Gary Cavie wrote:

I have no problem with going to any height on a ladder, and working from
it, but get vertigo if I go on a tower, or flat roof. Pitched roofs, even
on a bungalow with eaves 7' from the ground, and I'm petrified. My shed
roof is about 6' up, flat, and 20' x 10'. If I have to go up there to
fiddle with the aerials, I can't look down.

Is this a weird combination, or is anybody else the same?

Gary


Brother-in-law has had a bad fear of heights since childhood, as have
both his sisters and mother (guess where the children get the fear from?
Thanks Mum). Anyway, they were much amused that he more or less cured
his fear by becoming a roofer. He can now do all those frightening
things roofers do, like walk along ridges. But he cannot go near the
edges of flat roofs.

Rgd sRichard