The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders says that specific phobias affect 7-9% of the population in the United States
. In our conversation, he pointed out that, while my self-calming trick works for me, it might not work for everyone.
To be honest, I couldn’t make out the rest of his sentence, probably because my blood was pounding in my ears. He may have said,"Some people get scared out of their wits.” He may have said they “get an urgent need to urinate.” I’ll never know.My guide was Enzo Gentile. He is one of the first employees hired at City Climb and one of the people who’d trained other guides and helped institute safety procedures.
3. I mention “run in a panic to an exit” only because I had once almost done the scuba diving equivalent of that. It was during my first in-ocean diving lesson. We went quickly to a depth of about 30 feet. Uncomfortable with the whole experience, I almost took a big breath of air, ripped the regulator out of my mouth, and swam quickly to the surface. Doing that can explode your lungs.
7. When we got to the flight of 161 stairs that would take us to the very top , my excitement began to pick up. The stairs rise at a 45-degree angle. I’m in fairly good physical shape, so the incline and length of the staircase wouldn’t in and of itself be a problem for me. However, dragging the trolley up was going to take effort.
12. Enzo just kept me talking. As we did, I remembered that the Siamese cat I’d had as a kid was so unnerved when we moved to a new house that she spent three days sitting next to a radiator, twisting her neck so as to keep her head in the dark space behind the metal. That’s essentially what I’d been doing at nearly 1270 feet when looking resolutely at the metal trolley and refusing to look down at the river or at the tops of tall buildings that were far below me.
18. Enzo pointed northward. The snow was falling faster. Even so, we could see the George Washington Bridge.
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