[Top Gun68]

Ride Drop Tower over and over until it isn't scary anymore. Haha that will take any fear you have, out of you.

[Coaster Punk]

How about you do it and you tell me how you feel when u get done!

[JShafer]

I remember those days. I was scared out of my mind to ride even the smallest rides.

My advice is just to sit back and watch the ride a few times, breath as deeply as you can, and try to stay relaxed.
Once you feel you are ready get in line. If you have someone with you to talk to while your waiting it can help with the fear and nervousness. Once you're on the ride, just close your eyes, sit back, and think about how much fun you're about to have.

I've helped many of my friends out using this method, so I know it works for most.

[chargercrazy]

Just ride and then puke or hyperventilate or whatever you do. You'll feel better afterwards.

[charlotteguy02]

Several years back I was on a Discovery Channel show (or some Discovery affiliate) about people with a fear of coasters that was filmed at Carowinds. Anyone else on here at that thing? There were probably a couple dozen of us, some coaster enthusiasts and others coaster phobics. They had us go through a seminar with some weird guy in the big room above the main entrance who was trying to help the phobics over their fears, then all of us rode Top Gun over and over. I think it was back in 2003 or so, I'll have to try and find some video on the web of it.

[coasterbruh]

Several years back I was on a Discovery Channel show (or some Discovery affiliate) about people with a fear of coasters that was filmed at Carowinds. Anyone else on here at that thing? There were probably a couple dozen of us, some coaster enthusiasts and others coaster phobics. They had us go through a seminar with some weird guy in the big room above the main entrance who was trying to help the phobics over their fears, then all of us rode Top Gun over and over. I think it was back in 2003 or so, I'll have to try and find some video on the web of it.

so you were one of the fakers...or were you the guy who's girlfriend dumped him before the show aired lol...

[charlotteguy02]

LOL...I don't know what's funnier, me pretending to be a coaster phobic or me having a girlfriend! I was with my friend who didn't like roller coasters. She was short, and when then filmed us together they made her stand on a big wood box so we would be close to the same height.

[lily the walrus]

I remember those days. I was scared out of my mind to ride even the smallest rides.

My advice is just to sit back and watch the ride a few times, breath as deeply as you can, and try to stay relaxed.
Once you feel you are ready get in line. If you have someone with you to talk to while your waiting it can help with the fear and nervousness. Once you're on the ride, just close your eyes, sit back, and think about how much fun you're about to have.

I've helped many of my friends out using this method, so I know it works for most.

This is just about exactly what has worked for my 10 yr old daughter, who really isn't much of a daredevil at all. At the beginning of this season, her roller coaster count included the little caterpillar thing at our local fair and the spinning crazy mouse thingie at the NC State Fair (which is a really fun ride actually) and she firmly vowed to never set foot on a thrill ride in her entire life. Since April of this year, here is what she has ridden, roughly in order (and note that no matter how scared she was getting on, she has looked at me at the end of every one of them grinning and said "That was AWESOME!", and has re-ridden all of them, some of them many times):
-SFOG: Dahlonaga Mine Train, Canyon Blaster, Superman
-CW: Reptar (damn thing kills my neck/head though), Taxi, Fairly Odd, Goldrusher (I knew she was an enthusiast in the making when she wanted to ride it 5 times in a row), Ricochet
-Dollywood: Thunderhead, Tennessee Tornado
-CW: Afterburn
-Seaworld: Manta, Kraken
-IOA: Hulk (hell, even I was scared getting on that thing!!)

I tell you this because if she can do it, so can you. Since you appreciate the coasters as art, focus on admiring the beautiful engineering if you have to wait in a line. Go with someone who loves coasters but who won't give you a hard time. I never pressure my kid, but I do encourage her. She only gets on when SHE feels ready- which is not to say she isn't scared, but she feels ready to do it regardless. And she always closes her eyes the first time, which she says helps her cope with her fear. She also knows and respects her own limits--she refuses to get on anything that has what she perceives as a "big steep drop" (even something fairly tame like Hurler), which is fine...I know it's only a matter of time until she's be obsessed with Intimidator

[Top Gun68]

How about you do it and you tell me how you feel when u get done!

Is 55 rides in one day enough?