Fear of Elevators: How to overcome your worries about elevators
Unless you’re friends with a particularly sloppy elevator engineer, chances are that there’s nothing that you could pin your fear of elevators on.
But that doesn’t stop your worry from being a real one.
Can you overcome a fear of elevators?
Having a fear of elevators can be a limiting factor in your life. After all, there are only so many flights of stairs you can climb to avoid stepping into a normal elevator.
Let alone those nasty ones surrounded by glass on all sides that are enough to give anyone vertigo.
The fear of elevators is caused by a mixture of some or all of these things:
- Fear of enclosed spaces – due to their very nature, almost all elevators are small. Places like airports may have slightly larger elevators but even these have claustrophobic overtones.
- Fear of heights. Again, part of the function of an elevator is to take you up (or down) a relatively large distance. If you’re afraid of heights then the speed these are reached in an elevator doesn’t give you much time to adjust.
- Fear of crowds or strangers. Often there are a lot of unknown people in an elevator who you are sharing your personal space with. This can be accentuated when you know there is no immediate way out.
- Lack of control. Apart from pushing a button and hoping that the electronics take care of the rest, there is very little you can do to control an elevator. You are in other people’s hands and may freak out about this.
So what can you do to cut down your fear or even eliminate it altogether?
One of the quickest solutions is to use hypnosis.
Just listen to a specially created fear of elevators MP3 a few times and you’ll notice your previous worries about using lifts and elevators start to melt away.