Afraid of stairs?!

Afraid of stairs?

I have a big fear of stairs and I don't know why. I hate walking down them...and I don't really like walking up them, but its a little bit better. I feel really stupid seeing all these people walking up and down stairs without any problem, while I'm almost crying just thinking about it. Is anyone else like this? How can I change this?

im afraid of escalators, i think i got my shoe caught in one when i was five and it had some impact on me that i dont understand, everytime im in the mall or anywhere with escalators i use the stairs, some stores dont even have stairs anymore and if im with someone i just wont go to the next floor with them, i dont know exactly why im afraid of them, but im sure i could just tell myself to and i would and id be fine, but its not on my list of things to do because im fine with taking the stairs and its healthier anyway.
but i understand where your fear could come from, im afraid of old stairs, and some certain stairs, like the ones that look like they could break and you could fall through, also that same way with ladders, but im better with that now too, i used to have to be carried up a ladder if i had to be on one, like to get to my dads houseboat when it was on the land, i would be hysterical, and could never ever climb up or down the ladder, i had to be carried. that fear come from me thinking that it will tip over and fall to the ground with me on it,
one of my friends just recently sliped on her deck stairs when it was raining, and she fell down afew, and on broke, and she got a pretty bad bruise and cuts, those kind of stairs scare me, and i understand you could be afraid of stairs since some people do get injuries on them. and some people have way worse fears, like a fear of outside, inside, a color, flowers, animals, for almost everything on this earth, theres atleast one person who is scared of it. some fears are just alot less common than others.
to answer your question about how you can change it, it depends, if this fear is affecting your life and you cant live with it, then it could be anxiety, and maybe an anxiety medicine would help, you could talk to a doctor, or therepist/psychiatrist about it, and if its not a fear from an actual thing in your brain that you have to reverse with more than just dealing with it yourself, then that what you can try to do, try to deal with it yourself, take it one step at a time, and just think it will be okay, think to yourself, whats the worse that can happen? talk yourself into it, saying that you'll be stronger if you can do it, think of it as a challenge, just calm down when you are trying this, it will take time, but you can do it, everything takes practice, especially overcoming a fear, because no matter how much someone thinks that its a stupid fear, or whatever they think, a fear is a fear, and it takes work to overcome a fear. good luck, you can do it!