What causes acrophobia?

No one thing causes acrophobia. It can be a result of a trauma. It can come on because a person knows someone who had a negative experience like falling off a bridge. It can stem from a movie or just an obsessive thought. Those who suffer from high anxiety are more likely to get acrophobia, but even a person who is well balanced can experience trauma and come down with it. Those who have to watch a movie about it and have high anxiety are prone to exaggerate their fears and end up with acrophobia too.

Sometimes, those who are likely to worry can hear of another person suffering from it and adopt the same fears. The science behind it has to do with the way the brain receives the information and how it processes it. We are all made differently and process fears and anxiety differently, too. Acrophobia is a disorder of the brain, processing the information as it exaggerates the fear associated with heights.