This is for example the case when you develop a panic attack simply because you are in an elevator or other closed space, especially if you are afraid of heights or suffer from claustrophobia. For the former, if an individual is in an elevator and realizes that they are on the fiftieth floor of a building, they can easily become terrified and even develop panic attacks fearing that the building may collapse leading to their death. If this happens, you may start shaking and clinging to solid objects in the room in an attempt to make sure that a solid structure is protecting you, and not simply the glass on the walls. Another symptom is using all efforts to ensure that one does not encounter the object or situation that causes the phobia (American Psychiatric Association, 2015). This may consist, for example, of avoiding at all costs an airport where an individual suffers from aviophobia. If you suffer from agrizoophobia, you will try as much as possible to avoid contact with an environment that hosts animals. Such an individual will always come up with valid excuses as to why it is a hundred times better to go swimming in a pool than to visit a zoo. All this in an effort to ensure that one is as far away as possible