Phobia or Fear of Heights

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Fear of Heights

We are all born with are of sudden loud noises and of height, any fear of heights is actually a fear of falling.

Other people consider that you are not born with a phobia – and that it’s a learned response. A learned response which has by situations in the past, of which almost always have a root cause, which you then react to when confronted by the phobic stimulus. With phobias even the anticipation, of thoughts or by thinking of the situation will often be enough to provoke the reaction. The person will then experience feelings, reaction and responses of anxiety, fear, panic and panic attacks.

Using hypnotherapy, NLP, positive psychology and EFT, I can re-programme your thoughts, change your associations and replace them with new, more appropriate feelings, reaction, behaviours, emotions and thoughts.
 

Etymology and Meaning

The word Phobia itself is derived from the Greek word Phobos meaning extreme fear and flight. The ancient Greek God, Phobos was believed to be able to reduce the enemies of the Greeks to a state of terror, making victory in battle more inevitable.

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Acrophobia, the fear of heights describes an intense fear of heights that can cause significant anxiety and panic. Some research Trusted Source suggests acrophobia may be one of the most common phobias.

It’s not unusual to feel some discomfort in high places. For example, you might feel dizzy or nervous when looking down from the top floor of a skyscraper. But these feelings may not cause panic or prompt you to avoid heights altogether.

If you have acrophobia, even thinking about crossing a bridge or seeing a photograph of a mountain and surrounding valley may trigger fear and anxiety. This distress is generally strong enough to affect your daily life.

Read on to learn more about acrophobia, including how to overcome it.

What are the symptoms?

The main symptom of acrophobia is an intense fear of heights marked by panic and anxiety. For some people, extreme heights triggers this fear. Others may fear any kind of height, including small stepladders or stools.

This can lead to a range of physical and psychological symptoms.

Physical symptoms of acrophobia include:

increased sweating, chest pain or tightness, and increased heartbeat at the sight or thought of high places

feeling sick or lightheaded when you see or think about heights

shaking and trembling when faced with heights

feeling dizzy or like you’re falling or losing your balance when you look up at a high place or down from a height

going out of your way to avoid heights, even if it makes daily life more difficult

Psychological symptoms can include:

experiencing panic when seeing high places or thinking about having to go up to a high place

having extreme fear of being trapped somewhere high up

experiencing extreme anxiety and fear when you have to climb stairs, look out a window, or drive along an overpass

worrying excessively about encountering heights in the future

What causes it?

Acrophobia sometimes develops in response to a traumatic experience involving heights, such as:

falling from a high place

watching someone else fall from a high place

having a panic attack or other negative experience while in a high place

But phobias, including acrophobia, can also develop without a known cause. In these cases, genetics or environmental factors may play a role.

For example, you may be more likely to have acrophobia if someone else in your family does. Or you learned to fear heights from watching the behavior of your caregivers as a child.

Evolved navigation theory

Something called evolved navigation theory may also explain why some people develop acrophobia.

According to this theory, certain human processes, including perception of height, have adapted through natural selection. Perceiving something as being taller than it actually is can reduce your risk for dangerous falls, increasing the likelihood that you’ll live to thus reproduce.