With things slowly opening up again, I thought it might be time to write about an anxiety I’ve had the opportunity to forget about over the last few months.
I have an acute fear of escalators. Specifically, down escalators. It’s the main reason why I couldn’t move to London last year, even when I wanted to.
There is no “official” phobia name for escalator anxiety, although it has been informally (and not exactly imaginatively) titled “escalaphobia” online.
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