Cephalalgiaphobia

Cephalalgiaphobia is the fear of headaches or of getting a headache; cephalalgia is a Latin-based term for headache. Harvey Featherstone introduced the phobia in the mid-1980s as a fear of having headache or migraine pain during a pain-free period, and individuals with the phobia often have a history of frequent migraines and tend to overuse analgesic medication as a result, preemptively taking pain medication to try to prevent a future headache. Doctors often prescribe psychiatric medications rather than pain medications as treatment, and non-pharmacological approaches using acupuncture therapy have been shown to help reduce the fear.