What do you call it when a person is afraid of getting stuck in an elevator with St. Nick?
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Santa Claustrophobia.
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1 day in an elevator. One long day may actually be good for us to get to know each other and help to resolve my hatred. And if not, the next day it's ancient history. Whereas over a full summer I'd dread each coming day and that would probably make my hatred increase. And I'd probably never resolve the issue b/c there would never be that "forced" confrontation like the elevator.
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Out of curiousity, what kind of anxiety to do experience in these situations? The scenarios you mentioned all seem like ones in which help or escape is difficult: are you worried about being 'escape-less', or are you worried that you will have a panic attack or health problems in such situations and are limited in getting help or looking foolish?\n\nIf it is the former, it sounds like a form of classic phobia, perhaps a combo of claustrophobia or agoraphobia...\n\nAlternatively, if you are worried about panic symptoms, you may have panic disorder, with agoraphobia...\n\nIf your anxiety as associted with a stimulus (i.e. when driving a car, on an escalator', it is unlikely to be a generalised anxiety disorder, as this implies that anxiety develops without a known source.\n\n\nHere are the diagnostic criteria for phobias and panic disorders\n\nSpecific Phobias:\n\n.......Marked and persistent fear that is excessive or unreasonable, cued by the presence or anticipation of a specific object or situation\n\n.......Exposure to the phobic stimulus almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response, which may take the form of a situationally bound or situationally predisposed Panic Attack\n\n.......The person recognizes that the fear is excessive or unreasonable\n\n........The phobic situation(s) is avoided or else is endured with intense anxiety or distress\n\n.......The avoidance, anxious anticipation, or distress in the feared situation(s) interferes significantly with the person’s normal routine, occupational (or academic) functioning, or social activities or relationships, or there is marked distress about having the phobia\n\n\nPanic disorder with agoraphobia\n\no         Anxiety about being in places or situations from which escape might be difficult (or embarrassing) or in which help may not be available in the event of having an unexpected or situationally predisposed Panic Attack or panic-like symptoms.  Agoraphobic fears typically involved characteristic clusters of situations that include being outside the home alone; being in a crowd or standing in a line; being on a bridge; and traveling in a bus, train or automobile.\n          Note: consider the diagnosis of Specific Phobia if   the avoidance is limited to one or only a few specific situations, or Social Phobia if the avoidance is limited to social situations.\n\noThe situations are avoided (e.g., travel is restricted) or else are endured with marked distress or anxiety about having a Panic Attack or panic-like symptoms, or require the presence of a companion. \n\n\nPanic attack is:\n\noA discrete period of intense fear or discomfort, in which four (or more) of the following symptoms developed abruptly and reached a peak within 10 minutes:\n\nPalpitations, pounding heart, accelerated heart rate\nSweating\nTrembling or shaking\nSensations of shortness of breath or smothering\nFeeling of choking\nChest pain or discomfort\nNausea or abdominal distress\nDizzy, unsteady, lightheaded, faint\nDerealisations (unreality) or depersonalization (being detached from oneself)\nFear or losing control or going crazy\nFear of dying\nparesthesias (numbing or tingling sensations)\nchills or hot flushes\n\nDistinguishing between panic and anxiety: panic attack symptoms develop abruptly and reach peak intensity within 10 minutes, rarely last more than an hour. Periods of anxiety, by contrast, are not as abrupt, intense, and are more long-lasting. \n\n\n\nHope that helps!
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yes, a couple of years ago when i was 25, i climbed 1500 steps to get to the top of Durham Cathedral, one of my friends was scared of heights, and i was teasing her as I'd always been OK with heights. we got to the roof and i thought i was gonna have a heart attack, and trying to climb down the spiralling stairs was just as bad as the lighting was awful. that'll teach me cos now i hate anything involving heights. and my friend actually enjoyed being on the roof!
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Lots of people are afraid of clowns  the phobia is called Coulrophobia- there are a lot of sites that advertise treatments for this fear so it may be fairly common.\n Some years back there was a convention of clowns  near where I lived and there were 100s of them running around  the local mall shopping during a break in the  convention and even though I'm not afraid of clowns it was pretty freaky.
