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She longed to do something active, to make an exertion, and struggle out of all this assailing strangeness. Like one attacked in a tunnel by claustrophobia, she had an impulse to dash open doors and windows, to burst arching, solid walls, and to be elsewhere. At first she carefully concealed her condition from Susan Fleet, but when three days had gone by, and no word came from Mrs.
It was curious, this instinctive aversion she felt to being shut in by trees especially; a kind of claustrophobia almost; probably due, as has been said, to the days in India when the trees took her husband off and surrounded him with dangers. In those weeks of solitude the feeling had matured. She had fought it in her fashion, but never conquered it.
"Someone's going to get galloping claustrophobia before it's over, anyway," said Multhaus morosely as he followed Mike down the hallway in the direction from which Snookums had come. "Darkness and stuffy air touch off that sort of thing." "Who's Officer of the Watch tonight?" Mike wanted to know. "Ensign Vaneski, I think. His name was on the roster, as I remember."
He may have suffered from agoraphobia." "What is that?" asked Barrant. "The dread of open spaces." "I have heard of claustrophobia the dread of closed spaces but not of this." "It is common enough an absurd but insurmountable aversion to open spaces. The victims are oppressed by a terrible anxiety when crossing a field.
Suckling also mentions a young woman brought to him at Queen's Hospital who had a great fear of death on getting into a tram car, and was seized with palpitation and trembling on merely seeing the car. This patient had been in an asylum. The case was possibly due more to fear of an accident than to true claustrophobia.
But every little while he went through a period of acute torture; he had a wild desire to break out of his prison, to be on the ground in Egypt, to go at the job of unmasking Britt as only a man vitally interested in the task could go at it! Sometimes his frenzy reached such a height that it resembled the affliction that pathologists call claustrophobia.
He had felt that profound agitation which psychologists call "claustrophobia," or the fear of enclosed spaces. For a long time he wandered about, absorbed in vacillations that had neither name nor plan. He hardly knew himself.
Toward the end of the third day, the biologist reported air, water and gravity well within tolerable limits, and Captain Vorongil issued permission for anyone who liked, to go outside and have a look around. Bart had a sort of ship-induced claustrophobia. It was good to feel solid ground under his feet and the rays of a sun, even a green sun, on his back.
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