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  Acrophobia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acrophobia (from Greek ἄκρος, meaning "summit") is an extreme or irrational fear of heights.
Acrophobia can be dangerous, as sufferers can experience a panic attack in a high place and become too agitated to get themselves down safely.
The most widely accepted explanation is that acrophobia stems from fear fear of falling and being injured or killed: this is a normal and rational fear that most people have (people without such fears would die out).
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acrophobia   (453 words)

  
 Acrophobia (game) - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
Acrophobia, commonly referred to as Acro for short, and also known as Acromania, is a multi-round, multiplayer online Internet Relay Chat game.
Acrophobia was developed without prior knowledge of the similar board game, Acronymble.
Acrophobia was created without the consent (or knowledge) of the makers of Acronymble.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Acrophobia_(game)   (523 words)

  
 Limona's Acrophobia Page
Acrophobia is a game that began beta testing in November of 1997, but that I discovered in March of 1998.
Acrophobia is a word game played with up to 14 players, where the goal is to make Acronyms from letters that flash up on the screen.
Acrophobia is now organized enough to have teams and groups who gravitate to certain Acrophobia "rooms." Even I have fallen victim to playing consistently in the same rooms.
www.angelfire.com /on2/limona/acro2.html   (387 words)

  
 ACROPHOBIA: Treatment and Hope
To add insult to an already distressing condition, most acrophobia therapies take months or years and sometimes even require the patient to be exposed repeatedly to their fear.
acrophobia will likely cost you tens, even hundreds of thousands of dollars over the course of your lifetime, let alone the cost to your health and quality of life.
1: acrophobia: a persistent, abnormal, and unwarranted fear of heights or high levels, despite the understanding by the phobic individual and reassurance by others that there is no danger.
www.changethatsrightnow.com /acrophobia.asp   (1363 words)

  
 WowEssays.com - Acrophobia
Treating Acrophobia 2 Treating Acrophobia GRADE-90 Wood (1999) describes a person suffering from a phobia experiences a persistent, irrational fear of some specific object, situation, or activity that poses no real danger (or whose danger is blown all out of proportion).
Claustrophobia and acrophobia are two types of phobias that are usually treated by therapists.
Acrophobia is the situational phobia in which there is a fear of heights.
www.wowessays.com /dbase/af5/mrh12.shtml   (1099 words)

  
 Acrophobia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Acrophobia can be dangerous because sufferers can a panic attack in a high place and be to get themselves out of it.
The difference seems to that when flying there is no visual between the aircraft and the ground beneath: and successful pilots who are acrophobic have that their fear suddenly emerges if such connection is made e.g.
Acrophobia is a specific-object phobia and like such phobias is relatively easily addressed by behaviour such as systematic desensitization or flooding.
www.freeglossary.com /Acrophobia   (220 words)

  
 Acrophobia - Fear of heights   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Acrophobia can be dangerous, because sufferers can experience a panic attack in a high place and be unable to get themselves out of it.
The difference seems to be that when flying, there is no visual connection between the aircraft and the ground beneath: fearless and successful pilots who are acrophobic have reported that their fear suddenly emerges if such a connection is made, e.g.
Acrophobia is a specific-object phobia and like most such phobias is relatively easily addressed by behaviour therapies such as systematic desensitization or flooding.
www.aboutphobias.com /phobia/acrophobia.html   (188 words)

  
 Captain Blood's Acrophobia Odyssey - Introduction
As most of you already know, Acrophobia is a live word competition in cyberspace.
Acrophobia is itself a glorified IRC game (as the nature of the chatbox reveals), only with a fancy façade to make it more aesthetically appealing.
Its efficiency was overhauled and the overall design adapted to become the Acrophobia gameroom environment with which we are all familiar.
www.nyct.net /~capblood/Acrophobia/intro.htm   (220 words)

  
 Wired News: Acrophobia Gameshow Launches on the Internet
With its new Internet gameshow, the acronym-deciphering Acrophobia, Berkeley Systems hopes to take the witty attitude and simple game-play its You Don't Know Jack netshow is known for and build a community of gamers hanging out in chat rooms impressing each other with their clever word-play.
Acrophobia - in which players form phrases from a random group of initials and then vote on whose is cleverest - should continue in that tradition.
He came up with a rudimentary version of Acrophobia in a game which would be impervious to this kind of cheating.
www.wired.com /news/culture/0,1284,7263,00.html   (851 words)

