Claustrophobia

• gerb131

  

  Man in the box thread got me thinking. I'am claustrophobic as hell and would never make it ever for a billion dollars. Well maybe for a billion. But crawl spaces, attics, elevators, even tight caves such as Mammoth or some at Old Mans give me the heebie jeebies.
  Are you claustrophobic?
• justincredible

  

  I spent one summer working for a pipe rehabilitation company. We'd travel up to Boston every week and my days/nights would be spent inside 24" natural gas pipe resealing the joints. That broke me of my slight case of claustrophobia.
• gerb131

  

  justincredible wrote: I spent one summer working for a pipe rehabilitation company. We'd travel up to Boston every week and my days/nights would be spent inside 24" natural gas pipe resealing the joints. That broke me of my slight case of claustrophobia.

  Yea I couldn't do that, especially underground.
  When my older brother would babysit me as a kid, he would lock me in a crawlspace while he did who knows what. I used to bawl and bawl and never got used to tight spaces.
• BORIStheCrusher

  

  I'm okay as long as I feel I have some sort of control. By that I mean if I mean I could get out of the tight spot as soon as I wanted. But just thinking about being trapped in a box/coffin/trunk freaks me the hell out.
• gerb131

  

  BORIStheCrusher wrote: I'm okay as long as I feel I have some sort of control. By that I mean if I mean I could get out of the tight spot as soon as I wanted. But just thinking about being trapped in a box/coffin/trunk freaks me the hell out.

  Also one of the reasons I wished to be cremated.
• Timber

  Yes... Not too severe.
  So far the toughest are planes. I just make sure to get the aisle seat now. So I can stand up and walk the aisle a little. One time I had the window and needed to get out... waiting for the plane to taxi and the row to clear out so I could stand... got a little hairy. 14 Hours to Hong Kong was tough also, but the elevated ceiling on the large plane helped a bunch.
  
  I'm not looking forward to an MRI... I hear those are a little dicey.
• Glory Days

  

  aslong as i can move a little it doesnt bother me. now if you put me in a coffin and buried me alive, that is a different story and i would probably freak the fuck out.
• killdeer

  

  no problem with claustrophobia...
  have had the opportunity to do some amateur spelunking and loved it.
  
  now acrophobia (isn't that the heights thing?), that is another story.
• bcubed

  

  Not a problem here, but I have seen many people who are claustrophobic at work. I work in an xray department and we have to turn people away daily for MRI's because they can't handle being in a long narrow tube!
• Be Nice

  Not at all. I live in a box.
• Strapping Young Lad

  

  I had an MRI a few times and it's pretty freaky in there. Thinking of being buried alive makes me crazy too.....
• gorocks99

  

  Used to load planes w/ luggage, and the bottom of a DC-9 is no place for a claustrophobic. So, no, small spaces don't bother me.
• vball10set

  not really...but I'm sure none of us like the idea of being in a small,closed in space for long period of time.
• goldengonzo

  The bigger I've gotten, the more I've freaked out.
  
  Anyone remember the scene in Kill Bill 2 when Uma Thurman is being buried alive? I was squirming the entire scene, one of the most uncomfortable moments ever for me watching a movie.