I posted this in another thread. But I have a deathly fear of heights. But its only certain situations. I can be on a mountain and look down, be fine. Most bridges are fine. I climb a tree and I’m barely in the tree at all? Deathly afraid. Narrow path on a mountain? I’ll get on my hands and knees and crawl. Wooden bridges with empty spaces between each wood beam? I’ll take the long way around.
Which…leads into video games. WoW isn’t the only one, but it is the one I play the most.
There are some areas of the game to get to a quest objective or a rare or a chest you gotta navigate a narrow path with a huge cliff to death below. Its just a game, but it causes me immense anxiety in real life and almost get a panic attack but I gotta do it cause gotta 100% the zone 
but its not very fun.
Does this happen to anyone else? I never see anyone ever talk about it, so must be super rare.
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Yeah, when people ask to be on battlenet as that then invites then onto my desktop.
On my desktop I am not an elf and I don’t posses the magic of being an elf.
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Stress over the future of my guild when recruitment is tough.
but over something like… an in-game quest or tough mob?
no…
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Deep water. I couldn’t get through Vash’jir without help. I still won’t go near that deep pool of water in Nazjatar. The fish quest can go screw itself.
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My anxiety comes from Tanking Mythic+ mainly cause I deal with idiots all day that don’t know how to play their classes, but will try to tell me how to run mine.
Like the idiot rogue complaining he has aggro yet he ran ahead grabbed the mobs popped every cool-down he had died and blamed me for his incompetence. -Just an example.
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Trying to tank, or doing pvp. Both are excruciatingly bad. But otherwise, no.
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Tanking for a pug of any type.
Unrelated to social things:
Spiders.
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Dang, bad thalassaphobia eh?
I get adrenaline bursts when everything’s going to crap and i need to heal through it. 
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The really really deep water sort of freaks me out.
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No. I find that the monitor pretty easily separates my anxieties and fears that I have in real life from the digital world.
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Check out the r/thalassophobia subreddit. 
Falling, will actually cause me to feel upset and sick, sometimes anxiety, but not for long.
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sometimes when i fall off a particularly high point, i get that awesome feeling you get in a roller coaster when you go hurtling down. i chalk that up to decent immersion. 
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I pass it sometimes. That doesn’t bother me usually, it’s in games where I have to actually swim into deep water. I remember hating Dire, Dire Docks when I was a kid too. Beautiful score though.
Ironically I didn’t like Vash’jr either, but my reason was the awkward angles, my husband he couldn’t even get through it he had to have me lead the way for him.
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Dying in a location I’m unable to ressurect or am incredibly far away from puts a knot in my chest like you wouldn’t believe. I sit there before I take the rez sickness for like five minutes deciding wether or not to make the run. Which is hilarious because that’s five minutes spent I could have just burnt down the rez sickness…
If that happens to me I usually just take the rez sickness, and then take the time as an opportunity to get up and stretch, use the restroom, make a snack, get a drink, read the news 
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The game really shouldn’t cause that…maybe the forums might.
I get anxiety when I raid above LFR difficulty.
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Nope… Tanking, healing, raiding, M+, arena… I just dive right in.
It’s just a video game at the end of the day… The worst thing that can happen to you is someone saying mean things and that doesn’t phase me at all. Like Awkward said above,