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Fear in Climbing Survey -Please help! 30-Nov-2007 At 8:41:22 AM adamclay

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Fear-inducing situation 2:

Please spend a few minutes recalling the most recent Fear-Inducing situation (when you consider your level of climbing experience to have been comparatively high) and for which you have reasonable recall regardless of climbing style and then answer the following questions in relation to this event.
10) How long had you been climbing at the time? ……….years ……….months

11) Did you experience any of the following immediately following the perception that you were in danger? (Please circle Yes or No)

31. YES / NO Froze – stopped moving
32. YES / NO Became startled and let go or backed off
33. YES / NO Held on as tightly as possible
34. YES / NO Increased heart rate
35. YES / NO Increased breathing rate
36. YES / NO Dizziness
37. YES / NO Shaking
38. YES / NO Increased sweating (hands)
39. YES / NO Remained calm
40. YES / NO Thoughts raced

12) With regard to the same experience, to what level did you experience any of the following in the time that followed your initial “shock” due to the perception that you were in danger? (Please circle Yes or No)

41. YES / NO Remained / Became frozen
42. YES / NO Quickly backed away (climbed down) and fell or made the situation worse
43. YES / NO Calmly backed away (climbed down) and was successful
44. YES / NO Held on as tightly as possible
45. YES / NO Automatically placed some protection (quickdraw, stoppers, cams etc.)
46. YES / NO Grabbed good holds or existing protection (top rope, stoppers, cams etc)
47. YES / NO Thoughts became irrational and focussed on consequences (panicked)
48. YES / NO Thoughts automatically became directed on ensuring safety / escape
49. YES / NO Everything went quiet - did not hear others talking to me or other sounds
50. YES / NO Accepted the danger and decided to continue / try something
51. YES / NO Holds and features seemed further away than they really were
52. YES / NO Experienced “tunnel vision” – missed obvious holds or features
53. YES / NO Increased awareness of relevant information, reduced awareness of external distractions
54. YES / NO Examined the situation and planned the climbing sequence/procedure required to escape
55. YES / NO Nausea
56. YES / NO Increased Breathing Rate
57. YES / NO Increased Sweating (hands)
58. YES / NO Became confused, unable to think clearly or experienced difficulty planning
59. YES / NO Blocked fearful thoughts
60. YES / NO Listened to others for advice / Sought advice from others

Recent Non-climbing Fear-inducing situations:

13) Have you recently experienced fear from being startled in a non-climbing situation? (Examples might include seeing a spider, or thinking a stick was a snake etc.)
YES NO

If you answered “yes” please relate what happened outlining your immediate responses / feelings and then subsequent actions in as much detail as possible including immediate automatic (first few seconds) responses and then the actions that followed using the questions above as a general guide as to possible responses.

Thankyou for your participation.

Adam Clay