Sometimes there are phobias that are not taken seriously because they are very similar to attitudes that can be considered normal. It should be remembered that a phobia is characterized by having a behavior that can make your life very complicated. With this in mind, today we talk about pedophobia or the fear of children and babies.
What is pedophobia?
Don’t you like children? There are more and more people who feel a certain rejection of sharing moments with children, generally because of how noisy and annoying the little ones can be. There are also people who refuse to hold a baby because they see them as too vulnerable. But so far it is a behavior that has nothing to do with.
Pedophobia is the fear of children or babies. Not because you don’t like them, not because they bother you, but it is a can lead to panic and is linked to an anxiety disorder. It is one thing that you do not want to have children around when you are trying to relax and another thing is that the presence of children causes you an anxiety attack.
Symptoms of pedophobia
Therein lays the real problem with pedophobia, as with many other phobias. Fear jumps in front of the stimulus, in this case a child or a baby and the typical symptoms such as dizziness, sweating, palpitations, nausea, nervousness or difficulty breathing occur.
The physical symptoms worsen when the person who has pedophobia begins to think that he is a kind of Herod and that he is useless to live in society. After all, the children are there and that person tries to avoid them. Even if you don’t have children, you can’t always avoid children and self-esteem plummets when this makes you feel like a bad person.
Causes of pedophobia
It is not known exactly what causes pedophobia. Theo many phobias are found in the anxiety disorder itself, which generates unreal fears and fears. Although this panic in children may be motivated by some traumatic experience.
Having had a traumatic childhood or having lived unpleasant experiences in childhood can be a reason for developing this disorder. And it can also happen if a delicate episode has been experienced with a child, such as an accident, for example, or even a death.
Pedophobia treatment
Phobia of children it is necessary to seek psychological help. Do not forget that sometimes phobias cause excessive reactions that in some cases can become violent. And in the case of pedophobia, it is as much about overcoming the phobia as it is about protecting the child.
The therapy chosen by the professional will have the objective of finding the origin of this fear of children in order to work on the behavioral aspect from there. Stop associating children with something unpleasant or traumatic is something that must be accompanied by relaxation to reduce the stress component that this situation produces.