Mixing Up Words When Speaking - anxiety symptoms (2024)

Anxiety disorder can cause many problems, including getting words mixed up with speaking. Here are some descriptions of the mixed up words anxiety symptom:

• When you go to speak, even though you are thinking clearly, it seems when you say the words they come out mixed up, backwards, or flipped around.
• When speaking you notice that your words get mixed up even though you knew what you wanted to say.
• Sometimes you find that you mix up your words or that what you said didn’t make sense.
• You unintentionally mix up your words when speaking.
• Your words get mixed up frequently and it seems there’s nothing you can do to stop it.
• 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.
• Even though you think through your thoughts carefully, your words get mixed up when you speak them.
• You find that you are frequently mixing up your words, and this is beginning to bother and worry you.
• Others may point out that you are mixing up your words when speaking, which you didn’t seem to be aware of.
• You are getting your words backwards, mixed up, jumbled, and out of correct order.

And so on.

This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can affect only certain topics, many topics, or everything you are talking about.

This mixing up words when speaking anxiety symptom can come and go rarely, occur frequently, or persist indefinitely. 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 may precede, accompany, or follow an escalation of other anxiety sensations and symptoms, or occur by itself.

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 can range in intensity from slight, to moderate, to severe. 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 change from day to day, and/or from moment to moment.

All of the above combinations and variations are common.

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.