ABNORMAL FEAR = CLAUSTROPHOBIA.

There are many different phobias, like fear of clowns, fear of water, and come in all kinds and afflict all people. One of the most prevalent phobias in the World today is Claustrophobia, an abnormal fear of being in enclosed or narrow places.
Claustrophobia ranges from a mildly annoying problem to something that has potential to cause a great deal of stress, anxiety, and panic.
The word 'Claustrophobia' is derived from the root Latin words 'Claustrom' ('shut in place') and phobos ('fear'). It is typically triggered by a person's fear of being trapped in a small space, room, or vehicle. This fear of confined places can include elevators, windowless rooms, airplanes, or even tight clothing.
This type of phobia is typically filed under the umbrella term of 'anxiety disorder' though it seems much more severe in comparison. It can quickly begin to degenerate the quality of life for the person that suffers from it.
The difference between an anxiety attack and one brought on specifically by claustrophobia are the ways that they recur. Anxiety attacks may not always follow a pattern but feeling claustrophobic will always be triggered by similar events. Those who suffer from the fear of small spaces will almost react to them by sweating, feeling light headed, dry mouthed, and feeling the stomach like full of butterflies. This sweating is followed by visible shaking or trembling, minor numbness in the extremities, and the possible onset of nausea. In extreme cases someone faint or get sick.
The psychological reactions of claustrophobia, in full swing, begin with panic, dread, and eventual terror. The affected person become afraid of the consequences of being in a small room, or the space around, bringing an onset of confusion and disorientation.
The very nature of this phobia makes one acutely aware of their surroundings. The fear, as a resulting consequence, constantly hovers at the edge of awareness. The fear of confined spaces does not limit itself simply to rooms. People will also feel the same anxiety when they are in vehicles that do not have an immediate exit ability, like long rides in cars, on boats, or in airplanes. Also, when they get into elevators that are typically crowded, and small, because the box triggers and outright panic attack, feeling stuck into something that can stop working and consequently being trap in it. Dealing with tunnels and caves is also an issue, as a consequence, many individuals who suffer from claustrophobia, avoid the use of transportations that goes underground.
Many phobias originate somewhere during the childhood. There, events happened that we no longer remember, but they began the slippery slide to our own personal battle of timing our wild feelings. These phobias are prepared in our soul before birth as a way to help our physical and mental bodies to recognize potentially dangerous environments and situations, considered as part of the process of evolution into an eternal existence of the spiritual essence that reside inside us.
Physically, it manifests itself pointing to the amygdala as the cause of the problem. The admigdala is the smallest structure in the brain. Despite its size it is responsible for a large number of duties including your FIGHT OR FLIGHT response.
Patients with anxiety attacks frequently has smaller amygdala. Since the affected person had a great deal of trouble to overcome their own uneasy, and traumatic effects of their anxieties at a very early stage in their lives, it lead to the abnormal evolution of the amiygdala. The amygdala learned to behave conditionally every time the individual experiences the abnormal fear.
Events in the childhood that contributes to the development of an abnormal fear are:
-Being locked in a dark room without being able to find a door.
-An almost drowning experience.
-Being lost in a large crowd and has trouble finding familiar people.
-Being left alone and locked in a tight space like cars, closets, or other vehicles.
- Receiving a medical procedure at a very young age such as the MRI machine.
There are always ways to address the depth of these feelings insisting in the relearning how to deal with their own fears. Meditation and deep breath exercises help to settle the fear. Do not expect an overnight success over it because it does not work in that way.