Are You Scared Of Heights?

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I am ok walking up mountains and I enjoy it as long as I am not near the edge, but ladders... I am not exactly keen on ladders! I can do three or four rungs without it being a problem but beyond that and... Well. I can freeze. Difficult to go down again then!

Though I didn't want to, I have done rock climbing and absailing on a course I was once on, and I found it to be easier then ladders. The rock is solid. It feels solid. I can look at the rock. The hardest part is the going over the edge when absailing.Once over the edge and leaning back for stability (Leaning back is the opposite to what my instincts want to do!) it is ok, but I would not want to do great heights, and I would not do it unless I really had to, and then only a single rope span if that makes sense? What do they do if the drop is more then the length of the rope? I don't know? Uhmmm. I don't want to think about that! Haha.
It is ladders, climbing frames and thin walls. The things I can look straight down... These are the ones that scare me.
Absailing down a rock.. Well. The rock becomes the ground for my feet if that makes sense.

But I have only done it once. If it wasn't for others who were just as scared but they were physically shaking and I was saying "It is ok. If I can do it...." (I wanted to try to go first to get it over with and somehow outwardly I don't show fear or stress so much? I think it is because I mask it out?)

The problem is I do better doing scary things while on my own but things like that for safety need to be done with others.

Nope. Done it once. Would I ever do it again?

Ladders though... Uhmm. Not if I can help it! No thanks! (But I might challenge myself slightly as brother was on the foof re-slating it and there are two bits of rubble balancing in the gutters. He was supposed to remove. It looks do-able but I am not sure if I can do that height without freezing... Maybe if I keep going up and down at lower heights to slowly get used to it...
I need to be in the right mood. I am almost shaking thinking about it! Uhmm. But it is only just over twice my height... Uhmmm. Where's my brother?

Not scared of heights myself.

But I'm rather more wary of falling, sure.
Not the fall and distance itself, I trust my instincts not to fail me or to do my best to land less painfully.

It's hard to explain.
It's more about this controlled assurance over gravity and balance against my body -- closer to the sensation of fear of suddenly slipping from something slippery, than heights and falling.

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I have an irrational fear of heights although I can overcome it to a degree. I love walking in the mountains and even enjoy a bit of unroped scrambling but I never progressed very far when it came to technical climbing. The good thing about mountains in the UK is that you can get to almost any summit without it involving technical climbing except for a few places in the Cuillin on the Isle of Skye.

I also have a bit of an issue with ladders. Even when properly secured they feel a lot less safe than rocks. When I have to go up a ladder I have an unfortunate image that plays endlessly in my head where one of my feet slips through the ladder, I fall backwards, and am left dangling upside down with my foot trapped. Being a house owner though I still force myself to go up a ladder from time to time as I don't want to pay someone to do basic jobs like cleaning out gutters.

Yes.

Especially spiral stairs and stairs with stairwells (that big gap thing, like multi storey carparks have).

I think it's a dyspraxia thing cos my depth perception is bad.

And when I was 7, I fell from the top of a flight of stairs to the ground and cut my gum apart from my lip. I needed to go to the hospital and they gave me the stitches without anaesthetic as that made it easier.

No.

But it is one of the most common phobias.

This is going to sound strange having previously lived for 21 years on the 11th floor of a tower block- yes! I even get nervous watching roof top chases on the tv.

I’m scared of them if there are no fences to prevent me from falling.

I'm not keen on them but just about manage. My level or worry changes depending on the circumstances. If I'm at home I really dislike full sized ladders. If I'm in work I grudgingly have to deal with pretty much whatever they ask irrespective of height. Today I had to make a leap of faith on the top of a large duct to unhook a crane. The year before I was 5 stories up on a cherry picker cleaning a building. Cherry pickers are one of my most disliked heights. Imagine driving around a car you're not sitting in. Instead you're in a wobbly basket looking waaay down at the car your driving. It's weirdly disconcerting and doesn't get any easier years after getting the licence for it. Work ladders I'm ok with. They're permanantly fixed but you have a lot of them to go up.

Heights is a weird one, it's basically a fear of your own ability to balance. Like a mental insecurity of your own ability.

I did know someone a few years back who was mega afraid of heights and they challenged it by joining a rock climbing place in an old mill. I guess that's how you fix it.

I am not great with heights. That's probably my number 1 fear. It's a very specific fear though. I don't mind being at the top of a mountain or a tree. What I don't trust are very abrupt and man-made heights, like looking out of a building on a high floor or looking down an elevator shaft. Those seem like 0% chance of survival if I fell. At least with a mountainside or a tree I have a chance of grabbing onto something.

No, I don't mind them at all. I particularly like hiking and climbing.

As a child I wasnt that scared of heights, but it seems at some point my sense of danger kicked in and now they greatly unnerve me. lmao

My brother is scared of heights.

I have an intense fear of heights.

It depends on where I am, so no I do not have a sense of vertigo in me.