  
 Spiritual Acrophobia
There seems to be a new mindset among some Christians and that is Spiritual Acrophobia.
Acrophobia by definition means a fear of high places.
There is a teaching being propagated by Harold Camping of Family Radio that the organized church is no longer being used of God to send forth the gospel.
www.familyradioiswrong.com /camping_spiritual_acrophobia.htm   (3517 words)

  
 Rules for Playing Acrophobia
The category in the first round is “General Acrophobia.” In all other rounds, the person who won the round (scored the Acro Bonus) gets to choose the next round’s category.
The category for all three Acros is “General Acrophobia.” If one person does not enter a legal answer, the other person scores the maximum amount possible for the Acro (as if everyone had voted for him.) If neither person enters a legal answer, no points are awarded for that Acro.
Acrophobia is a fun, fast-paced game where you match wits with up to 14 other gamers in an attempt to create witty and topical Acros.
www.alexandermagazine.com /family/rules_acrophobia.htm   (2012 words)

  
 A Look at the Online Game " Acrophobia"
Acrophobia is by Bezerk (www.bezerk.com) (which will bring you to the WON network in the Bezerk area), which is a part of Berkley Systems (www.berkleysytems.com).
Sierras’ Won.net (www.won.net) hosts not only Acrophobia but a couple of other Bezerk games also, including the riotous and ludicrous You Don’t Know Jack – The Netshow, one of the few games, possibly the only game, that goes out of its way to insult players.
Acrophobia, as with all the Bezerk games, is free, you can’t ask for more than that.
www.suite101.com /article.cfm/computer_gaming_previews_reviews/57352   (587 words)

  
 Virtual Reality Medical Center - VR Therapy for Acrophobia
Acrophobia, or the fear of heights, is characterized by an irrational fear of height situations resulting in the avoidance of such situations or the confrontation of such situations with marked distress.
This fear for some is endured with distress, whereas for others the fear is so intense that height situations must be avoided altogether.
Some may not be able to see a physician if his office is on the fifth floor, will not take a job because the office is on the tenth floor, or will not visit friends that move into an apartment three stories up.
www.vrphobia.com /heights.htm   (254 words)

  
 Acrophobia at Six Flags Over Georgia
The thing that makes Acrophobia really scary is that you dont no when your going to drop.
Acrophobia is a very fun and scary ride and I will for sure ride it again.
Of course the drop is great, the problem with Acrophobia is that the seat is poorly designed.
www.themeparkinsider.com /reviews/six_flags_over_georgia/acrophobia   (573 words)

  
 Acrophobia Addicts Anonymous Association
truth was that we were wiped out or on an Acrophobia binge.
Any/all copyrighted material is used for the purpose of parody and will gladly be removed if so requested by the authorzed copyright holder.
Acrophobia is a registered trademark of Berkley systems.
members.tripod.com /~acrophobiacs/checklist.html   (746 words)

  
 [No title]   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
The Acrophobia project is in the process of being moved from the ILTA (aka LawNet) listservs to Sourceforge.
If you have not used Acrophobia before, you should wait until the general release of version 3.
The config process assumes that samba and sendmail belong to Acrophobia and will make changes to smb.conf and sendmail.mc that may not get along with other applications on the box.
acrophobia.sourceforge.net /index.php?page_name=news.html   (223 words)

  
 Game Gardens: Game details: Acrophobia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
Acrophobia is a classic internet party game, once popularized by a flying toaster company.
Acrophobia presents you with a 3 to 7 letter acronym.
When a player reaches 30 points, the top 2 players are given 3 Lightning Rounds to fight for the title of Game Winner.
www.gamegardens.com /gardens/view_game.wm?gameid=25   (98 words)

  
 Acrophobia @ Six Flags Over Georgia - Theme Park Critic - Nation's Best Theme Parks and Rides
My expectation was for it to be a perfect 10, but Acrophobia didn't deliver the rush I thought it would.
I don't have a case of Acrophobia myself, but still, I am not thrilled by drop towers very much.
Acrophobia is a great state of the art THRILL ride and thats EXACTLY what it gives thrill.
www.themeparkcritic.com /scripts/ViewRide.asp?RideID=688   (807 words)

