Help overcoming a fear

Irrational fears are best conquered by simply exposing yourself to the thing you fear.

If you just keep at it eventually you will just work past it as has already been said.

I used to have a fear of heights until I started installing a city wide wireless network and ended up working on the roofs of high rise buildings frequently.

After about 6 months of doing this daily I was working away on the roof of a building installing an antenna on the side of the lift block. I did not realise just how little room there actually was on this roof until I looked back and it occurred to me that I was working on a roof, 22 floors up, 4 feet up a ladder 3 feet from the edge.

I could not work from on top of the block because there was a cell set-up there and you are not allowed to enter the perimeter with it active.

If I had fallen back I would not have even touched the roof it would have been non stop straight to the ground.

When I realised that and it did not freak me out that's when I realised I was past the fear.
 
WingZero30 said:
Btw Op, what does your work involve?

Are you usually alone?
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I work for the electricity board - so everywhere I go is in darkness (that's why I'm there!). The vast majority of the time I'm alone - and only in occasional telephone contact with my control room ~50 miles away.

I started off going out accompanied for ~2 years, but I've been doing it solo for around a year. It's becoming more of an issue now the dark nights are coming in - during the summer there is really only 4 hours of darkness here so I haven't been out in it much recently but from October it'll be much more likely.

I think one of my big fears is that if something did happen then nobody would know until someone in the control room realised I hadn't phoned for a while - but this could easily take a couple of hours depending on the task I am doing.
 
You're probably just as scary if someone else was there, if they heard you walking they'd run a mile.

Thats the mindset I put myself in when I'm in dark and quiet places.
 
Also, physical fitness can help you with this kind of fear.

If you're well built, or know you can run for 5 miles quite easily, you will again feel more able to defend yourself, or 'escape' a situation. Might sound a bit odd but it does work.

It's all in the mind! Mostly.
 
Don't think I'd fancy that job myself mate, but all I can say is





















Boooooooooooo ! :D

Serious note though mate, think about what the task involves not what the surroundings are like, job done and home.
 
Fear is often irrational, for example I have a fear of loft hatches in bathrooms ever since I had a nightmare when a child and whatever was in the loft hatch killed everyone. To this day loft hatches in bathrooms freak me the hell out, so much so that the one that was in my house I had moved and sealed.....


However, you will find that familiarity will eventually lessen the fear and the longer you do the job and get into a routine the more mundane and normal it will become. You will find that your fear lessens over time, so stick with it and chew some gum in the meantime.
 
Castiel said:
Fear is often irrational, for example I have a fear of loft hatches in bathrooms ever since I had a nightmare when a child and whatever was in the loft hatch killed everyone. To this day loft hatches in bathrooms freak me the hell out, so much so that the one that was in my house I had moved and sealed.....


However, you will find that familiarity will eventually lessen the fear and the longer you do the job and get into a routine the more mundane and normal it will become. You will find that your fear lessens over time, so stick with it and chew some gum in the meantime.
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Loft hatch in my bathroom is open!!

the other day a bumble bee fell out of the hatch into bathroom. I had no choice but to smack it with bathroom slippers.
 
WingZero30 said:
Loft hatch in my bathroom is open!!

the other day a bumble bee fell out of the hatch into bathroom. I had no choice but to smack it with bathroom slippers.
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I would have blown hole in the floor, because the only way you would have gotten me in that bathroom with the hatch open is if I had pair of Desert Eagles.........:eek:
 
However sometimes during the night when I have to visit bathroom, it can be a bit freaky with the hatch open!! As if someone would be staring at me through that hatch :eek:

I also sometimes imagine when looking at the mirror if someone would drop behind me:eek:
 
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