The fear of public speaking is the most common phobia ahead of death, spiders, or heights. The National Institute of Mental Health reports that public speaking anxiety, or glossophobia, affects about 73% of the population. The underlying fear is judgment or negative evaluation by others.

McCroskey argues that there are four types of communication apprehension:

• Trait anxiety.
• Context anxiety.
• Audience anxiety.
• Situation anxiety.

Speech anxiety can range from a slight feeling of “nerves” to a nearly incapacitating fear. Some of the most common symptoms of speech anxiety are: shaking, sweating, butterflies in the stomach, dry mouth, rapid heartbeat, and squeaky voice.

Dysarthria often causes slurred or slow speech that can be difficult to understand. Common causes of dysarthria include nervous system disorders and conditions that cause facial paralysis or tongue or throat muscle weakness. Certain medications also can cause dysarthria.

A ‘spoonerism’ is when a speaker accidentally mixes up the initial sounds or letters of two words in a phrase. The result is usually humorous.

With anomic aphasia, the person has a hard time finding words. This is called anomia. Because of the difficulties, the person struggles to find the right words for speaking and writing.

When you forget a word, it has not disappeared from memory; it is still there, but in the moment of speaking something is preventing it from being fully retrieved. The inability to find words can indicate brain injury or infection, strokes, and degenerative diseases like Alzheimer’s.

Lethologica is the technical term for this type of forgetting. Like many other English terms associated with the mind, lethologica is a modern word derived from classical Greek. In this case, the Greek words are logos.

5 Ways To Avoid Forgetting Words When You’re Telling A Story!

1. DON’T panic! It’s not the end of the world!
2. Stall or buy time.
3. PRACTICE the story ALONE before you tell it to someone.
4. DESCRIBE the WORD that you are looking for with SIMPLER WORDS.
5. Save the story for later.

First, it’s possible we don’t remember names simply because the person isn’t important to us, or we’re distracted during the introduction and not paying attention to them, or if we don’t like them (which makes our ego will our conscious brain to disregard them and their name).

Anomic aphasia (anomia) is a type of aphasia characterized by problems recalling words, names, and numbers.

However, it is important to realize that forgetting for a short period of time, even a well known friend’s name, is not necessarily a sign of dementia. It can be a result of stress, lack of sleep, infection or even a medication interaction. In this case, forgetting names or appointments occasionally is normal.

Q3. How do you feel when people can’t remember your name? When people can’t remember my name, I feel I am not important to them, and they don’t care about me. I also feel that I didn’t leave much of an impression when I first met them, and that’s why they didn’t remember.

When you pretend to forget our names we snicker silently because we know that your lack of subtlety and over-acting are signals that you’re clearly trying too hard, and you probably have our names memorized. To be clear, not all men are this clueless.

Names are difficult to remember because they are arbitrary information. And humans are terrible at remembering arbitrary information. It’s very hard to say.

Oftentimes people tend to forget the names of people they’ve met. So if someone remembers your name, either they have a very good memory, or they liked you enough to remember the words you’ve spoken, including your name. It would probably be far easier though if you simply asked her how she feels.

Forgetting people’s names comes down to lack of interest and difficulty. Charan Ranganath, the principal investigator at the Dynamic Memory Lab at the University of California, Davis, told Time that you might not care enough to remember a particular name.

According to the university’s press release on the study, in a circumstance where you know someone’s face but can’t seem to place their name, you’re relying on a brain function called recognition to remember the person’s face, and another function called recall to remember their name.

Help the person remember by stating and repeating who you are by name and association. For example: “Hi Dad, it’s me, your daughter Samantha.” This can reassure your parent. Reminisce using pictures and familiar items, or create a memory book to support their memory.

How To Make Someone Forget Something Positive

1. Excuse yourself to go to the restroom or take a break. When you come back, ask a question about a new topic.
2. Bring others into the conversation if you’re in a group or in a public place.
3. Make your new topic sound related.
4. Move.
5. Be honest.

Stress, Sleep Deprivation, and Memory Sleep deprivation, which often goes hand-in-hand with periods of elevated stress, is a common cause of forgetfulness because it affects the brain’s ability to store and recall memories.

For most people with Alzheimer’s—those who have the late-onset variety—symptoms first appear in their mid-60s. Signs of early-onset Alzheimer’s begin between a person’s 30s and mid-60s.