Jake, who has a fear of enclosed spaces, decides to take the stairs.
I declined, telling him I had a fear of enclosed spaces.
Claustrophobia is often defined as "fear of small or tight spaces."
Ted mentioned he always had a fear of enclosed spaces like the kind he now hides in.
Claustrophobia is the persistent illogical fear of small spaces or physical restraint.
(Perhaps a fear of confined spaces would be good in a President.)
"Since then I've had panic disorder and agoraphobia, fear of open spaces," she said.
They'd discovered her fear of enclosed spaces and they were pleased.
If you have a fear of confined spaces (claustrophobia), tell your doctor before the exam.
She wondered suddenly whereby her old fear of open spaces when she was a girl had simply come from being so shortsighted?
