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Claustrofobia

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Does anyone else feel trapped and panicky when there are too many people in a room and somebody is standing in the doorway? Like… I need to get out immediately. Cars are horrible too. I had two panic attacks in the car because I felt so trapped. I hate the feeling where you can’t leave a situation at any moment… 

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Claustrophobia

I’m trapped

The walls are closing in

Tighter and tighter

There’s no space

I’m panicking

My heart is beating in my chest

faster and faster

There’s no escape

I’m suffocating

Each breath sticks in my throat

Hot and humid

There’s no air

I’m weeping

The tears fall endlessly

warm and salty

There’s no hope

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Claustrophobia – The Fear Of Being Enclosed In A Small Space Or Room And Unable To Escape.

Illustrations by Shawn Coss.

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The peak of day to day anxiety is feeling claustrophobic from a band aid around your finger.

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Living With Anxiety: Claustrophobia

           I was swimming laps in the pool, noticing the way that people would watch me for a moment, slightly confused. Yes, I swim laps for an hour a day. No, I do not swim like a normal human being.

            With my anxiety, I have severe claustrophobia. And yes, it is the thing where I can’t be in a crowd where I can’t move without being touch or I’ll freak out. But no one really thinks of how claustrophobia can leak into other things. For instance, freestyle swimming. The basic thing to do when you swim laps. I can’t take the feeling of having my face in the water but not fully under water. I can’t take lifting half my face up to breathe every few strokes. I have to have my face fully above or fully under the water or I feel like I’m trapped. Even though I know I can come up for air if I want, it’s just that feeling of panic and the need to breathe. So I swim like a person who never actually learned to and get weird looks because of my anxiety.

            Or sweat. Have you ever thought about how on a hot day when you get all sweaty, how it actually coats all of your skin? I can’t stand being sweaty without panicking because I’m fully trapped by something I can’t get rid of. And rain? I can walk in the rain but as soon as I get to a dry place I can’t stand the water all over me.

            It is a constant thing that even I can get surprised by. Scarves, turtlenecks, sometimes leggings on bad days. Basic clothing can trigger it.

            This is just one of those things that people do not generally realize affects daily life. Some people can struggle to go through such basic things that others do not realize. It’s good to be conscious that people can be handicapped in ways that you can’t see, and even I try to condition myself remember this. Always educate yourself and be conscious that everyone else walks life at least a little differently than you.

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| Claustrophobia: The fear of small spaces | Feartober day 3

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Feartober Day #3: Claustrophobia

I 👏  HATE  👏 CLOSED  👏 SPACES  👏

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HEY!

SO

This SHOULD be a given!

But I want y’all to

FUCKING LISTEN

If you are

IN A CROWD

with someone who is

EXTREMELY CLAUSTROPHOBIC !

And they do not give you

EXPLICIT PERMISSION

to do so

DO!

NOT!

FUCKING!

TOUCH!

THEM!

I DONT CARE IF THEY ARE

YOUR BEST FRIEND

YOUR SIGNIFICANT OTHER

YOUR CHILD

YOUR SIBLING

ECT.

IF THEY DONT TELL YOU THAT YOU CAN TOUCH THEM

JUST DONT FUCKING DO IT

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Claustrophobia

The thing about claustrophobia is that it’s not just small spaces and big crowds. It’s a blanket that clings just a little too much or is just three ounces heavier than you can handle. It’s the ring on your finger or the watch on your wrist that suddenly means your entire arm is immovable. It’s collars and side-seams of t-shirts that don’t sit right. It’s socks and shoes that are just tight enough that you can just feel your pinky toe on the side of the toe next to it meaning that your foot is now stuck in a tube that is slowly squeezing it into a noodle. It’s your favorite pair of jeans that you cannot wear because you just washed them and the fabric is now tight again which means you’ll have no ability to move your legs at all once you put them on. It’s the panic of being strangled when a stray hair falls across your neck. It’s the pain of being a tactile person who can’t cuddle with their people because too much body heat too close means that all the air is being sucked out of the room and you will die. It’s having to sleep naked, not for a comfort prefernce, but just to be able to breathe and move. It’s full body immobilization because a friend grabbed your wrist to keep you from walking into someone when you weren’t looking.

Claustrophobia is being able to physically feel the affects of all of these things while I type this out with nothing touching me. It’s knowing that in the morning I’m going to have to spend thirty minutes figuring out what my limit is for the day and what outfit I can wear without having a panic attack. It’s being fully aware that these things are in no real way a danger to my life but being completely unable to stop the panic when one of these things inevitably happens. Claustrophobia is a balloon growing in my chest while I’m compressed inside of a vacuum sealable bag from outside.

I think my claustrophobia controls my life. I hate it.

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Have you got any claustrophobic one liners? (Is that what they’re called? I forget lol)

Definitely 👍

- “Let me out!”

- “I can’t breathe!”

- “We’re locked in!”

- “Get me out of here!”

- “It’s closing in on me!”

- “Don’t leave me in here!”

- “We’re running out of air…”

- “The walls, they’re too close – ”

- “Planes are flying metal coffins.”

- “No, no, don’t close the door, please!”

- “Fields…ocean…the park…open spaces…”

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Some anatomy practice with Amy from Across the Universe, based on that first harrowing chapter. Part of my YA heroine fanart-series from sci-fi/dystopian books

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does anyone else picture claustrophobic spaces and just shudder...? or is that just me

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@ all of the people with anxiety or claustrophobia or both: Don’t wear a onesie (specifically the ones you get from Walmart or target with the cute characters) to bed. I just woke up having an anxiety attack because I accidentally fell asleep wearing one. It was one of the worst experiences.

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So bandaids give my fingers claustrophobia