Name the Psychiatric disorder!

Factual Questions
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Having grown up in a pretty darn messed up family I thought that I had had a first hand experience with pretty much every possible psychiatric disorder out there.

(that and both my grandmother and mother worked as nurses in a psychiatric facility)

But this one is leaving me stumped;

what is the official name for the following symptoms:

Breaths out ‘bad’ breath that can make others in area sick but <i>only</i> occurs when the person is having an anxiety / panic attack set on by a fear of public speaking.

I am guessing that the breath would be caused by almost any sort of massive fear, but that the person just got doubly screwed by A Deity Of Your Choice by also being born with a fear or public speaking. Either that or something happened with their breath at some time that then gave them a fear of public speaking as a side effect cause.

The breath would likely not ever be noticeable if the person was not afraid of public speaking though, but of course it would take just one traumatizing incident to create a fear of public speaking. . . .

::sighs::

:frowning: :frowning: :frowning:

Do any SD’s out there know of what this malady is called?
::notes that if anybody recognizes any real life humans from this post that they had <i>sure as fucking hell</i> not mention it because that means you life close enough to me that I WILL find you and. . . ah well lets just say I can be awful damn sadistic. ::

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2

I she/she actually breathing out bad breath, or is it imagined?

3

Maybe they’re trying not to vomit with anxiety?

4

If the person was delusional then I would have mentioned that.

It would make the entire situation quite obvious really. Heh. :slight_smile:

5

Sounds like they’re hyperventilating as a part of an anxiety attack. I have a friend who had such bad panic/anxiety attacks with this forced breathing thing that they passed out when the attacks occured. As thier job required them to often climb tall ladders, it was a disabling affliction.

6

The condition would be called psychosomatic halitosis.

From ** www.qualitydentistry.com/dental/halitosis/rfactors.html **

It’s my guess that anxiety can, in some people, lead to excessive stomach acid production or release of gastric gas into the esophagus; both of these can cause bad breath.

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That’s one thing I love about these boards – you learn something new every day!

And now, the next game: “Guess My Sexual Perversion”

[from Woody Allen’s “Everything You Always Wanted To Know About Sex But Were Afraid To Ask”]

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