Fear of Heights is a lot more common than you may think. It not about the daredevil stuff of abseiling off the side of a building, or jumping out of a plane, those things are not normal. This is about the everyday anxiety of going up to the top floor of a building, riding the escalator in a shopping centre, the ones with the clear glass sides, which go all the way up through the open atrium. It is about looking up at a building from the ground and feeling uneasy, very uneasy. It is about the stepladder to reach the shelf at home, or merely the thought of being up high and looking out.
The secret to resolving this has nothing to do with analysing the whys and the wherefore of how these feelings came about. The secret to resolving this is to change the pattern of thinking and to change the way a client pictures and imagines the problem situation, which then changes the emotional response.
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