e/Cephalgiaphobia

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has gloss	eng: Cephalgiaphobia is fear of headache, or fear of the next headache. It is derived from cephalgia (headache) and phobia (fear). The term is used for patients that are fearful of headache pain, or even exhibiting pain-panic. Cephalgiaphobia is a psychological state that has been linked to prompting and sustaining the overuse of medication. Pain-panic situation is described as a significant and uncontrolled fear over anticipated painful events, which can prompt excessive and obsessive drug-taking behavior and, ultimately, medication overuse. The medication overuse may turn, in turn, itself be the cause medication overuse headache. The term Cephalgiaphobia was coined by Dr. Harvey Featherstone in the mid-1980s
lexicalization	eng: Cephalgiaphobia
instance of	(noun) pain in the head caused by dilation of cerebral arteries or muscle contractions or a reaction to drugs headache, head ache, cephalalgia