Have you considered exposure therapy with VR? It's a 100% safe way of getting over things like that (you can be in a basement while doing this), and from what I hear, it works very well.
Essentially, you'd be using Virtual Reality to trick your brain's visual center into thinking you are at increasing heights, so you can deal with the anxiety slow and at your own pace, while you're actually just standing inside on some floor, and you can take the head-mounted display off at any time if it's too uncomfortable.
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Have you considered exposure therapy with VR? It's a 100% safe way of getting over things like that (you can be in a basement while doing this), and from what I hear, it works very well.
Essentially, you'd be using Virtual Reality to trick your brain's visual center into thinking you are at increasing heights, so you can deal with the anxiety slow and at your own pace, while you're actually just standing inside on some floor, and you can take the head-mounted display off at any time if it's too uncomfortable.
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