Champlain Towers North in Miami. Photo: NYTimes. Glitch: RegiaArt.

Miami Building Collapse and Kakorrhaphiophobia, Do You Know What It Means?

Regia Marinho
4 min readJun 28, 2021

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It’s an abnormal fear of failure, a kind of phobia.

Self-portrait (The Desperate Man), c. 1843–45, Painting by Gustave Courbet. Glitch: RegiaArt

kakorrhaphiophobic

Kakorrhaphiophobia is the abnormal fear of failure or defeat. Atychiphobia.

“Failure isn’t the opposite of success; it’s part of success.” Arianna Huffington.

What’s fear of failure?

The underlying cause of fear of failure is actually fear of the resulting shame or embarrassment.

One has to be brave to show the world his own creations. Some of us are terrified to publish our art online.

Fear of the structural failure of their building.

The collapsed Champlain Towers South scared people who live in Champlain Towers North.

Residents of the Champlain Towers North in Miami are very afraid, anxious, and terrified about their building's structural stability.

For me, it’s a real fear, a fear that has a concrete motif even their building is in much better…

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Regia Marinho

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