Eleutherophobia
Fear of freedom (anxiety about being free or making choices).
Eleutherophobia
Fear of freedom (anxiety about being free or making choices).
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Examples
"Her eleutherophobia made major life choices feel terrifying rather than liberating."
"He clung to routines because eleutherophobia made freedom feel like burden."
Mnemonic Trick
Eleuther- = freedom (Greek) — imagine choice as heavy burden to remember.
Additional Information
Common Symptoms:
"Avoidance of independence, reliance on others' decisions, anxiety when faced with choice, paralysis by freedom."
Etymology
From Greek eleutheria = freedom + phobos = fear.
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