# What is the name for this phobia/anxiety?

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**Created:** [June 14, 2010, 2:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/what-is-the-name-for-this-phobia-anxiety/543083 "2010-06-14T02:17:19Z")\
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> [@Cheshire\_Human](#):
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> … sometimes when I’m driving … I feel an urge to just “drift over into the other lane, in front of that big truck” …

I have acrophobia and have occasionally heard, or known by myself, that it was often more a fear of jumping than of falling. Wiki and Google do _not_ confirm this; they mention a different phobia (Catapedaphobia) but it doesn’t seem right either.

I also get the sensation **Cheshire Human** mentions but, fortunately, it’s just a light fantasy not a disabling fear.

I don’t fear heights riding airplanes … except (slightly) when next to emergency door!

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