Talk:Bathophobia/@comment-67.1.213.158-20200621124832

The first time I experienced my anxiety was when I went to the Queen Mary. I was about 9 or so. My first encounter was thinking how terrible it would be floating in the water next to the ship. Then I went inside. There is a room where you get to go in and ther is a platform that half moons the entrance to the exit. You look down in the water and see the huge propellers. I had to close my eyes and hold the railing to get out. Its hard for me to watch a movie where someone is floating in a boat or raft and being rescued by a ship. As much as I would love to see the Arizona at Pearl Harbor, I can't see myself standing over it. There is no way I could swim up to any sunken ship. I went to a boat dock where they had a ship in dry dock, There is no way I could go up to it and touch the bottom. There was an Olympic pool with a huge mermaid in tile on the bottom. I could not swim over it.