How to overcome Atelophobia

YULIANI (3091311022)
Cause and Effect Essay

Have you ever felt hated being alone but also so scared to get close to anyone at the same time? Is it normal? It's normal, because we live in the society that everyone always feel better than the other nowadays. The feeling when you want friends but you are afraid for being close to them is one of the symptoms of Atelophobia. What is Atelophobia? According to Wikipedia “Atelophobia is the fear of not being good enough or imperfection. Atelophobia is classified as an anxiety disorder that can affect relationships and makes the afflicted person feel like everything they do is wrong.” This condition connects with both mental, emotional and physical being, that’s why it makes Atelophobia’s one of the very serious condition. To get to know what effects Atelophobia give to its victims, here are three  main ones : depression, lack of social relationship and unsuccessful life.

When you have an atelophobia you will have a difficulty in thinking about good thing. It is of course lead you to depression. You will have no interest to doing anything because everytime you plan to do so, the fear you have is more bigger than the thing you wanted to do. Some unhealthy emotions such as anger to yourself, sadness, jealous of others and feeling hurt without can do anything at all also will appear. And when you fail at something you will have a very extreme disappointment like there are no other way out. You will worry too much, over thinking it and will feel traumatic for doing the same thing again.

As a human we need society. We need others and we can’t live without others. But an atelophobics will find it hard to associate with others and it makes them lack of social relationship. They always think that they aren’t good enough at something, for example in making friends. They are less confident about theirself. They have pessimistic view of the outcome of situation even before it happens. That is why most of atelophobics have less friends and become a loner. Sometimes other people will judge them as arrogants for not being friendly enough. Believe it or not they want to be with others, but they just can’t sort theirself out yet.

When you are less confident about yourself and always uncertain im doing something, it will lead you to an unsuccesful life. You will have no success because you have more fear in your mind. An uncertain feeling makes you lost opportunity that is impossible to come twice. You can’t even tried to prove you can do it, because in your mind it is just failure and failure. Also when you are in such difficult situation all in your mind is just an order to leave the situation and regrets why you are even tried it. So that’s why it is hard for atelophobics to get success.

Atelophobia is more dangerous than any other similar condition. Because it attacks the basic thing in someone, both mental, emotions and physical. But it doesn’t mean we can’t get rid off of them. The vicyims can choose several therapies and we also can help them out for example, do not leave them alone, talk to them, don’t treat them differently and respect their situation. Because we are all human and we need humanity.