Social relationships are usually marked by a series of ups and downs, with both positive and negative experiences that occur throughout a person’s life. From all of them, certain teachings and lessons can be obtained to apply in the following ones, and thus improve one’s social skills. However, sometimes, negative experiences bring with them a series of consequences that remain and are harmful. As can be the difficulty to trust others.
After a strong disappointment, a betrayal or the discovery of a serious lie, that is, situations that have traumatically affected the individual, a feeling may arise that prevents these people from trusting someone again. Since they don’t want to suffer or be deceived again. A concern that can lead to what is known as pistantrophobia.
Pistantrophobia is the name given to the irrational fear that a person feels and that prevents them from trusting others again, that is, from establishing relationships of trust due to the possible negative consequences that these may generate. Generally, it usually occurs on the romantic level of relationships, but it does not have to be exclusive.
As with the rest of the phobias, this fear is always present when a trigger is found, a stimulus related to a specific situation, which causes the fear to be activated. Despite there being no real cause or risk for this to happen. What happens is that people with pistantrophobia end up avoiding establishing relationships with others as a way of protecting themselves.
