If you get major anxiety when considering travel, listen up – experts say you may have hodophobia. Many of us have heard of terms like claustrophobia and germophobia…well hodophobia is the medical term for an extreme fear of traveling and it can interfere with the way people see the world.
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00:00If you get major anxiety when considering travel, listen up.
00:04Experts say you may have hodophobia.
00:07Many of us have heard of terms like claustrophobia and germophobia.
00:11Well, hodophobia is the medical term for an extreme fear of traveling,
00:15and it can interfere with the way people see the world.
00:19Healthline describes hodophobia as an extreme irrational fear of traveling.
00:23The site notes that it may cause you to fixate on your fear of traveling
00:27and you may not be able to think about anything else.
00:30Some symptoms include increased heart rate and blood pressure,
00:33rapid breathing, and dizziness.
00:35And in extreme cases, experts say hodophobia can cause panic attacks.
00:40A chief physician editor for WebMD tells HuffPost that it may be triggered
00:45if someone has experienced, quote,
00:47a traumatic event while traveling themselves or heard of a major world event
00:51like a deadly plane crash and developed the fear based on hearing about the tragedy.
00:56Experts say it's important to work with a mental health professional to manage the condition.