Phobias?

[retepsnikrep]

Television Vertigo.

I don’t like heights. I understand vertigo now. I realise it is not just girly daftness and hereby apologise to all those I have maligned in the past when I did not suffer from it.

I’m afraid I’ve taken vertigo two steps further. Firstly, not only do I not like being at a height over about four feet, I don’t like looking at tall buildings, especially skyscrapers, or bridges. Not in real life, and not even on television. The Empire State Building is over one hundred stories high. Before it was built the Eiffel Tower was the highest thing in the world. I got vertigo, on the spot, looking up at the Eiffel Tower, never mind looking down from it. I was alright about a mile away. My visual vertigo is oddly relative to the proportions of the building. If a building is a mile high, and a mile deep and a mile wide, I wouldn’t worry too much. It is when the height exceeds the width that the trouble starts. The Post Office Tower and the ones in Canada and Moscow are deadly. The worst configuration is when they are wider at the top than the bottom. Their whole purpose seems to be just to afford a narrow passage for stairs or a lift, and a wider falling off platform somewhere near the clouds.

The second phase to which I have refined Vertigo, is to get it when I read about elevated situations, especially mountaineering. The word ‘overhang’ is fatal. Climbing a slope I can understand, going up vertically, I am not happy about, but the idea of hanging on like a fly is too much. Now non-voluptuous but attractive young women clad in little more than a chalk bag, sinew their way up mountains. They should be in the boudoir or boutique, leaving the mountains to goat-like people like Richard Bonnington.

Incidentally, I regard roller coasters as simulated suicide, and Bungee jumping as attempted suicide.

What's your Phobia?

Peter

[pantsonfire321@aol.com]

Water

[RedGlitter]

Tapeworms
Big, black ships or any big ships
Deep, black water
Weird, deformed plants
Claustrophobia

[pantsonfire321@aol.com]

Cockroaches

MOTHS flapping /flying around my head.

There are instances when height is a scary thing. Like when I was in a friend's loft conversion where the windows went to floor level - I felt very anxious and had a strong urge to crouch down!

When I was pregnant I couldn't/wouldn't walk underneath or over bridges.

[pantsonfire321@aol.com]

I don't do heights .

Horses

Beautiful majestic creatures but the scare the bujeezuz outta me since one ran over me when I was 3.

BUT! I am getting over the phobia slowly and by next year I hope to be able to ride one (maybe ) So far I can now drive past one without trying to crash the car. Stand next to a field with a horse in it without bursting into tears and I actually fed one an apple earlier this year and although I couldn't stop shaking for hours I survived.

step by step by step.......................

[pantsonfire321@aol.com]

Originally Posted by Wendybird

Horses

Beautiful majestic creatures but the scare the bujeezuz outta me since one ran over me when I was 3.

BUT! I am getting over the phobia slowly and by next year I hope to be able to ride one (maybe ) So far I can now drive past one without trying to crash the car. Stand next to a field with a horse in it without bursting into tears and I actually fed one an apple earlier this year and although I couldn't stop shaking for hours I survived.

step by step by step.......................

I know how you feel - i'm not scared as such ...just don't like getting to close to them . I once has a boyfriend who was a mounted cop and i used to go to the stables a lot (they were right near my house) but i've never felt all that comfortable around them .

Posting in the wrong forum.

Joking, just ignore me.