Jake, who has a fear of enclosed spaces, decides to take the stairs.

I declined, telling him I had a fear of enclosed spaces.

Claustrophobia is often defined as "fear of small or tight spaces."

Ted mentioned he always had a fear of enclosed spaces like the kind he now hides in.

Claustrophobia is the persistent illogical fear of small spaces or physical restraint.

(Perhaps a fear of confined spaces would be good in a President.)

"Since then I've had panic disorder and agoraphobia, fear of open spaces," she said.

They'd discovered her fear of enclosed spaces and they were pleased.

If you have a fear of confined spaces (claustrophobia), tell your doctor before the exam.

She wondered suddenly whereby her old fear of open spaces when she was a girl had simply come from being so shortsighted?