Word for the feeling of dread/complacency that comes when an individual starts with something new and doesn’t know what to start with, but rather like something new/leaving something completely different. That’s very similar. Was that ever true?
What is the feeling that comes to you when you’re faced with a new problem or need very little help? Is it the mental force or weight of some combination of dread, complacency and intimidation that causes a person to freeze? I suppose it could be described as generalized form of “writers block for life situations”.
I know what this feels like, and I don’t know how to express it, and it
is highly frustrating!
What is the best way to learn from every new year?
To have cold feet is to be too fearful to undertake
or complete an action. Is there
a good source for Wikipedia for a free Wikisource?
If your husband has flat belly, there is a phrase or two for this situation: blank canvas paralysis.
It is a relatively new coinage and it is originated in painting where painters can’t start painting and keep staring at the blank canvas; but it can be applied to any situation.
Whenever you are about to start something new, you risk ‘Blank Canvas Paralysis’, the inability to get started. What is scary and frustrating make you doubt yourself but once you understand or address it to the best of your ability you can, you face it and start moving on.
Of course, it is not only artists who face blank canvas. They face the same problems. What looks like your petrifying phase?
Themodernnomad. In
a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that:
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like an imbility. How paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, or what to paint the painter on canvas: You can’t do anything. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. A lot of painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas – but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares, who has broken the spell of you can’t’ once and for all.
Source: Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Who may have influenced the project? Written October 1884 in Nuenen. Translated by Mrs. Helen Peterson , interpreted by Mrs. Hu00e9lu00e8ne Husayn]. Johanna van Gogh boonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number 334. URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/14/378.html. htm.
Is there any plan to return to college without investment and need to invest?
Unless a specific preexisting term is identified, I believe the neologism archophobia is in order:
noun
a morbid dread at the commencement of creative work
Origin
From The Greek meaning begin, make a beginning, and , meaning panic flight, fear, object of terror Liddell & Scott, A
Greek-English Lexicon Archophobia is to be
distinguished from acrophobia –the fear of heights, and arach
Fear of newness, novelty. Cainophobia / Cainotophobia in English.
Kainophobia is the fear of anything new, nor of anything unexpected.
According to Wikipedia, these preexisting phobias tend to describe a fear of changing from the normal, rather than the creative process.
alpor
noun
a: a state of mental and motor inactivity with partial or total insensibility b : a state of lowered physiological activity typically characterized by reduced metabolism, heart rate, respiration, and body temperature that occurs in varying degrees especially in hibernating and estivating animals :
apathy, dullness, drowsiness
l : adapted animals : erector noun a : a state of mental or motor inactivity
Trepidation would emphasize fear and anxiety: noun
1
a feeling
of fear or anxiety about something that might happen; ODO.
To have cold feet is to be too fearful to undertake
or complete an action. Is there
a good source for Wikipedia for a free Wikisource?
If your husband has flat belly, there is a phrase or two for this situation: blank canvas paralysis.
It is a relatively new coinage and it is originated in painting where painters can’t start painting and keep staring at the blank canvas; but it can be applied to any situation.
Whenever you are about to start something new, you risk ‘Blank Canvas Paralysis’, the inability to get started. What is scary and frustrating make you doubt yourself but once you understand or address it to the best of your ability you can, you face it and start moving on.
Of course, it is not only artists who face blank canvas. They face the same problems. What looks like your petrifying phase?
Themodernnomad. In
a letter to his brother Theo, Van Gogh wrote that:
Just slap anything on when you see a blank canvas staring you in the face like an imbility. How paralyzing that is, that stare of a blank canvas is, or what to paint the painter on canvas: You can’t do anything. The canvas has an idiotic stare and mesmerises some painters so much that they turn into idiots themselves. A lot of painters are afraid in front of the blank canvas – but the blank canvas is afraid of the real, passionate painter who dares, who has broken the spell of you can’t’ once and for all.
Source: Vincent van Gogh. Letter to Theo van Gogh. Who may have influenced the project? Written October 1884 in Nuenen. Translated by Mrs. Helen Peterson , interpreted by Mrs. Hu00e9lu00e8ne Husayn]. Johanna van Gogh boonger, edited by Robert Harrison, number 334. URL: http://webexhibits.org/vangogh/letter/14/378.html. htm.
Is there any plan to return to college without investment and need to invest?
Lassitude might approach the feeling of mental paralysis.
n. h.
A state of weariness, diminished energy, or listlessness.American Heritageu00ae Dictionary of the English Language, Fifth Edition.
From etymonline. In the
early 15th.: com ; early 15c.: com. , from Middle French lassitude (14c.),
from Latin lassitudinem (nominative lassitudo) “faintness, weariness,”
from PIE *les “slow, weary”
(source also of Old English lt “sluggish, slow;” see late)), from root *le- “to let go,
slacken”
Status of loss and disorientation predicated by a change in one’s familiar environment that requires adjustment Symptoms: Feelings
of
helplessness and withdrawal Schizophrenic (fear
of
moving
about in
an undesirable
direction) Sensitivity Mood
swings
Glazed stare Physiological stress reactions
Boredom Getting “stuck” on
one thing Suicidal or fatalistic thoughts Metathesiophobia:
unwarranted fear of breaking routine.
Tim, there was a term “neurasthenia” in the medical profession. I know this is a medical device, but I thought you might find it interesting. If you Wiki it, you will read about Buzz Aldrin suffering from it, with a meaning similar to Scott M’s “lassitude” or Little Eva’s “enervation”, but you should know that Russian psychiatrists make a bigger deal of the term, with, I think, a somewhat different meaning. Why a neurasthenic is unlikely to make a good fist of starting a big project.
Ever thought about the people who adore starting something with a “new project buzz” and never finish them? Equal to opposite?
Why does the term ‘education’ work in this name?
