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I can not bring myself to ride in an elevator because I am so scared of getting stuck in it or it falling. I take the stairs whenever i am in a hotel.
Does anyone else have this fear??
I am so glad I found this story!!!!
I am terrified of elevators, I mean seriously, it could because of all the horror/suspense movies I've watched in the past, a lot of them, people get trapped or killed (Resident Evil - beginning part) Eek.
I went to ST. Lukes Hospital in Boise, Idaho around the end of summer this year with my boyfriend, so we could meet up with his friend who was visiting his mother, and while we were looking, my boyfriend slips us into a "STAFF" elevator and after the doors closed, nothing happened because you need one of the staff's magnetic keys to operate it from floor to floor, EVEN TO OPEN IT!!
I freaked out and practiclly had a panioc attack, he just laughed at me, he already laughs at me when I hold onto the bars on the backwall of the elevator and close my eyes, my whole body clenches up and I try to get in that happy place, talk about nerve wracking!!!!
It's certainly not the most common fear there is--especially if it prevents you from using them, but I think most people have the thought of getting trapped in an elevator at the back of their mind whenever they ride one.
But, look at the bright side, you're getting more exercise by taking the stairs, which is also an excellent alibi if anyone asks why you won't take the elevator.
Step 1. Look at a picture of an elevator! Step 2. Be in the same room with an elevator! Step 3. Lay down some salt in the elevator step 4. Go inside an elevator! Step 5. Push the button with your ........ Step 6. Repeat the progress. After 4 weeks doing this you will finaly be enabeled to make love with. THE ELEVATOR
ya i get the same thing dude.But be bave teird to go and ride it be bave.
Phobias are completely normal it doesn't matter if they sound stupid ,irrational fears are suposed to have no sense but it still scares you . Yours seems simple as you know exactly what are you scared of just confront your fears and you will understand how stupid they really are
Yours is a not so uncommon variant of claustrophobia, which is in turn one of the most common phobias around.
i hate riding in elevators. they make me all dizzy. plus, you get some exersize when you take the stairs.... why not avoid them?
i think of it every time, but just try going from floor 2 to 1.than try doing more and so on.
Its just your fear in your head that's making you not ride it.
Let me put it this way:you should be afraid of walking beacuse you could get:raped anytime,killed by a some gang, hit by a car and so on.
You should be afraid of bathing because electr might kill you and so on.
Thing is,all the time we can get killed by everything, but we just don't think of it.
Hope i haven't turned you into paranoid, but i'm just telling you that
Its really stupid to fear little thing that make our life easier.
FACE IT whenever you are ready.