect utterance of some phrases.

Then the treatment involves working with the patient's past in combination with the so-called overcoming method, when the patient gradually, step by step, gets used to the frightening object, in this case trying to pronounce long words under the control of the psychologist. This method is very effective and it can be used to quickly improve the condition.

Fear of long words does not require medical treatment. In most cases, the phobia is completely cured after a course of psychotherapy.

The most important step on the road to complete recovery is the person's desire to change and get rid of fear.