I sure can’t eat 10 Fazoli’s breadsticks in one sitting anymore.
Amateur. I can still put them away like crazy but I'm probably on the verge of a heart attack.
Roller coasters. Used to love them..now get the worst headaches
I can't ride them anymore. Last time I rode amusement park rides it was the end of my back and neck. Already had issues but that sent it over the top. Now I have a fusion in my neck and lower back. If staring down at my phone can give me a bad headache, I'm sure I will have a migraine on a roller coaster.
I've never liked heights but could deal with them. Just was a little nervous on flights and being in a basket on a snorkel lift 3 or 4 stories up (inspected airplanes with them in the Air Force).
I managed but now I feel like I am about to have a panic attack just looking at stuff up high. It didn't get that bad until I went up in the Sears Tower on a field trip on my son's 5th grade trip. Feeling the building sway and it was bad. My heart was racing, I was sweating, and I felt kind of dizzy. It probably didn't help that I had 9/11 in the back of my mind. Ever since that day it's gotten really bad and I can hardly watch any videos with heights involved without those feelings coming back.
After I got to my late 30s I started developing some claustrophobia.
I get really uncomfortable on any amusement park rides that have the bars that pull over your shoulders and press against your chest.
I try to avoid them now, because the ride attendants tend to walk by and push them a click more tightly than I want and I always think, “What if I get stuck on this ride?” and my chest gets tight and I begin to worry that I will have a heart attack if I don’t get free in less than a few minutes.
I've never really had claustrophobia except one time in my car waiting in line to go into Lights Under Louisville. They had 3 rows of cars and I was in the middle. So I was surrounded on all 4 sides and no one was moving. That bugged me for some reason.
Mine came from a hotel. I've been on roller coasters, the Sears tower, the empire state building, in planes, bunjee jumping, etc...
Then one day a friend and I went to Indy. We stayed at a hotel with 17 stories and we asked to stay at the top floor. It was an atrium style hotel so I walked over and looked down. And realized that the guard rail didn't even come to my waist. After that I just can't do it. I saw Spiderman: homecoming in the theater and that scene on the Washington Monument made me numb. There is a game called Last of us 2. Theres a part when you have to walk between skyscrapers. I almost had an anxiety attack. Playing a damn video game.
I can't even look at ladders.
I could barely stand out on the 11th floor balcony in our hotel room in Florida. That recent condo collapse would probably make it hit me worse now. The first time I noticed an issue watching something was one of these videos. My hands started sweating just looking for this.
Then when Tim Cruise was on the outside of the Burj Khalifa in Mission Impossible Ghost Protocol, I barely made it through it. That dude is insane by the way. In the new Top Gun, Cruise and the other actors are actually in the planes doing all of the action scenes. It's going to probably be rough watching that movie.