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dont know aqbout the "jumping down" but the fear of high places is called "vertigo"
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I was once in an elevator with my fren and  with few ppl and when the elevator doors closed, he said , “It’s okay, don’t panic, they’ll open again.”
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I don't believe so, but one may be claustrophobic in a closet.
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In one of my psychology classes we had a girl ride in an elevator facing the back wall instead of the doors.  people get all weird, and end up facing the back wall too.  Think Bandura, Social learning theory/modeling.
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arithmophobia?\n\nFYI:\nHexakosioihexekontahexaphobia- fear of the numbers 666
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I usually say get me home right now! I was always afraid that something might happen to me. Yes, fell down the stairs couple of times, and one time I picked a fight with a bouncer 4 times bigger than me because he said I was underage.\nThe next time out i was burned from going to the club and friend asked me, don't you remember picking a fight with that security guard...I said no...I wouldn't do sure a thing. OH WELL...
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the one that get abuse are scare to tell someone.
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The word is an English adoption of the Greek words agora (αγορά) and phobos (φόβος). Literally translated in modern Greek as "a fear of the marketplace". A common misconception is that agoraphobia is a fear of open spaces. This is most often not the case since people suffering from agoraphobia usually are not afraid of the open spaces themselves, but of public spaces or of situations often associated with these spaces. The Greek word agora should be interpreted using the Ancient Greek meaning of the word agora (αγορά) which translates as "where the people gather" (later "forum" in Latin), which gives the idea of a crowded marketplace rather than just an open space -- this makes the common combination of agoraphobia and claustrophobia less conflicting.\n\nAgoraphobia today describes severe and pervasive anxiety about being in situations from which escape might be difficult or avoidance of situations such as being alone outside of the home; traveling in a car, bus, or airplane; or being in a crowded area (DSM-IV). Some people with agoraphobia are comfortable seeing visitors, but only in a defined space they feel in control of. Such people may live for years without leaving their homes, while happily seeing visitors and working, as long as they can stay within their safety zones.\n\nAn agoraphobic may experience severe panic attacks in situations where they feel trapped, insecure, out of control, or too far from his personal comfort zone. During severe bouts of anxiety, the agoraphobic is confined not only to his home, but to one or two rooms and he may even become bed-bound until his over-stimulated nervous system can quiet down, and his adrenaline levels can return to a more normal level.\n\nAgoraphobics are often extremely sensitized to their own bodily sensations, subconsciously over-reacting to perfectly normal events. To take one example, the exertion involved in climbing a flight of stairs may be the cause for a full-blown panic attack, because it increases the heartbeat and breathing rate, which the agoraphobic interprets as the start of a panic attack instead of a normal fluctuation.
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paraskevidekatriaphobia\n\nA morbid, irrational fear of Friday the 13th. Therapist Dr. Donald Dossey, whose specialty is treating people with irrational fears, coined the term. He claims that when you can pronounce the word you are cured.\n\nOr friggatriskaidekaphobia or  triskaidekaphobia.
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Like all fears and phobias, claustrophobia is created by the unconscious mind as a protective mechanism. At some point in your past, there was likely an event linking confined or small spaces and emotional trauma. Whilst the original catalyst may have been a real-life scare of some kind, the condition can also be triggered by myriad, benign events like movies, TV, or perhaps seeing someone else experience trauma. \nBut so long as the negative association is powerful enough, the unconscious mind thinks: "Ahh, this whole thing is very dangerous. How do I keep myself from getting in this kind of situation again? I know, I'll attach terrible feelings to confined or small spaces, that way I'll steer clear in future and so be safe." Just like that claustrophobia is born. Attaching emotions to situations is one of the primary ways that humans learn. Sometimes we just get the wiring wrong. \nThe actual phobia manifests itself in different ways. Some sufferers experience it almost all the time, others just in response to direct stimuli. Everyone has their own unique formula for when and how to feel bad.
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"The fear of worms is known as 'scoleciphobia'.\n\nRetrieved from "http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Worm"
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triskadekaphobia; the fear of the #13