Pennylynn wrote:
I freeze up, unable to move or talk. I have actually passed out before reaching the 10th floor of an apartment building. Before 911, I used to fly all over the place..... loved to feel the take offs..... Now, if I can not drive, train, or boat to a place.... then it is off my list of travel destinations. Plus any relative living in a high-rise, if they want to visit with me, they know where I live. My logical mind rejects my fear as a mental illness and insists that I need to engage logic. But, it would seem that my unconscious mind holds the keys to my terror, my pons and the medulla, which control my body's automatic functions, like breathing, heart rate, blood pressure, swallowing, digestion, and blinking.
I freeze up, unable to move or talk. I have actua... (
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