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1 hour ago, nnm said:

Almost certainly. Find a therapist who specializes in anxiety and panic disorders. Not one that has that as part of their practice, but specializes in it. 
I have a good friend that’s a phd psychologist, university prof and practicing clinical psychologist. She helped me find the right person in ETX.  My friend tells me that anxiety and panic disorders (like my claustrophobia, and also acrophobia, agoraphobia, OCD, etc., etc.) is the one class of disorders with which her profession has the most success in treating. It’s already helped me significantly. Do it. 

As a psychologist, 100% cosign with this. Anxiety-related disorders (including phobias) can be treated really effectively. 

As for Christmas lighting, just forget lights and install Jellyfish lighting or the like. I don't have a fear of heights but why put yourself in a hazardous situation?

Also, badass that you were a firefighter. Major props. 

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On 3/31/2025 at 8:41 AM, honolulu horn said:

As a psychologist, 100% cosign with this. Anxiety-related disorders (including phobias) can be treated really effectively. 

As for Christmas lighting, just forget lights and install Jellyfish lighting or the like. I don't have a fear of heights but why put yourself in a hazardous situation?

Also, badass that you were a firefighter. Major props. 

As I've gotten older, I have also became fearful of heights. Not incident related, but just coming to the realization that I'm old enough that a fall from 10-12 feet isn't going to be like the old days where I would get ankle pain and just walk it off. It will now probably be broken bones, an ambulance ride, a few days in the hospital, and weeks, or months worth of pain. I don't even leapfrog over the side of a pickup bed onto the ground anymore. I go sit my butt down on the tailgate, and slide onto my feet, like a bitch.

CHIEF

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12 minutes ago, CHIEF said:

As I've gotten older, I have also became fearful of heights. Not incident related, but just coming to the realization that I'm old enough that a fall from 10-12 feet isn't going to be like the old days where I would get ankle pain and just walk it off. It will now probably be broken bones, an ambulance ride, a few days in the hospital, and weeks, or months worth of pain. I don't even leapfrog over the side of a pickup bed onto the ground anymore. I go sit my butt down on the tailgate, and slide onto my feet, like a bitch.

CHIEF

Exactly. Friend of mine just turned 40 and is in a walking boot for 4-6 weeks after walking off of a curb the wrong way. With age comes wisdom....and humiliation. 

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