What is Pedophobia? Well if the sight of the child in the above picture causes you to shudder in fear, then you probably have Pedophobia.
From an etymological perspective regarding the words ‘Paedo’ and ‘Pedo’, what do these words denote? They represent babies, children, and young children, and the word phobia means fear. Therefore when placed together Paedophobia or Pedophobia simply means the “fear of young children”. People who are diagnosed with this condition are termed Pedophobic.
I got pregnant and had a baby at 16. Obviously unplanned and frankly the only reason I had the baby was because I didn't have the balls to go through with an abortion. It seems cold to write that out, but it's the truth.
When she was born, I stayed home with her for somewhere around 6 months. I breastfed and didn't really go out all the time like you always seem to see teen moms doing. Nonetheless, there were warning signs that something was off.
Pedophobia like most phobias is classified an anxiety disorder. Anxiety disorders are simply defined as mental disorders that make on overly prone to having feelings of anxiety usually in a specific context. Persons who suffer from Pedophobia can be greatly inhibited as many of them are forced to have encounters with children on a daily basis. It is therefore essential that for their mental health, this condition is treated as quickly as possible otherwise their life could quickly become one of daily panic attacks and feelings of terror.
Fear is an innate human emotion. It is often characterized by feelings of terror, anxiety, sweating, nervousness as well as others and it typically triggers a fight or flight response. Persons suffering from phobias generally are fearful of this that most people aren’t. It would be hard-pressed to find someone in this world who doesn’t suffer from at least one phobia. Hence when such a person comes face to face with his greatest fear on a regular basis, he has to somehow overcome it so that it does not become a major inhibiting factor in his life. A Pedophobic person is no exception.
Persons suffering from Pedophobia especially women live in constant fear of getting pregnant. You also have women who just do not want the responsibility of taking care of a child and thus they literally fear the idea of having child and sometimes this develops into a fear of children. This isn’t to be confused with women who fear being pregnant (Tokophobia) often because of the physiological effects. THE women fear being pregnant because of what will happen after nine months of pregnancy; yes children.
Pedophobia, what is the root cause of this strange condition? It is certainly not natural for people to be harboring a fear of harmless little children. It is certainly highly unlikely that these children whom many of these adults are fearful of pose any significant physical threat. There are children with Pedophobic tendencies but it is far more common in adults. Anxiety Disorders such as Pedophobia usually take time and exposure to social programming in order to becoming embedded in a person’s mind, therefore the prominence rate is more prevalent in adults than it is in children.