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Fear of Heights: When is "high" high enough?

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MystikMango

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I think there is a certain height associated with being affraid. What do you think?

To me anything above 30-40ft is high enough to not worry about falling and being ruined for life. Chances are anything above this height will enusre you do not live.
 
I am deathly afraid of heights in certain conditions.. I've noticed, unless I can move around safely and freely, I'm in trouble...

Scenario Where I'm Ok: On top of a 100 story building with a railing and stairs (and an elevator) down.

Scenario Where I'm Scared Out of my Mind: Anything higher than 3 Ladder Rungs

Bill
 
For me it's nothing to do with height and everything to do with security.

I climb regularly and the height doesn't even phaze me. I have climbed 50 foot faces, and I have rappelled 200 (that two HUNDRED) foot faces without being bothered. It's because I am tethered in and I trust my safety gear.

I don't mind being in an airplane, big or small, or the top of the ferris wheel.

In my work in community theater I have lugged lights up 25 feet extension ladders. This scares the piss out of me. My knees shake the whole time I'm working.

Yet in the catwalk above, while I am just as high, I have no concern.

Basically if I feel secured, I'm not afraid, no matter how high.
If I do not feel secured, I am afraid.

Ironically the 10 foot drop into the orchestra pit off the front of the stage has never concerned me, regardless of the lack of safety gear.
 
I've never been up higher than a tall building and thankfully I am not afraid of heights so looking down wasn't an issue. I've yet to fly so I don't know how that would be peering at the ground from thousands and thousands of feet up...
 
Originally posted by: Jzero
For me it's nothing to do with height and everything to do with security.

I climb regularly and the height doesn't even phaze me. I have climbed 50 foot faces, and I have rappelled 200 (that two HUNDRED) foot faces without being bothered. It's because I am tethered in and I trust my safety gear.

I don't mind being in an airplane, big or small, or the top of the ferris wheel.

In my work in community theater I have lugged lights up 25 feet extension ladders. This scares the piss out of me. My knees shake the whole time I'm working.

Yet in the catwalk above, while I am just as high, I have no concern.

Basically if I feel secured, I'm not afraid, no matter how high.
If I do not feel secured, I am afraid.

Ironically the 10 foot drop into the orchestra pit off the front of the stage has never concerned me, regardless of the lack of safety gear.
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that is exactly how i am. i used to climb also. being high does not faze me. LONG as i know im secure.

though with flying i hate takeing off and landing. once in the air i am fine. oddly i took flight training and it didnt bother me at all even when takeing off or landing.

Getting on the roof of the house sucks. My step-father owns a constuction company in Oregon. i used to have to help out. I hated climbing ladders. once on the building i am fine (no matter how flimsy it is). ladders scare the heck out of me.

 
Basically if I feel secured, I'm not afraid, no matter how high.
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I feel the same.. mostly. When I was in the Navy, I had to climb the ship's mast to work on the radar systems. We always had safety gear on, and I was never affraid, even climbing to the heightest platform that was about 180ft off the deck (which was another 40ft above the water), but was only 4ft in diameter.

One of our radars had a CCTV camera that always acted up. This thing was about 20" long, 8" square and weighed about 70lbs. I was always tasked with hauling the new one up, and the bad one down. This was about the only time I was ever affraid. You have to trust your safety equipment.
 
Like others have said, it depends on the situation. I can happily work on the roof of my house, where I'm sitting on the relatively steep slope. However, getting off the roof and back onto the ladder makes me summon all of my courage, sometimes with 15 or 20 minutes passing before I'm able to step back onto the ladder. But, once on the ladder again, I'm fine. (I've even hopped ladders along, while perched 15-20 feet up, rather than get down and move the ladder and climb back up)
 
I'm not really afraid of heights persay. I can stand on a ladder or go up in an airplane or on a tall building without being "afraid" but I get some kind of weird vertigo-like thing in certain situations. Mostly when I'm looking down into a wide open space like a canyon when there's only a railing or other small/nonexistant barrier.
 
Its strange how I've become affraid of heights, when I was younger it never bothered me, I remember going to the grand canyon on vacation and my father being scared to death to get even near an edge even when it had rails and I would make fun of him, now I'm the same damn way. Scares the hell out of me whenever I'm high enough up that I know I'll pretty much die or wish I did if I fell.
 
If I look down and realize that if I fall, i'm going to get hurt, then its high enough to give me fear. Doesn't matter how high. If I'm 20 feet up and there's deep enough water below me that I know I'm not going to get hurt, I'm not afraid. If I"m 20 feet up and there's concrete below me, I'm scared out of my mind.
 
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