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With how elevators are engineered these days, it would be difficult to cause one to fall even deliberately. Multiple simultaneous system failures would be required that aren't fragile to begin with. Not sure about the particulars of your anxiety, but that one you might find some relief from through research.
You can also see tests of them, which gets performed on each and everyone before certification, where they are loaded to their max weight and are allowed to slam into the buffers at the bottom. It would be uncomfortable, but survivable.
Yeah - elevators don't cause anything close to the fear that amusement park rides do (and especially traveling ones), and I presume for that reason - because I know they have an array of safeguards. Notably old or sketchy ones can make me nervous, but I'm usually okay in new and obviously well-maintained ones.
But overall I still don't like them much. and generally just default to the stairs anyway. There's no chance that they're going to trigger anything like that, and it's good for me besides.