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Acrophobia being 'extreme or irrational fear of heights' Vertigo being 'a sensation of whirling and loss of balance, associated particularly with looking down from a great height, or caused by disease affecting the inner ear or the vestibular nerve' (putting this in 'Healthy Bums' because in my case it is related to exercise, and potentially related to diet and certain treatments..) I've always feared heights, usually with the dizzy unbalanced sensation described above -- on a bridge, a tall building, a cliff edge, a ladder, etc, but also on much smaller heights, sometimes even something as low as my knees (e.g. a chair, if I feel like I might fall off). So... How can I overcome this nonsense? It's been a nuisance for a long time, keeping me from doing and enjoying certain things in life, including looking out of my own window in some apartments I've lived in, and it's currently keeping me from expanding my training (into bouldering, parkour, etc). For the first time I've decided to try and put some genuine effort into overcoming it. Yesterday I climbed up onto a tree stump, about chest height, and stood up. Almost instantly I became very dizzy and a little nauseated, and had to concentrate very hard just to lower myself to a sitting position. I think I was lucky not to topple off. Just thinking about it now is making me feel slightly sick. Does anyone have experience with all this? What about incremental exposure to heights? If I stay with it every day for, say, a year, will it eventually 'cure' the vertigo? Can one re-calibrate the brain like so? Might acupuncture or other treatments help? A type of qigong or other practice?