Anyone else hate going in lifts? Just had a mini panic attack.

[Elderflower14]

Just got in what I was told is an almost brand new lift on my own at the station (huge suitcase in tow!) I really thought it wasn't moving as it was so slow. Then I thought it had got stuck between the floors.... Was then going into meltdown when it went ping and the door opened.
I don't know what's worse that lift or the ones like the one I had in the hotel in Rome which shook and rattled!

Just me?

Not just you. I have a phobia of lifts. My absolute biggest worst nightmare is being trapped in one. I struggle to even walk past them (what if someone pushes me in!?)...

I hate them. I’ve got better since having children as I need use them with the pushchair. I’m always relieved when the doors open, I feel like a weight has been lifted off my shoulders. I hate public loos that go from floor to ceiling with a concealed lock too. If they are small enough I put everything I own and my foot against the door instead of lock it.

Its not just you. The worst ones have those folding cage doors where you can see the wall moving, they give me vertigo and I'm paranoid I'll fall into the wall.

Me too! Definitely not just you.
Major phobia. Hate the ones where it takes ages for the door to open....

My son has a huge fear of lifts (and toilets and sleeping and vomiting and leaving the house-everything!) we had to get in one at the train station, I just couldn’t get our cases up the stairs and we were running late. It was seconds but he completely freaked, started screaming and banging his head against the door. Never again will I make him get in a lift!

Me too. And Binsky, I also hate floor to ceiling public toilets with dodgy locks - which unfortunately seem to be getting more common.

I'm not too bad with lifts but DH had a panic attack in one once when it got stuck - it was a Uni open day he had gone to with DS and he was in it with 6 strangers. No one responded when the alarm button was pushed. Thanfully it had only stuck a few inches below the floor level and they managed to prize the doors open and climb out. DS didn't choose that Uni .
Binsky I too have a fear of those sorts of toilet cubicles. I got stuck in a toilet at an airport on a school trip once when I was 14. Thankfully I was able to climb out over the top as it wasn't a floor to ceiling type but ever since then I have a fear of getting stuck in any cubicle and there would be no escaping the one with the full length walls/doors!

I won't go in one unless I can avoid it. The ones at work judder, and one feel from one floor to another, recently.

Fell

I don't mind ordinary ones, but the glass front ones make me feel sick.

I hate lifts too.

I can’t do lifts either. I was stuck in one once at 7 months pregnant and a two year old. Then I was stuck in one briefly when DH was with me.

I can sometimes use a lift if it’s a glass one, so someone would know if it stopped between floors. I can’t go to Covent Garden because there are way too many stairs to climb.

No I really hate lifts as well. I try to choose low rise hotels on holiday and will walk up flights of stairs. Even in multi story car parks I won't use the lifts.

Our holiday in Vegas was a nightmare as we were on the 27th floor.

So glad it's not just me!!

Not you. I've walked ten flights of stairs when we were on honeymoon and had a suite. The hotel offered to move us to a lower floor but I was happy out. I got stuck in a lift in 2001 and have been in one twice since both times in hospital and either half asleep from an anaesthetic or after having had an epidural when the nurse refused my suggestion I bum it down the flight of stairs from delivery to my room.

Mmmm yup, wouldn’t say I was phobic but I’m not that keen and will always try to avoid getting in a lift alone. At Waitrose the car park is a floor up from the shop and I hate that lift so much that I struggle up the stairs carrying six bags of shopping rather than get in the lift (which seems to be out of order half the time anyway, which is not reassuring...).

@Gigoratta 😲.... That would be my idea of pure panic.
I've just looked at my memories on FB. It's ten years ago today that I took my Ds2 on the Tower of Terror at DLP. It drops you 15 floors in a lift!!! DS called me a wimp afterwards!! 😂 😂 😂 😂 😂

Since having to use them all the time with pushchair has made me wary of them. I'm just about ok when it's just me and child but when 10 huge large slow moving people suddenly cram on I think... If this gets stuck I'm going to be stuck in here with all of them and I have to dive out.

I don’t have a phobia of lifts as such but I am claustrophobic. I won’t go in tiny little lifts even on my own.

I hate lifts too... with a passion.

Had therapy earlier this year for cleithrophobia so am trying to force myself to use them to keep the momentum up. I'm much better than I was but will never feel at ease in a lift.

I'm OK with lifts I can see out of. But my breathing starts going as soon as I get in one that I can't see out of. Which is a total pita when out with pushchair.
You are not alone.