Off topic, but I remember my apartment in China had like metal bars protecting the windows in the apartmeny, but in the stairwell of the building, there was a sort of “window area” that isn’t protected. As a kid, I had fear of heights, but also have intrusive thoughts about falling out the building.
Like, I’m gonna try to illustrate on my notes app:
So that little rectangle is the apartment and the smaller rectangle is the door. So the right side of the stairs goes down. Then ir turns 180 degrees around then goes down further, get it? On in the middle platform where it turns (in between floors, there is a “window” area. The window looked like this:
The part colored below is a concrete barrier. About like 3-4 feet in height (feet, because I’ve been acustomed to useing american measuremenys).
Above that is just nothing. Zero barrier. Outside is the air, and below is death.
So if you were an adult, you could just leap over the concrete barrier and fall to your death.
I lived like 5-6 floors high.
Every day I would fear I accidentally run down the stairs too fast and accidentally leap over and die.
I’m pretty sure that barrier is not gonna be legal in the US. (Correct me if I’m wrong)
(Sorry about the shitty illuatrarion, words are hard to describe)
I get this type of intrusive thought. I think there’s a french phrase for this “l’appel du vide” or call of the void. I think it’s quite common actually.
No. There’s a reason cheap apartments in China have enclosed balconies.
Off topic, but I remember my apartment in China had like metal bars protecting the windows in the apartmeny, but in the stairwell of the building, there was a sort of “window area” that isn’t protected. As a kid, I had fear of heights, but also have intrusive thoughts about falling out the building.
Like, I’m gonna try to illustrate on my notes app:
So that little rectangle is the apartment and the smaller rectangle is the door. So the right side of the stairs goes down. Then ir turns 180 degrees around then goes down further, get it? On in the middle platform where it turns (in between floors, there is a “window” area. The window looked like this:
The part colored below is a concrete barrier. About like 3-4 feet in height (feet, because I’ve been acustomed to useing american measuremenys).
Above that is just nothing. Zero barrier. Outside is the air, and below is death.
So if you were an adult, you could just leap over the concrete barrier and fall to your death.
I lived like 5-6 floors high.
Every day I would fear I accidentally run down the stairs too fast and accidentally leap over and die.
I’m pretty sure that barrier is not gonna be legal in the US. (Correct me if I’m wrong)
(Sorry about the shitty illuatrarion, words are hard to describe)
I get this type of intrusive thought. I think there’s a french phrase for this “l’appel du vide” or call of the void. I think it’s quite common actually.