“…These patients are particularly prone to anxiety, primarily due to the perception that they are judged negatively in their communities due to what many perceive as an embarrassing condition (Robinson, 1999). According to Asakitikpi (2015), meanings assigned to social behavior mediate people's actions toward an external stimulus. Therefore, the perception of being judged, in this case due to their nonsexual penile erections, usually causes adolescents with priapism to become more reserved and to fail to interact with peers, and even withdraw from social spaces (Asakitikpi, 2015).…”