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My irrational fear of heights would cause me paralysis on these stairs. It happened in a train station that had plexiglass walls around the stairs. It felt too open and I crouched uncontrollable fear as my partner tried to console me. A cop came to see what was wrong and d that was the thing that motivated me to push through and make it the rest of the way.
I feel you. I also have that fear, and one time we went to a local opera house that has very steep balconies. When you are walking down the stairs to your seat, it seriously feels like you can fall to your death if you wobble or trip. I needed my husband holding my hand and his constant reassurance just to make it to our seats. Didn’t get up the whole intermission and then high-tailed it out of there. Never again.
I walked out of a concert because we were at the top of those stairs in a huge arena. Just felt like I would fall forward out of my seat for no reason, which is completely ludicrous but that didn’t stop my unease. The seats sucked anyway.
I feel that way in some sports stadiums. Like... I can intellectually recognize that hundreds of thousands of people use these stairs without incident every year. But it does not feel that way in the moment.
I have to do a double-take every time I try to go on a boring, run of the mill down escalator. (I'm perfectly fine going up.) It's like I'm waiting for vertigo that never quite comes, just threatens.
The vertigo passes you and lands on me. It's been a problem lately.
It's not irrational at all. Falling from heights hurts. I'm afraid of being hurt (including from heights). It makes perfect sense.