# Let's talk about claustrophobia **URL:** \ **Category:** Miscellaneous and Personal Stuff I Must Share\ **Created:** [February 3, 2022, 1:59am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-claustrophobia/958831 "2022-02-03T01:59:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 1\ **Showing post:** 44
**Author:** ![The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/t/ecc23a/32.png) [@The\_wind\_of\_my\_soul](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/The_wind_of_my_soul)\ **Post date:** [February 4, 2022, 5:10pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-claustrophobia/958831/44 "2022-02-04T17:10:46Z")
As others have mentioned, feeling unable to make a mad dash for an exit and escape is what scares me. It never used to scare me until one day, maybe ten years ago, when I was on a high floor in a government building and the fire alarm went off. We piled into the stairwell and then probably waited for a good twenty minutes as everyone in all the floors below us piled into the stairwell and exited in front of us. Interestingly, when I mentioned this incident years later to another coworker who had been standing in the stairwell behind me, he didn’t even remember it. So it clearly didn’t bother him at all. --- _[View the full topic](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/lets-talk-about-claustrophobia/958831)._