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People suffering from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia tkết thúc to lớn experience a great giảm giá of anxiety when faced with long words. It is indeed ironical that the scientific name given khổng lồ this phobia is such a long one. Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia can actually be broken down inkhổng lồ several parts: Hippo- is ‘horse’ in Greek và potam-os is river. Thus the first part of the word refers to a water horse also otherwise known as Hippopotamus. The Oxford Dictionary uses the word: Hippopotamine lớn refer lớn “something very large”. The word “monstr” is the Latin origin of a ‘monstrous being’ or something that is huge or terrifying & sesquippedalio is derived from Latin sesquippedali meaning ‘measuring a foot and a half long’. Phobos stands for morbid fear.
Causes of Fear of Long Words Phobia
Most specific phobias, including the fear of long words phobia, are caused by an sự kiện that is recorded by parts of the brain (namely the amygdala và hippocampus) as dangerous or deadly. The body then reacts as if the same event is bound to lớn happen repeatedly. A person with severe Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia is literally held a prisoner by his feelings of anxiety và panic he experiences at the thought or sight of long words.
No one is born with this phobia. Most people have simply learned it from an unpleasant episode. In fact; many individuals vị not even remember how the fear started.
School going children (or in some cases, working adults) might have sầu experienced being laughed at or having been embarrassed (or found themselves shaking, trembling etc) when reading/pronouncing long words. The mind then continues lớn create the same response without any basis. For a person suffering from Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia, the mind develops negative images, bad movie-lượt thích stills at the thought or sight of long words.
Symptoms of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia
Each individual is different and so are his/her symptoms of Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
Typically, the symptoms of long words phobia can be characterized as mental, emotional or physical. Many individuals feel extremely anxious or have a full blown panic attachồng at the sight or thought of long words.
Physical symptoms include shaking, crying, running away, trembling, feeling nauseated, experiencing headaches, rapid or accelerated heartbeat và shallow breathing etc.
The person is likely to lớn feel dread và terror; his mind creates very bad pictures such as embarrassing oneself, passing out etc when faced with long words.
Often the patient understands that his fear is irrational and unsupported; however, he is unable khổng lồ control himself & is powerless lớn rationalize.
Treating và overcoming the fear of long words phobia
The good news is that Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia can be overcome. Drugs và medicines must be the last resort as these simply mask the symptoms of anxiety experienced due khổng lồ the phobia. The solution lớn overcoming the fear of long words is lớn mainly ređiện thoại tư vấn & evaluate the factors that have sầu led lớn the phobia in the first place.
Therapists can also help evaluate these factors to come up with a treatment plan. The individual is then encouraged lớn expose self khổng lồ long words gradually: beginning with just seeing the word, then progressing lớn thinking about long words và finally saying them. Such gradual exposure helps lessen the panic until the individual is completely comfortable & can face long words confidently.
Using self help methods like deep breathing, relaxing và meditating etc are also recommended while dealing with this phobia. Talk therapy, cognitive behavior therapy & behavior therapy are some other important và effective therapies for treating Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia.
What vị you Gọi someone who is afraid of unknown words?
I work with a woman who is afraid of words she doesn’t know or recognize.
Believe it or not!!!!
My lord, why is this a thing, I have not drawn but wrote all the phobias in My Journal, I almost skipped this one.
Am I the only one that finds it funny that the word for the fear of long words is an extremely long word?
Everyone who is afraid of this fear is afraid of the word itself because the word is incredibly long so why did scientists name the word Hippopotomonstrosesquippedaliophobia if the word is one of the longest words in history.
I think it IS the longest word in the English language.I’d love lớn find out who “named” it, in order to know who to dedicate this month’s “a**holes of history” award khổng lồ.
