Help abnormal2004 with her abnormal fear! Please?
Heights. I know other people are afraid of heights too, but I doubt they have it to the degree I do. I don't like the examining table at my doctor's office, or even the beds in a Motel 6! I have a hard time even thinking about seeing pics on the web of people who are up high looking down on something. (A friend of mine sent me a page on acrophobia -- the fear of heights -- and there was a pic on there, I had to scroll past it as fast as I could; it terrified me.) They're cleaning the roof of a building across from the library (where I am accessing the 'net) and I can't stand to look up at them. It shakes me up too badly. Sadly, I don't know how to make myself better. It has really curbed my life in a lot of ways.
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I clicked on the link you gave and had to click right away again. It made me sick just looking at it and I get this fuzzy, falling feeling in my legs. Last summer, my husband coaxed me on top of the roof of our house to watch fireworks and as soon as I got up there, I started crying and wanted down. It took him over an hour to get me off the roof. I also have to have sedatives to fly, I can't jump into pools, I can't look up at highrises, when I'm downtown or even walk into them and I can't watch movies where they have shots of heights, period.
I've been through therapy for this, (oddly enough on the 4th floor of an 8th story building...). My phobia had much to do with an incident where I was first on scene to a woman who was thrown out of a 18th story window. My therapist said that phobias are an overexaggerated response to fear or stress sometimes in response to a traumatic memory, as in my case, or a childhood memory. Can you think of anything that might have started this? Breathing exercises can help if you're trying to avoid a panic. Therapy, just talking to someone about it, DID help, b/c before I was afraid of the height of my sofa! Otherwise, I have a lot of Xanax on hand for my flights home, but I can sit on my sofa again.
You need to see a therapist who specializes in this sort of thing. I am also afraid of heights, spiders, escalators, etc., but not to the point of it dictating my life. When a fear begins to do that, it is time to see a specialist.
Wow. What do you think lead to this fear? Did you fall off of something when you were little?
The picture is certainly a daunting view... I think you'll have to either face your fear. Even if little by little. Just go up in a building and look down. Or, get some pro help.
Personally I have always faced my fears, it's cheaper.
Standing on a chair to change a light bulb is about as sad as my condition gets, I refuse to go up and down ladders climb on roof tops, or go near the edge of any place high off the ground but pictures don't scare me at all. Try hypnosis?
i believe you may have one of the worst cares of your psycosis, and the only advise i can give to you would might accually give you a heart attack, so if you have health issues such as obesity, heart problems, i would even venture to say heart problems in your family history.DO NOT DO THIS... but if your fit and really want to here would be my cure for you.
in most cases i would start you off low. balancing on a 2x4 sitting on the ground and working my way up... but since your case is so extreme taking the low to high would take your entire lifetime to achieve any results, if anything notable at all. so the first thing you need to do is bungee jump... its safe, the engineers are professional and know the job. YOU WONT GET HURT ... after that then go low to high, the reason that you have to do that first is because if you dont you wont step up the hieght of your balancing beam , and step it up only 2-3 inches a week , walk your beam 3 times a day. during this i want you to take daily walks around your hood, downtown, or if your feeling really daring the local playground, i want you to climb on things and jump off , start with the curb on the side walk , move onto a bench, jump jump jump. get higher and higher... GOOD LUCK!!!
Anytime that you feel like your getting scarred of hieghts youve already been comfortable with , go bungee jump again .
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I clicked on the link you gave and had to click right away again. It made me sick just looking at it and I get this fuzzy, falling feeling in my legs. Last summer, my husband coaxed me on top of the roof of our house to watch fireworks and as soon as I got up there, I started crying and wanted down. It took him over an hour to get me off the roof. I also have to have sedatives to fly, I can't jump into pools, I can't look up at highrises, when I'm downtown or even walk into them and I can't watch movies where they have shots of heights, period.
I've been through therapy for this, (oddly enough on the 4th floor of an 8th story building...). My phobia had much to do with an incident where I was first on scene to a woman who was thrown out of a 18th story window. My therapist said that phobias are an overexaggerated response to fear or stress sometimes in response to a traumatic memory, as in my case, or a childhood memory. Can you think of anything that might have started this? Breathing exercises can help if you're trying to avoid a panic. Therapy, just talking to someone about it, DID help, b/c before I was afraid of the height of my sofa! Otherwise, I have a lot of Xanax on hand for my flights home, but I can sit on my sofa again.
You need to see a therapist who specializes in this sort of thing. I am also afraid of heights, spiders, escalators, etc., but not to the point of it dictating my life. When a fear begins to do that, it is time to see a specialist.
Wow. What do you think lead to this fear? Did you fall off of something when you were little?
The picture is certainly a daunting view... I think you'll have to either face your fear. Even if little by little. Just go up in a building and look down. Or, get some pro help.
Personally I have always faced my fears, it's cheaper.
Standing on a chair to change a light bulb is about as sad as my condition gets, I refuse to go up and down ladders climb on roof tops, or go near the edge of any place high off the ground but pictures don't scare me at all. Try hypnosis?
i believe you may have one of the worst cares of your psycosis, and the only advise i can give to you would might accually give you a heart attack, so if you have health issues such as obesity, heart problems, i would even venture to say heart problems in your family history.DO NOT DO THIS... but if your fit and really want to here would be my cure for you.
in most cases i would start you off low. balancing on a 2x4 sitting on the ground and working my way up... but since your case is so extreme taking the low to high would take your entire lifetime to achieve any results, if anything notable at all. so the first thing you need to do is bungee jump... its safe, the engineers are professional and know the job. YOU WONT GET HURT ... after that then go low to high, the reason that you have to do that first is because if you dont you wont step up the hieght of your balancing beam , and step it up only 2-3 inches a week , walk your beam 3 times a day. during this i want you to take daily walks around your hood, downtown, or if your feeling really daring the local playground, i want you to climb on things and jump off , start with the curb on the side walk , move onto a bench, jump jump jump. get higher and higher... GOOD LUCK!!!
Anytime that you feel like your getting scarred of hieghts youve already been comfortable with , go bungee jump again .
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