你恐高吗?

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.

你恐高吗?当你离地面太高的时候，你会高度焦虑吗?也许是开车经过一座桥，或者是在一座高大的办公楼里。据医疗媒体报道，世界上大约5%的人恐高，我们称之为恐高症。如果你有恐高症，你会对高度极度恐惧和焦虑。站在梯子上会使你恐慌。玻璃电梯、自动扶梯、乘坐飞机、住在高楼层的酒店房间或登山也会。

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.

《今日心理学》指出，你可能会感到与地面脱节，害怕摔倒。当你在一个封闭的空间里，比如飞机上，你会感到失控，因为你不能从令你恐惧的地方走开。就像爬山一样，对于那些因为你的本体感觉而恐高的人来说，开阔的空间也是可怕的——本体感觉是五种帮助你在空间中决定身体的感觉。

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).

虽然不是每个人都恐高，但通常每个人都有一种天生的不安感，那就是跌倒和受伤。当恐高时，你可能会停留在这种对疼痛的自然恐惧上，最终发展成恐高症。这种对你认为高的地方的不合逻辑的恐惧是对典型恐惧反应的夸大。

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.

就个人历史而言，恐高症是如何源于个人的过去形成的，是一个备受争议的问题。一些医学专家认为恐高症是一种习得反应。例如，你可能是由于以前摔伤过，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导致广场恐惧症。你的身体有五个系统(内耳、眼睛、触觉、嗅觉和听觉)，可以让你感觉到自己与周围环境的关系。如果一个系统不能传递信息，信息的缺乏就会削弱你对位置的感知。因此，这种方向性的下降导致了恐高症患者的恐惧和焦虑。