It has been suggested that<unk>  occurs most frequently secondary to a traumatic experience of being choked by food.The act of swallowing becomes mentally linked with choking or with reduced capacity of the opening of the throat.Pseudodysphagia has a tendency to evolve progressively, as the sufferer becomes more and more preoccupied with the idea that swallowing will lead to choking, until this anxiety becomes a constant sensation whenever food is being consumed. Such events cause negative internal feedback to obtain exponential momentum, as the initial presence of fear gradually mounts into an inevitable and immense obsession. This anxiety will in time become strong enough to cause psychosomatic choking symptoms. Psychological and psychiatric studies Di Scipio and Kaslon (1982) conducted a controlled study with children within 1 year of having surgery for their cleft palate. Through the use of a questionnaire, a comparison was made between the eating patterns of these children with the habits of their siblings and an additional control group of children. The questionnaire included 32 questions relating to eating, including questions referring to taste aversion to different types of food. The questionnaire was also given out to close contact adults that were aware of the children’s eating habits. It was found that the children which had surgery possessed higher scores of feeding difficulties on the questionnaire than the two control groups. The items that contrasted the most between the different groups were “Small bites”,”Has to be prompted”, “Requires assistance”, and “Does not finish”. It was concluded that the difficulties in feeding were produced by classical (Pavlovian) conditioning. The unconditional stimuli being the physical damage in the course of the surgery, the obtrusive diagnostic approaches, the vomiting or poor suckling before the surgery had been temporarily paired with swallowing which resulted in the conditioned refraining of swallowing.
Pseudodysphagia
Presbyphagia
Dysphagia
Dysphagia lusoria
Hypnagogia
Coccydynia
Aphagia
Spasmodic dysphonia