How Common Is the Fear of Elevators?

Elevator phobia refers to abnormal fear of the common behavior of taking an elevator. In the workplace, it is more manifested as fear of superiors or subordinates.

Elevator phobia

Psychological causes of elevator phobia

1.Some elevators are too luxurious or unreasonable

This is the objective factor that causes elevator phobia. In some high-end apartments, the elevator is very luxuriously decorated. It is equipped with four mirrors and is divided into countless small pieces. Let the passengers never know which one is who they are. In such an elevator, a person always feels that there are countless individuals who follow him, and these "countless individuals" are his shadow. Some high-rise buildings have two elevators installed but only one runs. Excessive congestion may also cause the disease.

2.Elevator passengers have encountered elevator failures.

If you have ever been trapped in an elevator, if you happen to have an abnormal sound during the elevator, it will cause elevator phobia. Once negative events will leave a psychological shadow to the passengers who take the elevator. They always feel that all elevators are unsafe, so some people will refuse to take the elevator and prefer to climb the stairs.

3. The embarrassment encountered by many people on the ladder

The elevator door opens. If the crow crowds a group of people inside, it s human and meaty. Once in, the eyes are either a messy back of the head, a flat chest, or a giant magnifying nose hair that has been enlarged numerous times. The nostrils are huge; the smell is even strange, with mouth odor, fox odor, foot odor, fart odor, and the most terrible is perfume odor. At this time, hate can't close the five senses, absolutely seven tricks.

The most embarrassing thing is that the four eyes are opposite each other in the elevator. The two are standing. If they are pretending to be okay, they actually use each other's light to look, observe, and inquire, like a biopsy. The small space and the atmosphere are awkward. If you are sitting on a needle felt, you can't wait for the elevator to go up and down. These may cause elevator phobia.

Psychotherapy system desensitization

Elevator phobia psychotherapy

For the treatment of phobias, the most commonly used method is psychological therapy, such as system desensitization. This is the safest and most effective behavioral treatment method for phobias. The "step" fear value is set by the doctor, and the patient is gradually and gradually exposed to the front or place that causes the fear, so that the patient's senses are gradually stimulated, and the degree of fear of the stimulus is gradually reduced, and eventually the symptoms completely disappear . This method is relatively gentle and easy to accept for patients. The disadvantage is that the treatment time is long and the effect is slow.

Lift phobia

Another commonly used psychological therapy is full irrigation. Full irrigation method is currently the best psychological treatment for claustrophobia. This is a radical behavioral therapy. This method is based on a certain psychological counseling, suddenly placing the patient in front of or in the place of fear, using imagination, or directly bringing the patient into the situation he is most afraid of. Encourage the patient to imagine the scene that most scares him; or the psychologist repeatedly and even tirelessly tells the details of his most fearful situation; or use videos and slide shows to show the most fearful situation of the patient to deepen the patient's anxiety Degree, at the same time, patients are not allowed to take evasive actions such as closing eyes, crying, or blocking ears.