As an engineer and scientist, I experienced a massive worsening of my latent claustrophobia disorder at just over 34 years of age. I had - as far as I can remember - never had a friendly relationship with confined spaces and elevators since I was about 14 years old, but bus and train rides as well as tight disco rooms (from 18 on, of course) or confinement in stadiums, cinemas and theaters did not bother me. My claustrophobia was not particularly...