What cure is there for claustrophobia?

Answer 1

I am NO expert, but I think I would try to make a smaller space super comfortable. Don't jump from a huge room to a closet, but maybe work your way down . If a room is filled with lots of things you love and appeals to you, you may be able to spend time in it. Also, maybe something like yoga that would let you focus your mind on something else like your breathing would help to calm you down. Good luck.

I help people with phobias. It is not the closed space that makes you scared but yourself thinking about it! I suppose you get scared of being in a closed space even without you being inside a closed space?!

You need to pay attention to the pictures in your head and what you imagine. These pictures and voices in your head is what makes you scared. In your head you can push these pictures away, remove the colour and sounds. Imagine you are erasing them in your head. This will make it feel at least slightly better.

A hypnotherapist should be able to help you in one or two sessions

From

http://www.birminghamhypnotherapyclinic.com

Answer 2

Cognitive therapy is the most common way to cure someone with claustrophobia which decreases anxiety and convinces the patients the positive spaces such as using an elevator to get to a floor quicker. In vivo exposure is another treatment used which makes the patients face smaller spaces starting with something mild and working its way to a MRI machine until their fear is eliminated, 75 percent of patients have been cured using this method.

Answer 3

well... it can kinda be cured if you go in small places a lot and you realize there is nothing to not like about it then you are cured.

Answer 4

you could use therapy or even medication