“Come on, get in quickly!” your friend shouts from inside the lift that should take you up to the top floor of the department store. “Errm… I’ll take the stairs and meet you up there!” you yell back. As the doors close, you feel very relieved. It’s a long way up to the eighth floor, but you don’t care anything to get out of going in a lift!
When a person has a phobia, they will often shape their lives to avoid what they consider to be dangerous. The imagined threat is greater than any actual threat posed by the cause of terror. A phobia is a type of anxiety disorder that causes an individual to experience extreme, irrational fear about a situation, living creature, place, or object.
