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Going to jump aboard the fear of heights train @Ashley @drahkon and @Cube are on, but throughout my life it's manifested itself in different ways to the point I think it ties into the idea of overcoming it a good bit. Look, forever and always, glass floors in tall buildings/structures/elevators (the sick bastards who design elevators like this have an ass-whooping waiting for them in hell I swear), total no-go for me -- I'm fairly sure? It's been a good while since I've been put in that position. And the stupidly big gaps you can look through between steps on some steep stairways, oof. Up until I was in my latter years of high school, though, it was horrible. Rock climbing, abseiling, Big Swing rides - hell, most types of rides involving heights - and big slides, you name it, put me in most situations and I just couldn't stand the idea of heights, maybe even more so if there were moving parts to whatever was going. Made things like the Pioneer Centre and PGL an absolute nightmare for me in primary school. But then, sometime towards the end of high school, that changed a good bit? I was big on architecture, and so if scaling a tall tower which might otherwise set off the fear before interested me enough, then the fear of heights just melted away. Similarly, we went on a trip to a rock climbing centre as part of DofE in my final year and I found out that I could climb to the top of a rock climbing wall without giving my fear of heights a second thought, whereas my friends who were adamant that they had a fear of heights just couldn't. Looking back, I think I put the changes down to a combination of gaining confidence at the time and going through enough things which were waaaaaaaay more stressful in high school/my personal life to the point I just didn't care enough to give it a second thought, might not be the healthiest way to overcome a fear, but hey, I think it mostly worked. Maybe that's something I look to push myself on and test some point this year? These days, I think it mainly manifests when looking straight down from a great height and that feeling of vertigo kicks on which brings on the fear and anxiety. As a quick aside, The Last of Us Part II probably has my favourite depiction of said feeling in any media, just because of how accurately it conveys the distorting feeling of vertigo a fear of heights can bring on to non-height-fearing people. -
I'm scared of needles and heights. Although my heights fear is odd. Standing on mountains and cliffs is fine, it's just man-made ones. Even looking down while behind a window is scary. The escalator in the science museum in London was terrifying. -
Very happy that I can deal with needles easily. I donate blood plasma every week and that would be a nightmare if I was afraid of needles I'm afraid of heights. It's not crippling but I notice it quite a bit. I was on the Dom Tower of Utrecht a few weeks ago: 112 metres. Looking into the distance was fine, but looking down...phew, I got very anxious. Also don't like tight spaces. Not sure if it's a phobia but even the thought being in one makes my heart race. -
Like you wouldn't believe! Still got the jab though, better then the alternative. -
Covid must have been rough for you! I had to get several in my toes when I was younger. Anything since then has felt like nothing.
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