Fear of the sky

[WiredIncorrectly]

Sounds like you're afraid of open space. Me too. I'm not afraid of the sky, but what you describe is similar to the feelings of fearing open spaces.

How are you in large empty rooms? Or walking in fields compared to say a forest?

If you're like me you'll tend to walk by walls or objects that you can touch, and grab.

[LittleLionMan]

I didn’t realise someone had posted about this before. After a truly awful time with my anxiety, I started having intrusive thoughts about planets and it just freaked me out a bit (the idea that we live on a rock called Earth and the nature of it all) so I started avoiding tv shows and things that which talked about it, even using Twitter differently because it says location ‘Earth’ when people send tweets now. Then I went out for a cigarette one night and saw the moon and got panicky, so I started putting my hood up when I went outside so couldn’t see the sky, and now I have panic attacks as soon as it gets dark because the moon is ‘out there’ and I just hide away having panic attacks all night, it’s recently escalated to the sky in general, and I don’t know how to get out of it. If go and purposely just stare at it to challenge it, I know what will happen and it will make a bigger deal of it, as I’ve tried just revealing a little bit, and doing things outside and it just escalates the fear, so I just don’t know what to do… I feel so silly, but it's truly destroying me.

Any advice very welcome.