Has anybody ever felt claustrophobia? I know this seems really weird, but I got it and I started to think it was because im still in the closet and i want to come out (deep inside). could this be linked? One of my doctors mentioned that the claustrophobia (which started when i was stuck in an elevator) was linked to an event that traumatized me, possibly at that age 14 (which was the age i started to realize i was gay). I wanna go to a shrink but im scared of talking to him about this and about me being gay. i know this sounds dumb, but i have a fear of what people think about me, its horrible. has this every happened to anybody else? (
Omg yes! I had forced myself to be with a girl in a relationship for 6 months and I developed depression and anxiety while I was with her. After I got out and moved on I had this dream that I was stuck in an enclosed space and I woke up in a panic. I've been freaked out by tight spaces ever since then (I think my mind may have subconsciously been looking for something else to freak out about because of the anxiety I developed while with that girl). I've been doing healing meditation to try to help with it and I've been working on accepting my homosexuality also. I can definitely see a potential link there between feeling trapped by homosexuality and not being able to accept it and claustrophobia. I hope you can work it out.
