Hi dr i am 36 male i have claustrophobia

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We would like to inform you that claustrophobia is a disorder that causes the person an irrational fear that he has no escape or ends up being locked up. This fear causes panic attacks in some situations as the fear of closed places.

Symptoms:

- Sweating

- Increase in heart rate and breathing faster

- Flutter

-Feeling nauseous

- Trying to find exits and stand beside them and feeling very scared if it is closed.

- Fear of overcrowding.

Methods of treatment:

- Confronting fear through  having something that is you are afraid of ,so that you can overcome the stage of fear and make sure that you are healthy and nothing  happened to you , and there can be with you someone you trust to support you and strengthen your resolve.

- Watching other people facing their sources of fear so you could get excited to imitate them.

- Try to change your thoughts toward what frightens you.

- It is possible to use some drugs and anti-depressants under the supervision of a specialist doctor.

Finally, I would like to let you know that the fear of closed and narrow places is irrational and there is no logical justification of it, and you have to overcome that so as not to aggravate the problem and that by following the methods of treatment that have been mentioned.

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