你恐高嗎?

Are you afraid of heights? Do you get highly anxious when you're too high off the ground? Maybe it's driving over a bridge or being in a tall office building. About 5% of the world is afraid of heights, according to Remedy Health Media, and it is called acrophobia. If you have acrophobia, you have extreme fear and anxiety about heights. Standing on a ladder can cause you to panic. So can glass elevators, escalators, flying on a plane, staying in a hotel room on a high floor, or hiking a mountain.

你恐高嗎?當(dāng)你離地面太高的時候，你會高度焦慮嗎?也許是開車經(jīng)過一座橋，或者是在一座高大的辦公樓里。據(jù)醫(yī)療媒體報道，世界上大約5%的人恐高，我們稱之為恐高癥。如果你有恐高癥，你會對高度極度恐懼和焦慮。站在梯子上會使你恐慌。玻璃電梯、自動扶梯、乘坐飛機、住在高樓層的酒店房間或登山也會。

Psychology Today notes that you might feel disconnected from the ground and that you're scared you will fall. When you're in an enclosed space, such as an airplane, you feel out of control because you can't just walk away from what's frightening you. Like climbing a mountain, open spaces are also terrifying for people who are afraid of heights because of your proprioception — five senses that help you determine your body in space.

《今日心理學(xué)》指出，你可能會感到與地面脫節(jié)，害怕摔倒。當(dāng)你在一個封閉的空間里，比如飛機上，你會感到失控，因為你不能從令你恐懼的地方走開。就像爬山一樣，對于那些因為你的本體感覺而恐高的人來說，開闊的空間也是可怕的——本體感覺是五種幫助你在空間中決定身體的感覺。

Though not everyone is afraid of heights, all generally have an innate uneasy feeling of falling and injuring ourselves. When you're fearful of heights, you might dwell on this natural fear of pain that ultimately develops into acrophobia. This illogical fear of places you perceive as high is an exaggeration of the typical fear response (via Remedy Health Media).

雖然不是每個人都恐高，但通常每個人都有一種天生的不安感，那就是跌倒和受傷。當(dāng)恐高時，你可能會停留在這種對疼痛的自然恐懼上，最終發(fā)展成恐高癥。這種對你認(rèn)為高的地方的不合邏輯的恐懼是對典型恐懼反應(yīng)的夸大。

As far as your personal history, it is highly debated how acrophobia stems from a person's past. Some medical experts argue that acrophobia is a learned response. For instance, you may be triggered by having previously injured yourself from a fall, or it could be caused by your parent's fear of heights.

就個人歷史而言，恐高癥是如何源于個人的過去形成的，是一個備受爭議的問題。一些醫(yī)學(xué)專家認(rèn)為恐高癥是一種習(xí)得反應(yīng)。例如，你可能是由于以前摔傷過，或者是你的父母恐高引起的。

Lastly, control or lack thereof can cause agoraphobia. Your body has five systems (inner ear, eyes, touch, smell, and hearing) that allow you to sense your physical location in relation to the environment around us. If a single system is not relaying information, that lack of information lessens how you sense your location. Consequently, this decline in orientation causes acrophobics to be scared and anxious (via Psychology Today).

最后，控制或缺乏控制可能導(dǎo)致廣場恐懼癥。你的身體有五個系統(tǒng)(內(nèi)耳、眼睛、觸覺、嗅覺和聽覺)，可以讓你感覺到自己與周圍環(huán)境的關(guān)系。如果一個系統(tǒng)不能傳遞信息，信息的缺乏就會削弱你對位置的感知。因此，這種方向性的下降導(dǎo)致了恐高癥患者的恐懼和焦慮。