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I've felt this a few times, quite a strange thing.
feeling of wanting to jump from heights?
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Of course urges like these are natural, how the hell could they occurr if they weren't natural?
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Explain why so many people have the urge and don't act on it then if its tosh. I'm well aware of this subject. Having been seeing a girl 6 years with ocd. You learn about these things when facing extremes. I've learnt about compulsive behaviour, what's natural and what's not. I love when someone who's experienced nothing to do with the subject at hand comes in to discredit things based not on his knowledge on the matter, but lack of it.
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When I was about 14 in school holidays me and my mates found a slipper factory that had closed down..... well outside they had two huge skips (Where talking about 6 times larger and deeper than normal skips) it was full of soft slipper off cuts so all soft material they were stood next to id say what about 30ft - 40ft wall which had steps to the upper level carpark area....
We spent almost a full day going up these steps and jumping into the skips - a huge drop but you could not miss the skips and the soft landing was awsome, it was about
8ft from the lip of the skip to the floor so you had to dangle at arms reach then drop to the floor afterwards..... we must have done 50 or so jumps each.
This is only time i have felt safe to jump from this hight even jumping into the sea at hight it would hurt so never did....
Sadly after a week or so the skips where removed
Id say us humans would only risk jumping from a height if we knew it would be pain free landing.... anybody that seriously thought about doing so not taking into account the PAIN is crazy even those that overcome fear of falling or jumping from high up still consider there own self being....
Suicidal thoughts are a foot here I'd say either that for Drugs or Booze
We spent almost a full day going up these steps and jumping into the skips - a huge drop but you could not miss the skips and the soft landing was awsome, it was about
8ft from the lip of the skip to the floor so you had to dangle at arms reach then drop to the floor afterwards..... we must have done 50 or so jumps each.
This is only time i have felt safe to jump from this hight even jumping into the sea at hight it would hurt so never did....
Sadly after a week or so the skips where removed
Id say us humans would only risk jumping from a height if we knew it would be pain free landing.... anybody that seriously thought about doing so not taking into account the PAIN is crazy even those that overcome fear of falling or jumping from high up still consider there own self being....
Suicidal thoughts are a foot here I'd say either that for Drugs or Booze
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You are faulty goods and you subconsciously know it. The instinct is there to remove yourself from your family gene pool. I take it you have siblings?
Pretty sure that most of you are confusing the urge to jump with the curiosity of what would happen if you jump.
I have never had the urge to jump off a bridge or jump in front of a train but I have thought about it so far as "if I was immune to pain/death".
Your friend who said he was 50/50 on doing it is just looking for attention and being a ****. He would be long dead by now if he was 50/50 about jumping off cliffs, balconies and ledges.
I have never had the urge to jump off a bridge or jump in front of a train but I have thought about it so far as "if I was immune to pain/death".
Your friend who said he was 50/50 on doing it is just looking for attention and being a ****. He would be long dead by now if he was 50/50 about jumping off cliffs, balconies and ledges.
Id say people don't act on it cause its human nature to self preserve, not like your suggesting that we all have a mental ocd but some are better than others at stopping it
(but like you I dont have any sources to prove it, so hence I didnt post it). Your the one getting your back up about it without proving your right, and so far your only accurate source is a girl you were dating.
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The accurate source isnt the girl, its the books and the psychologist. And considering I'm posting from a blackberry pearl I'm not going off to search google for sources.
And my back isnt up, I'm just posting what I know, from sources with degrees, and authors who generally need to know what they're talking about to get published.
Which makes what i'm saying far from tosh surely
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aww you got there first
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Get that a lot.
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@ChronicC I just remembered something called "Intrusive thoughts" I'm pretty sure if you google it, You'll get some good hits. It was in one of the books, and it went into great detail, about how these things are natural for everyone, but hard to dismiss when you have OCD and ADHD. Pretty much what i said earlier, So hopefully there's a hit on google
Wikipedia just reminded me Vertigo is just the feeling of spinning when you're not (dizzy), the fear of heights is apparently Acrophobia.
Either way, I am generally cool with heights as long as I feel safe (i.e. with a nice fence or the harness on a rollercoaster), but like many others, shy away from a sheer drop.
My mum is scared of heights; she wouldn't come up the Eiffel Tower because she was convinced panic would take over, and drive her into trying to jump off.