Fear of trains the social norms of a realistic fear, this anxiety may be classified as a specific phobia about trains. "Campbell's Psychiatric Dictionary" puts fear of trains under the "vehicle phobia", together with fears of boats, airplanes, automobiles, and other forms of transportation. A 1913 short story "Terror" by Jun'ichirō Tanizaki is a first-person narrative of a young man suffering of the morbid fear of travel in trains and streetcars. Tanizaki uses the German word , "railroad sickness". Other travel-related anxieties include: Other transport-related disorders include: Fear of trains The fear of trains is anxiety and fear associated with trains, railways, and
Fear of falling from the police force after an incident which causes him to develop both acrophobia and vertigo. Early on in the film he faints while climbing a stepladder. There are numerous references throughout the film to fear of heights and falling, Fear of falling The fear of falling (FOF), also referred to as basophobia (or basiphobia), is a natural fear and is typical of most humans and mammals, in varying degrees of extremity. It differs from acrophobia (the fear of heights), although the two fears are closely related. The fear of falling encompasses the anxieties accompanying the sensation and the possibly