Always feel like I'm going to fall

[Rorster93]

I always feel like I'm about to fall off the edge of something high up. It bothers me every single day of my life, this constant feeling. I brought it up to my therapist, but she said it could be my chair...but I have this feeling no matter what chair I sit it.

I don't have it when I'm in the comfort of my bed with my animals and the TV going. And I don't feel it when I'm standing or walking, only when appropriate stimuli triggers me to remove myself from the danger of falling, but walking I don't get it.

It is only sitting at work or driving that I constantly feel like I'm about to fall.

Has anyone else experienced something similar?

 

[Rose White]

It’s not vertigo? Reminds me of this concept of “retained infant reflexes.” Occupational therapists might have insight into your symptom.

 

[Sideways]

Also worth getting your inner ear checked? Just a standard GP appointment?

 

[Movingforward10]

I only have this when out walking. I have an irrational fear that I will topple over head first. Logically, I know it totally unlikely and gravity doesn't work that way. But I think and feel it. I always put it down to vertigo. But I also think it's about catastrophising. "Bad things have happened so this bad thing can happen".
Maybe there is something about anticipating danger and being on high alert? I think that for me.

 

[Rorster93]

I only have this when out walking. I have an irrational fear that I will topple over head first. Logically, I know it totally unlikely and gravity doesn't work that way. But I think and feel it. I always put it down to vertigo. But I also think it's about catastrophising. "Bad things have happened so this bad thing can happen".
Maybe there is something about anticipating danger and being on high alert? I think that for me.

Yes it's kind of like being on edge because of the irrational fear of catastrophe. It reminds me of hypervigilance.