Phobia of Heights

[Azkanan]

Acrophobia, is it called? Anyway.




Simply looking at this image makes me panic. My heart beats, my hands sweat and I clutch my chair. Anybody else with Acrophobia getting this?

[burgingham]

Not as badly as you describe it, but yeah it makes me feel a little dizzy too.

In before juhubert...

[Garlicman]

I'm ok with this photo, but i really don't like to get close to the edge when on the cliff or the building roof.

[Azkanan]

I remember my father taking me to a big old nature-overgrown slagheap near us, quite steep. He stood on the edge and looked over a sheer drop. I had to get on my stomach and crawl, to take a look. Even that terrified me and I backed up nearly straight away.

I wonder why I have it so bad?

Edit;
Oh, and, I was <10 at that age, not like, 16 or something

Edit2;

In actuality, exception of the fact that there are no barriers and that the piece he is sitting on has rounded edges and thus nothing to hold onto if he falls and... Getting worked up. xD...

Its the fact that the photographer is actually standing on the blade of the windmill.

[Garlicman]

I remember my father taking me to a big old nature-overgrown slagheap near us, quite steep. He stood on the edge and looked over a sheer drop. I had to get on my stomach and crawl, to take a look. Even that terrified me and I backed up nearly straight away.

I wonder why I have it so bad?

Edit;
Oh, and, I was <10 at that age, not like, 16 or something

You can think of it as an over-developed form of self-preservation

[Sotsa]

yo he has a rope.

[Azkanan]

yo he has a rope.

I don't trust a piece of fabricated string.

I've seen how they're made - root and nettle. Trust it? I think not.

[Phizuol]

yo he has a rope.

What about the dude taking the photo?

[Azkanan]

yo he has a rope.

What about the dude taking the photo?

Obv. a Ninja.

[Winterbrass]

I can look at the photo because, intellectually, I know that there's no danger of me falling from that height. But yes, I can definitely sympathize - I dislike being more than six to ten feet off the ground and anything past that, I start to panic. My local hospital is multiple stories, 12 feet per story, each set back from the last, and they all have glass railings. Guess which side of the balcony that I avoid like the plague?