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Androphobia: How the fear of men can affect your life
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You don't have to be afraid and alone.
As the title implies, androphobia is the abnormal and persistent fear of men. While a fear of this type may be caused by a fascination of crime statistics, this is not the usual cause for the phobia. In most cases androphobia is developed due to a traumatic event. It could be a number of things that range from seeing your mother physically or verbally abused to being a victim of rape at any age. It can be closely related with the fear of rape, virginitiphobia, although people that suffer from this may have never been the victim of rape but still fear it as if they had.
Androphobia can have an adverse effect on your personal and professional life. Many sufferers of androphobia live single for the majority of their lives without any psychological treatment. Although you can live a normal life full of friends and many other social networks, you can never know what marriage is like. Some people may have no issues with that, but there are many women who want the married life but unable to take that path due to androphobia.
As far as your professional life is concerned, it is no mystery that a majority of the workplace is made up of men. The ratio of women to men has greatly increased over the course of thirty years, but statistics still show a moderate margin. This is where a phobia of men could prevent you from getting a promotion, a raise or even obtaining employment. I am not saying you must necessarily like your male co-workers, but you do have to be social in the workplace for you to be able to move along in your career e.g.,(interviews, meetings, etc.).
So now you can see how different areas of your life could be affected by androphobia. On another note, there are many little girls in the world that are naturally afraid of men from a very young age. I wouldn’t want any mothers to immediately assume they have been harmed in the past for them to have developed this fear. Most young children are afraid of men because of their deep voices and size rather than anything more serious. You can determine whether a real problem exists if it persists throughout their older years. The fear of men is something I believe to be very common and treatable. With the proper counseling, many women can overcome their fear of men and go on to lead successful lives with a lower stress level.
For more info please visit: http://organizedwisdom.com/Androphobia
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