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The man who has the space phobia is quite unable to cross an open space unless he is supported or, at the very least, accompanied. Claustrophobia is the malady of those who have a horror of close quarters from which they can not easily make their escape. Writers' cramp is nothing in the world but one of these exaggerated nervous terrors.
So, I imagine, a Canadian would feel our woods and fields heavy with the past and the invisible, and suffer claustrophobia in an English countryside beneath the dreadful pressure of immortals. For his own forests and wild places are windswept and empty. That is their charm, and their terror.
That gives me the idea of always of long, long miles and miles without a turn or a stop. I want to think every day, every hour, that what I am doing can't go on mustchange. It suffocates me to think otherwise. I want to jump out, to scream." Then she gave that laugh that seldom failed to come to her relief, and said: "It's a sort of claustrophobia isn't that the word? on a universal scale.
Gorodoichze mentions a case of claustrophobia in a woman of thirty-eight, in whose family there was a history of hereditary insanity. Ball speaks of a case in a woman who was overcome with terror half way in the ascension of the Tour Saint-Jacques, when she believed the door below was closed.
The phobias are so closely allied to hypochondria that it will not be out of place to discuss them here. A phobia is an insistent and engrossing fear, without adequate cause as judged by ordinary standards. The sufferer from agoraphobia cannot bring himself to cross alone an open field or square. The sufferer from claustrophobia will invent any excuse to avoid an elevator or the theatre.
Bosengate looked round to where, at the head of the table, Gentleman Fox sat, in defensive gentility and the little white piping to his waistcoat saying blandly: "I shall be happy to take the sense of the jury." There was a short silence, then the chemist murmured: "I should say he must have what they call claustrophobia." "Clauster fiddlesticks! The feller's a shirker, that's all.
In a medical journal there was recently recounted the case of an officer of the R.A.M.C. who all his life had suffered from claustrophobia the fear of being shut up in a closed space. By skilful questioning, the remembrance of a terrifying incident in his childhood was regained.
Occasionally some accident in youth has led to an aversion to traversing large sheets of water, and there have been instances in which persons who have fallen into the water in childhood have all their lives had a terror of crossing bridges. Claustrophobia is the antithesis of agoraphobia.
"Not for a shoestring crowd like us. We look too unsubstantial." "Okay, Frank have that part your way. I believe there still is a good chance we will go. I want to go. But I get to thinking. Out There is like being buried in millions of miles of nothing that you can breathe. Can a guy stand it? You hear stories about going loopy from claustrophobia and stuff.
Hunger does not now drive people in companies from their homes and pour them into other lands, although it is true that any threat which excites the old hunger-fear tends to arouse the war spirit and to stir the migratory impulse; and a deep sensitiveness to climatic conditions and a claustrophobia of peoples have remained long after the need of land urged as the main cause of war, and we hear war justified on the ground that crowded peoples require more land.
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