Again, it’s just another symptom of anxiety and/or stress. Mixing up words is not an indication of a serious mental issue. Because this is just another symptom of anxiety and/or stress, it needn’t be a need for concern. Many anxious and overly stressed people experience mixing up their words when speaking. When stress responses are active, we can experience a wide range of abnormal actions, such as mixing up our words when speaking. It’s not because they are experiencing some sort of mental issue but that being afraid has caused this emergency response change in brain function. This is often the reason people seem like they are stunned or like a ‘deer caught in the headlights’ when they are in dangerous situations and/or when overly anxious. Recovery Support members can read more about the exact physiological, psychological, and emotional changes in the ‘Hyperstimulation And Its Effects’ section in Chapter 14.Īs a result of these emergency response changes, our awareness and sensitivities to danger are heightened and our ability to rationalize, think clearly, and act clearly are diminished. This change is designed as part of the body’s survival mechanism because it’s better that we react to danger quickly rather than remain in the middle of danger trying to figure things out. The stress response (also often referred to as the Emergency Response) immediately causes a number of physiological, psychological, and emotional changes that enhance the body's ability to deal with a threat - to either fight with or flee from it - which is the reason the stress response is also often referred to as the fight or flight response.Ī part of the stress response changes include a change in brain function where the areas of the brain responsible for dealing with danger increase their activity and the areas of the brain responsible for rationally processing information become suppressed. This mixing up words anxiety symptom can seem much worse when overly stressed, overly anxious, when tired and fatigued, and/or when sleep has been disrupted and/or short.Īnxiety (behaving apprehensively) activates the stress response. This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can change from day to day, and/or from moment to moment.Īll of the above combinations and variations are common. It can also come in waves, where it’s strong one moment and eases off the next. This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can range in intensity from slight, to moderate, to severe. This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can precede, accompany, or follow an episode of nervousness, anxiety, fear, and elevated stress, or occur ‘out of the blue’ and for no apparent reason. This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom may precede, accompany, or follow an escalation of other anxiety sensations and symptoms, or occur by itself. For example, you may get your words mixed up once and a while and not that often, get them mixed up off and on, or get them mixed up all the time. This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can come and go rarely, occur frequently, or persist indefinitely. This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can affect only certain topics, many topics, or everything you are talking about. You are getting your words backwards, mixed up, jumbled, and out of correct order.
Others may point out that you are mixing up your words when speaking, which you didn’t seem to be aware of.You find that you are frequently mixing up your words, and this is beginning to bother and worry you.Even though you think through your thoughts carefully, your words get mixed up when you speak them.When you’ve mixed up your words, others found it funny but you may have become concerned that you might have a mental problem developing.Your words get mixed up frequently and it seems there’s nothing you can do to stop it.You unintentionally mix up your words when speaking.Sometimes you find that you mix up your words or that what you said didn’t make sense.
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