claustrophobe
Fears tight spaces
A claustrophobe is someone who experiences claustrophobia—fear or anxiety in enclosed or confined spaces.
The term often appears casually for anyone uncomfortable in tight quarters, elevators, or crowded rooms: As a claustrophobe, she always took the stairs.
Vertical conveyance between floors
- tunnelEnclosed underground route
- closetBuilt-in storage chamber
- basementSubterranean building level
- subwayUnderground transit passage
airplane · MRI · cave · crowd · windowless · cramped · tight · small
Persistent apprehensive distress
- panicUncontrollable sudden fear
- fearEmotional response to threat
- dreadIntense anticipatory fear
- suffocationFatal lack of air
trapped · enclosed · confinement · hyperventilation · sweating · terror · irrational · trigger
Flight from captivity
breathing · medication · avoidance · CBT · exposure · desensitization · meditation · grounding
elevator
Vertical conveyance between floors
subway · airplane · MRI · cave · crowd · windowless · cramped · tight · small · narrow
anxiety
Persistent apprehensive distress
suffocation · trapped · enclosed · confinement · hyperventilation · sweating · terror · irrational · trigger · avoidance
escape
Flight from captivity
therapy · breathing · medication · avoidance · CBT · exposure · desensitization · meditation · grounding · reassurance
- phobicsarachnophobe, hydrophobe, germaphobe, technophobe, xenophobe
claustrophobespelunker
Recreational cave explorer
caver · cave diver · cave dweller · submariner · miner