Androphobia is the abnormal and persistent fear of men. This phobia results in the avoidance of situations where men are present. That’s pretty much everywhere.
Like most phobias, androphobia is triggered by a traumatic event at a young age. In my opinion I feel that it can be triggered at any age by physical and emotional abuse, rape or any other life changing event that involves a man.
This is definitely one of those phobias that have to leave you not only afraid, but alone. If you don’t want to go where a man will do then you can’t go out to eat, go to the store or to the movies. Everywhere you go, you will run that risk of having to be near a man. I think this phobia will lead to severe anxiety problems.
If you have Anthrophobia let us know what it feels like and how you cope.
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Another phobia after that fear of mirror's!!!
As i already said in the post mentioning the fear of mirrors ,I lost my dad in my 10 year's of age .
The process is this , he committed suicide right in front of my eyes ,taking the poison into his cup and then into his mouth and i ran in bought my mother, and from then on all the people from neighbourhood rushed in and everything was in complete chaos and the next thing i was sent to my neighbours house with my 6 years younger sister , until he was to be returning from the hospital .
He was bought in as a corpse .
From the minute onwards everybody including my mom started telling ,the people arriving the he suffered a heart attack ,but i had seen it all , and they thought i was too young but i still have those scenes in my mind as fresh as they happened yesterday .
I know this sounds like a tragic movie , but this event has moulded me into what i am today , i am a very independent woman of 21 years of age and have just at the completeion stage of my B-TECH Biotechnology .
But i haver never found peace in my life ,not even with my family and just cant face men in all public places , there's a constant consiousness around me and i try to be as simple as i can . There's also no trust in married life after having been gone thourgh this .
I have just decided to after ,finishing my ug to adopt a child after two years and live singly throughout my life .
Anyone is free to help ,if they think i have a serious problem , and thanks for this blog , i am opening up after 15 years ,an information not even my mother or my close friends know .
My email - THARANIROBUSTER@gmail.com
I am 12 years old and I am afraid of men, or really any man or boy taller than me or that has a deep voice, or both.
my fear comes from when I was very young, my father was a drunk and took drugs. whenever I was left alone with him for long periods of time I would be found alone and in the dark, traumatized.
these experiences left me not being able to trust men, most likely because I was not cared for properly and sometimes abused.
when I was in about fifth grade a sixth grader on my bus would harass me and tell me he loved me and tell me to kiss him. He got was to close and usually touched me in ways that made me uncomfortable and scared. of course this resulted in fear, and made me also not trust others because they let it happen.
I have not yet learned to cope and get wildly afraid when a man or boy is about, say, five feet away. The only way I can feel comfortable around a boy is when he is shorter than me and has a high voice.
When I am faced with my fears, my heart beats fast and I twitch wildly, I start thinking about what horrible things he could do, my mouth gets dry and I feel like I have to run away or I'm going to get hurt or touched or even just talked too. I know this is NOT hormones because this has been going on my entire life and is starting to ruin it. I am twelve years old and have never had any kind of moral understanding of men or of my fear of men, I am so afraid that I dread the moment I have to go outside and see them.
Thank you both for your comments! I apologize for how long it has taken me to update the blog and to see your comments. I know from personal experience that phobias are hard to deal with, but I hope that you can both find the strength to overcome your fears. I wish I could tell you how, but I can't. Stay strong and please keep reading!
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