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Feel the fear and.. Oh screw it anyway!

Ninjas make great pets

19:40 / 25.04.03

Okay you lot know a lot about a lot.. scary amounts if you ask me (need I mention Primes head here?).

gotta a question for ya. would help a lot.

Phobias. Fear of heights (got stuck three quarter way up a mountain and had to go 2 hours out of route to get down a gentler side)
and planes (damnfuckingplanes) gotten to the stage that being in the airport gives me sharp headache ad the need to leave asap.
ANy suggestions for getting rid of this? Ive tried hypno, kinda worked the first time (along with some happy chemicals) but it aint an answer.

really appreciate thoughts on this..

Elijah, Freelance Rabbi

20:37 / 25.04.03

honestly, i kicked my fear of heights do rock clibming, i was to embarassed to tell my friends i was afraid, so i went along, after 2 or 3 trips im pretty ok with heights

hell, combine both and skydive, airplanes and heights in one fear resolving package

Murray Hamhandler

21:43 / 25.04.03

My fear of heights has diminished slightly for pretty much the same reasons. I worked at a job for four years that required me to be working on rickety girders 30+ feet up in the air. Then I was drug on a rollercoaster for the first time last year...and wound up riding on about ten more voluntarily. The fear still isn't gone completely (It's actually a more complex fear of slipping and being able to catch myself, but suffering from sweaty palms as a result of the fear and dropping to my death anyway. The thought of which almost always gives me sweaty palms and thus feeds my fear...), but it has abated somewhat from exposing myself to that which I fear.

Spatula Clarke

23:17 / 25.04.03

So are acrophobia and vertigo different beasts? It's almost entirely a physical thing with me - dizziness, loss of balance, nausea - and tends to happen not just when I'm actually up anywhere but when I'm looking at things - glancing up a stairwell, fr instance, or watching somebody else standing on something high...

Tryphena Absent

23:57 / 25.04.03

I get that dizziness, loss of balance, nausea when I'm walking down a flight of stairs. I have to hold on to something or someone and while it's got easier as I've gotten older I doubt I'll ever be entirely comfortable with them. Ladders or anything akin to them are worse though.

Shrug

05:11 / 26.04.03

I have a fear of cotton wool, (no really!). While not severe my reaction to its touch is like that of the sound of nails down a blackboard to others. And while watching Richard and Judy the other day I learned I was not alone. They recommended a procedure like acupuncture but without needles, tapping of pressure points combined with some sort of therapy. Did anyone else see this or know anything about this technique?

pointless and uncalled for

09:42 / 26.04.03

I don't think that there is any quick and easy answer to dealing with phobias and curing them is probably going to be even harder.

In my TV educated humble opinion the best way to begin dealing with a phobia is to engage in interactive therapy. It may prove to be costly and time consuming but the results may end up being worth it.

Ninjas make great pets

13:21 / 26.04.03

yep I do get the dizzy nausea thing too. went to the theatre recently and we were in the gods.. oh my oh my oh my..

hummm rock climbing.. Ive always wanted to try that. and it helped? I may just give it a go.

thanks very much for the replies.
Ill let you know how it goes.

anymore brain waves keep em coming. reckon this'll take a while to work out.

Saint Keggers

13:24 / 26.04.03

go skydiving...2 phobias cured for the price of one.

Ninjas make great pets

13:44 / 26.04.03

yes just let me sign up for that right now!

I believe I can go through the flying pigs diving school..

in a word.. kegboy.. are you CRAZY?! skydiving sheesh. the phoenix must learn to walk before it can fly.

gingerbop

13:46 / 26.04.03

This is wierd- i was gonna post a scared of heights thing the other day, but forgot about it.

Skydiving may help, but would you be able to get in the plane, never mind jump out of it?

I find that the dont look down thing is soo wrong- the other day i was cleaning a fairly big window (bout a metre sq) which is on the roof, and i was fine on the outside, standing on the roof, and i was fine inside on the stepladder, but as soon as i looked up on the inside to clean it, i absolutely kacked it and felt reeaally dizzy. Is this vertigo? Coz i know its getting dizzy as opposed toa fear, but it seemed kinda selective (only when looking up).

Ninjas make great pets

13:53 / 26.04.03

yeah thats sound kinda vertigo to me. These things can be selective, like someone only getting travel sick if they face the back of the bus.

funny thing. If im drunk or tired or otherwise, heights dont bother me at all. maybe I should just spend all my time in these states? may this be the costly time consuming method that harry p had in mind

gingerbop

13:56 / 26.04.03

Oh kack... Vertigos a BAD BAD thing.. I *like* to stand on top of lots of people. Better never get dizzy then.

Saint Keggers

14:33 / 26.04.03

Oddly enough I only have a fear of heights if Im over water... I think im going to find a tall ladder with diving board and jump into a glass of water just like bugs bunny used to do.

Thumbninja: maybe try to slowly increase your exposure... hang around at airports, watch the aircraft take off... look out the windows of tall buildings...

Suedey! SHOT FOR MEAT!

23:48 / 26.04.03

I'm scared of heights. But I think probably that's pretty natural. I mean, I think people should be afraid of heights really.

I think unless we suddenly start flying, it's a wholly natural response. And unless you really want to be a skydiver, or are looking to have a job involving heights then...

Maybe I only think that so I can say I'm not a wuss.

waxy dan

07:46 / 29.04.03

These things can be selective, like someone only getting travel sick if they face the back of the bus
I used to get that a lot. It's not a psychological thing, it's got to do with the perception of motion in a physical sense.

I'd have to agree with Kegboy: maybe try to slowly increase your exposure
My fear of water got a good kicking when I went white water rafting. It was hardly scuba-diving, but it did the job pretty well.

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