Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being ignored. Since they have that fear, they tend to be attention-seekers. From my previous post, being an attention-seeker is a form of rebellion. This mostly happens to girls. One of the causes of this is being fatherless. But what other factors that contribute for this kind of phobia?
As I was searching on the internet. I found an article entitled "Athazagoraphobia Risk Factors & Causes." This article is about the factors of having an athazagoraphobia. It even includes ways how to treat it.
"Cases of athazagoraphobia are usually (although not always) caused by an intense negative experience from the past," the author wrote.
What the author quoted generally talks that this fear starts when a person had negative experiences in the past. The article does not specifically emphasized that those negative experiences were caused by the father of an athazagoraphobic person.
It talks about different kinds of traumas which include other people and situations.
If there is an external cause for athazagoraphobia, there is also an internal predisposition. I came across an article called "Athazagoraphobia is the fear of being forgotten!" The author talked about the external and internal factors of athazagoraphobia. The external was also about traumas.
But for the internal causes, "It is believed that heredity, genetics, and brain chemistry combine with life-experiences to play a major role in the development of phobias."
As commonly know, fears our products of traumas. But the fact is, fears, including athazagoraphobia can be inherited. If someone tends to be an attention-seeker, try discovering his or her ancestors if someone from them was athazagoraphobic.
Since most of psychological illness are hereditary, athazagoraphobia, which is considered a psychological illness can be easily pass from generations to generations.
This leads to a conclusion that athazagoraphobia is not only caused by the rebellion of a fatherless daughter. Even if the father supports their daughter but have a history of athazagoraphobia among their relatives, there are still a lot of possibilities that the child will become athazagoraphobic or attention-seeker in which it can be mistaken as a form of rebellion.
My father was always there. But I remember feeling deep sadness when I was left out of things. All my brothers and sisters were 3-9 years older than me, so they went out without me sometimes and I felt really really left out. I remember how much it hurt. But it wasn't the feeling of being left out as it being not fair, not in the way, the hurt was because I felt left behind. The nightmares I used to have at that time were of falling in a hole and being in a dark hole while my whole family was above the hole on the ground (not in the hole). They were talking but not about me and not trying to get me out.
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