  
 Acrophobia: The Fear of Losing   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
In a game like Acrophobia, where you have almost no control over what goes on, there is really no way to cheat.
In, say, golf, pretty much the only ways to cheat are to (a) get someone to put the ball in the cup (à la Homer in The Simpsons' Country Club episode) or (b) erase your score on the scorecard and write in a lower one.
In Acrophobia, you can't get more votes than you actually got, and you can't erase your score and change it.
g.oswego.edu /~keith/acro   (359 words)

  
 NLP Weekly » NLP and TimeLine Therapy Method to Remove Acrophobia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
In the “NLP phobia cure” we are going to show you how to overcome Acrophobia, by teaching your brain to automatically think about the phobia but without associating the situation.
Use it to demolish the Acrophobia, not the happy times of your life.
It will change your feelings about Acrophobia immediately, since you’re not re-experiencing the fear / phobia, but your other-self is, on the screen.
www.nlpweekly.com /?p=323   (1054 words)

  
 UM Acrophobia Virtual Environment -- Eng 477 Final Report
"A person suffering from acrophobia experiences a pervasive fear of heights that may interfere with their ability to do even the most mundane tasks (e.g., they may not be able to park on the upper levels of a parking structure or even walk up a flight of stairs).
Since future work will be done on the Acrophobia project, this will allow for a greater understanding of the various files types.
This includes opening and closing elevator doors, selecting floors by pushing buttons in the elevator, moving the elevator up and down in response to button pushes, adding sounds such as floor announcements, and introducing birds and other moving elements into the courtyard.
www.umich.edu /~psychvr/report97   (4038 words)

  
 A Look at the Online Game " Acrophobia"
I was first introduced to Acrophobia by my cousins and soon became addicted.
When I discovered that it was gone I spent hours searching for it but I still haven't had any luck.
I was just on the website, Uproar.com, and they have the game Acrophobia included on their list of games.
www.suite101.com /discussion.cfm/8300/60761   (593 words)

  
 Acrophobia
Overcoming Fear of Heights: How to Conquer Acrophobia And Live a Life Without Limits (Pocket Phobia)
Lessons from the blue.(acrophobia keep it away by rockwall climbing)(Editorial): An article from: Industrial Engineer
Virtual Reality Tx Brings Fear of Heights to Earth.(virtual reality exposure therapy for acrophobia): An article from: Clinical Psychiatry News
www.veryhappening.com /things/acrophobia   (116 words)

  
 Acrophobia definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Acrophobia definition - Medical Dictionary definitions of popular medical terms
Acrophobia: An abnormally excessive and persistent fear of heights.
Sufferers experience severe anxiety even though they usually realize that, as a rule, heights pose no real threat to them.
www.medterms.com /script/main/art.asp?articlekey=9944   (108 words)

  
 Acrophobia : Reviews, Preview, Cheats, News, Screenshots, Movies, and Forum
This is one online word game that will have you scrambling.
Click here to be the first to post a message on "Acrophobia."
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www.rottentomatoes.com /g/pc_games/acrophobia   (231 words)

  
 Acrophobia Addicts Anonymous Association
We go to Cancun in Acrophobia and take over the entire room, if we can get in!  I played this
I was first introduced to Acrophobia when I was done playing YDKJ the
I started to hang around with other acrophobes in ACROPHOBIA.
members.tripod.com /~acrophobiacs/stories.html   (1597 words)

  
 Acrophobia   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-20)
This map was not too popular because of jump pad navigation.
Acrophobia was trimmed down extensively to meet the sub 10,000 polygon quota.
This greatly decreased the visual appeal of the level
web.ics.purdue.edu /~emoryl/jbpowlow2   (49 words)

  
 What Park Is Acrophobia at..
Home > Discussion Forums > North America Coaster and Park > What Park Is Acrophobia at..
After driving all night, and riding Acrophobia first thing to provide the 'adrenaline shot' wake-up call...
Acrophobia is pretty much my favorite ride at SFOG.
www.ultimaterollercoaster.com /forums/cgi/forum1.cgi?read=162258   (188 words)

  
 Medical Dictionary: Acrophobia - WrongDiagnosis.com
Acrophobia: Type of or association with medical condition Phobias.
Acrophobia: Acrophobia is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database: Phobias
Phobias (medical condition): Irrational fear of a particular situation, action, or item.
www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/acrophobia.htm   (230 words)

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