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Is anybody else as afraid of heights as I am?

Poodlepet2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 15:58:36 GMT

I am watching The Today Show and they were just showing the wires that Nic Wallenda will be on tonight: I got light headed and panicky....I also get that way in Imax theaters-especially if soaring heights are involved. Needless to say, I have zero aspirations to see the Grand Canyon, and one of the worst experiences of my life was taking a "scenic" elevator to the Rainbow Room in NYC. It was for a party, and let me tell you I got nicely inebriated in preparation for the trip down. Is anybody else out there as phobic as I am? I have no desire to change-I am perfectly fine with avoidance! Poodlepet

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Snik — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:01:49 GMT

Oh, yeah.. hate heights...

I am so short, I have a fear of falling off curbs!

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loveschocolate — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:05:55 GMT

I am also afraid of heights. Most people love roller coasters. They are one of my worst nightmares.

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LilacTree — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:06:27 GMT

Terrified.

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MaggieToo — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:16:02 GMT

I don't even like steps that have no back on them. (Like some apartment stairs).

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marmot24 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:32:23 GMT

Absolutely terrified. Our mall has an open 2nd floor with railing & I have to walk right up against the store fronts to avoid it. When I see children looking over the rail it gives me chills.

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Poodlepet2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:45:02 GMT

Margot, I am the same way-This is stupid, but I can't walk on piers if they are open-a source of a real problem if your DH boats....the crazy thing is, most piers I have been on are only 2-3 ft above water and I can swim....some malls make me agoraphobia, and escalators???? I always make sure I can find the elevators. Poodlepet

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bells4me — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:51:07 GMT

I have a fear of heights & won't even get on a stepladder. Once, years ago I climbed on our roof & ended up there for hours, afraid to come down. No fear of piers though.

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gidgetgh — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:52:01 GMT

I have a real problem with heights and I think most of it is because I suffer from Vertigo.

I even have a problem with it when watching tv shows and movies, etc. if they do a panoramic high sweeping shot or run over to the side of a roof on a tall building, etc. I get that swaying feeling.

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MyBoyRusty — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 16:53:10 GMT

Poodletpet I don't do escalators or high stairs because my legs start getting weak and shaky and I'm very afraid of high places.

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hennypenny — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:06:47 GMT

I hate heights!

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colliegirls — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:08:22 GMT

Right there with you!!!

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Financialgrl — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:17:21 GMT

On 11/2/2014 loveschocolate said:
I am also afraid of heights. Most people love roller coasters. They are one of my worst nightmares.

Mine too. I've been asked what's the worst that could happen and it's happened here two or three times at parks this past summer. The coaster gets near the top and stops cold and the people have to get out and walk down the catwalks along the side. OMG I'd die!

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kittymomNC — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 17:24:13 GMT

Your post reminds me so much of some of my own experiences! I get tingles up my spine if I look out the window from an office 10 floors up, even with some views of things on TV the same thing happens. I don't like escalators or elevators. I've had a problem with heights most of my life. I drove over the Chesapeake Bay Bridge many times when I was younger, but I can't do that 200 foot above the water span now (only if someone else is driving). As you said, I had to be slightly inebriated to allow someone to get me on the outside elevator to go up to the revolving restaurant at the top of Peachtree Plaza in Atlanta a number of years ago - I stood facing the wall. But after imbibing a little (maybe a lot) more, I thoroughly enjoyed the ride down and the view of Atlanta at night!

Even though I'm so afraid of heights, I did manage to go up 1,100 feet in a hot air balloon when I was in my thirties and fly over a city ... the pilot was a hoot, and he even brought us down to the tops of trees telling us to grab hold and see if we could stop the balloon. Yeah, right!

There is a Youtube video I discovered quite by accident a few days ago, if anyone would be interested in it. It's called the Deadliest Hike in the World: Mount Huashan,China or "The Plank Road in the Sky".

It's on the side of a mountain in China at an elevation of 7,000 feet, and it's basically three board planks attached together to make a walkway on the side of a mountain and the drop is thousands of feet straight down. People attach themselves to a cable that's attached to the rock face of the mountain ... this is the most unreal thing I've ever seen in my life, and in my opinion, anyone who does it has to be totally nuts! It's safe to go to this video, I've watched it several times and my computer is fine, no viruses or anything.

I don't know how to put in a working link, but this is the address for your browser that will take you to it if you're interested. It is wild, and that's an understatement!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lIQrgUV8wAE&spfreload=1

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Poodlepet2 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:00:54 GMT

Kittymom, this is how bad I am-I don't think I could watch that video....there are times when I can watch "panaramic soaring" on television, then other times, it just sends me into full blown panic. If I had to deal with high bridges frequently, such as the George Washington in NYC, or the Anyway in Tampa, I would need to seek treatment-no question. Poodlepet

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kittymomNC — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 18:09:57 GMT

On 11/2/2014 Poodlepet said: Kittymom, this is how bad I am-I don't think I could watch that video....there are times when I can watch "panaramic soaring" on television, then other times, it just sends me into full blown panic. If I had to deal with high bridges frequently, such as the George Washington in NYC, or the Anyway in Tampa, I would need to seek treatment-no question. Poodlepet

I'm with you on that. About 20 years ago, I drove my car across the Chesapeake Bay Bridge following a friend on our way to Ocean City, MD for a vacation. A couple of days later I realized I couldn't drive back! The bridge authority would only take you across at certain times back then, but luckily my brother-in-law had a business on the Eastern Shore. We wound up taking my car and leaving it there (then we went back to the beach), my sister drove him to his office the next day, and then he drove my car back to their house. I was going to spend the night with them anyway on my way home, but all that because I couldn't drive myself back across that bridge!

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Clover29 — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:37:02 GMT

No, not heights as such. Edges. I am scared of high up edges. I could go in a plane, which is a great height, but it's all enclosed so it's OK. I don't like being on the edge of the roof of a skyscraper at all.

And I hate, hate, hate panoramic elevators. Stupidest idea ever.

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stevieb — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 19:47:18 GMT

Don't like heights at all, nor the vertigo that comes with them.

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Shorty2U — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 20:08:44 GMT

I am not afraid of heights, but my husband is. He wont go on a high ladder, he will never ever fly in a plane (plus his best friend was killed in a plane crash). I on the other hand think planes are safer than the highway and flew all the time when I was younger.

However, I am claustrophobic. I mainly hate elevators! I don't like MRI machines (which I go in regularly for my spine pics, and have gotten used to now. But they still don't thrill me).

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foundinlv — Sun, 02 Nov 2014 21:12:59 GMT

We've eaten at the revolving restaurant on the top of the Stratosphere and it was so much fun plus the views spectacular but you couldn't pay me to go on any of the rides on the roof.