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Fear of lifts!!

  • 18-05-2010 1:23am
    #1
    Denimgirl
    Closed Accounts Posts: 392 ✭✭


    I have terrible fear of lifts, that afraid that I walked 12 flights of stairs ina hotel 'up and down every day than toget in the lift to my room!!

    It's just a fear of getting stuck in a little tin box with no windows and not being able to breath!! I also have a fear of going into the toilets in aeroplanes incase of the lock getting stuck!! I know I have it bad guys! lol

    Any suggestions in getting over this??

    Thanks

    DG


Comments

  • #2
    johanz
    Closed Accounts Posts: 217 ✭✭johanz


    Only lifts and toilets? Maybe you got a small case of claustrophobia?


  • #3
    TPD
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 7,814 ✭✭✭TPD


    I got stuck in a lift for an hour and a half last week. If I hadn't had a torch and credit card with me it would have been a lot longer. Was grand, would have been panicing if I'd needed the toilet though.


  • #4
    TanG411
    Closed Accounts Posts: 2,836 ✭✭✭TanG411


    My brother also has a fear of lifts, he would prefer to walk endless flights of stairs than to get into a lift. He says he doesn't have a fear, but it is fairly obvious. :D He doesn't know where the fear originated from though.

    He is fine when going into small areas, like cubicles, but it's just lifts he is afraid of.


  • #5
    Mental Mickey
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 10,663 ✭✭✭✭Mental Mickey


    One of my aunt's is the same - and she had a fear of flying.

    She came to England with myself and my Dad a couple of years ago, and up till then had only been on a plane once - on her honeymoon.

    Anyhoo, she struck up the nerve to get on the plane and flew over to Brummie.

    We also went down to London for the day and she got up on the Millenium Wheel!!!


  • #6
    Rasmus
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 2,075 ✭✭✭Rasmus


    TPD wrote: »
    I got stuck in a lift for an hour and a half last week. If I hadn't had a torch and credit card with me it would have been a lot longer. Was grand, would have been panicing if I'd needed the toilet though.

    How did the credit card help?


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  • #7
    minister poxbottle
    Closed Accounts Posts: 439 ✭✭minister poxbottle


    true story back in the eighties stuck in a lift from saturday night 6pm till tuesday 9am twas a bank holiday weekend this happened at ucd wasn't even a student :(


  • #8
    Emme
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 4,055 ✭✭✭Emme


    Larkin91 wrote: »
    My brother also has a fear of lifts, he would prefer to walk endless flights of stairs than to get into a lift. He says he doesn't have a fear, but it is fairly obvious. :D He doesn't know where the fear originated from though.

    He is fine when going into small areas, like cubicles, but it's just lifts he is afraid of.

    I hate lifts and revolving doors. I stayed with Italian friends last year and they were tickled pink when I chose to walked up and down 12 flights of stairs instead of using the lift. I hate any room without a window - I guess I'm claustrophobic.

    Funnily enough I met a girl who works for a lift company recently and she avoids using lifts where possible as she knows too much about them!


  • #9
    watna
    Closed Accounts Posts: 10,367 ✭✭✭✭watna


    I work on the 25th floor of a bulding and a woman I work with has a phobia of lifts. She has to get someone to go down with her in the lift and when she comes in to work in the morning or during the day she waits at the bottom of the lift and asks everyone if they're going up past the 25th floor, if they're not she waits until someone is so she won't be alone in the lift. It works for her anyway. She manages to work around her phobia.


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