Does anyone else have severe CPTSD from an unusual thing?

I do have a few unusual traumas. One being I had a weird (psychotic?) mental breakdown and became.... afraid of the sky. Casadastraphobia specifically. I could barely go outside for a while because just seeing the sky and thinking about how endless it was sent me into a violent panic attack. Anything space themed or seeing balloons drift upwards scared me so bad. I had to leave places before and it sucked because going outside made it worse and being in a car made it worse.

A few years later I found out I actually have an inner ear disorder that causes vertigo. That's what triggered it. I learned to manage that and the phobia went away. Sometimes I still get freaked out about it though or have flashbacks to the feeling. But I can't talk about it without people laughing at me. People have even offered to pay for me to get on an airplane to go on fully paid for vacations with them. I can't do it because I'm afraid the pressure changes in the plane would mess with my ears and I'd have some sort of mental health crisis while up in the sky.

Sometimes trauma isn't exactly logical or the reaction most people would expect to something. I don't think your story sounds absurd at all

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