Women On The Edge Of A Nervous Breakdown

[Charlybrown]

Hey guys! I'm looking for some advice here.

I post this under comfort because I think that if I can stimulate any discussion, the outcome might be helpful for further understanding of comfort and its techniques.

This is my problem:

Friday. Me and an affaire of mine, we go to the movies. It's a very big theater, usually a festival theater where the Blue Man Group and alike are playing, and we have seats on a second level balconry. But my girl has acrophobia, that is, she is afraid of heights, what I did not know, and totally freaks out: she has a panic attack on our way up, goes pale, shivers all over, doesn't dare to enter the balconry and so on. We have to make quite some effort to get other seats on the lower levels and she almost ruins the movie.

Saturday. I come home in the evening just to find my female flatmate having a panic attack due to some stressful university exams coming up. She's crying badly, heart racing, trembling, afraid - and I need to comfort her to calm down a bit. She does ruin my saturday though.


So, any experience with women having a hard time like that? How to deal with women in such a condition - I mean, besides just being calm and understanding, being a strong shoulder to lean against, embracing her, having a soothing voice and so on. I know all that.

But it somehow unnerves me too and I have to be careful not to show that I'm getting annoyed, because I want women around who can take care of themselves and not freak out just because of some university exams (I have more patience & understanding for acrophobia, though).


Suggestions would be highly appreciated,
thanks & greetings, CB