Aerophobia - a very common diagnosis. Is it possible to cope with the fear fly?
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Why at airports a lot of drunk people? Only because they celebrate the beginning of vacation? Unfortunately, most of them are simply afraid to fly. Do not everyone know about your strong fear of aircraft, but subconsciously everyone strive to drown. And if one helps wine and whiskey at the airport bar, others can survive only with sleeping pills. Third go to very fundamental measures — Syotreus refuse to fly. How to overcome the fear of aircraft and not refuse to yourself in a great rest in distant countries, nor on business trips providing career growth?
What is the fear of aircraft?
The main reason for the fear of flights — lack of information about aircraft and vitality of myths transmitted from mouth to mouth. For example, about air pits, turbulence and old airplanes.
The truth is that the plane — The safest type of transport. When the plane falls and people die, this event instantly falls into the press, its details are discussed for several days and even weeks. And all because the air crash — Event from a series of outgoing.
Per year in plane crashes around the world 500 people die. For comparison: 1,5 million people die in car accidents in the world. Only the media are not interested in conventional accidents, if the dead — ordinary people.
If every evening in the news heard colorful stories about the thousands of those killed on the roads, we would never sit behind the wheel or passenger seats. But we prefer to ignore the danger of the car and blow the danger of aircraft. Just because we know about planes less than about cars.
And in fact widespread fears in front of aircraft based exclusively on delusions and ignorance.
For example, turbulence: when the plane begins to shook. Do you panick when the car in which you are driving is shaking on an uneven road? Probably not. Exactly the same — Airborne turbulence. These are ordinary «Ughab», Only not on the road, but in the air. They are also natural as Colds on uneven asphalt or rustic calary.
Or take the fear of noise that the plane. Yes, sounds change. If only because the aircraft need to dial the speed when takeoff, and then stabilize it. At this moment, the noise of the engines changes. Or when the aircraft comes to landing: he needs to reduce the speed, start turning and performing other actions to keep out on the runway.
As for the old age of aircraft, this concept is purely subjective. Before each (!) flight all the capabilities of the aircraft are carefully checked. Aircraft mechanics carry out full diagnosis of engine performance, wings, chassis, devices and everything that can affect flight. Even if the plane has already made three flights for today, before each following the airport team gives a pilot green light. Without permission of specialists «by iron» the aircraft has no right to take passengers. This is exactly what long-term expectation of the aircraft near the terminal.
How to overcome the fear of aircraft?
If the statistics talking about the safety of aircraft, you do not convince you, it's time to seek help. But you can do something yourself.
Of course, if the usual mention of someone else's flight causes you the attack of nausea, heartbeat and the desire to hide under the blanket, a specialist will help you. Aerofobia — Profitally studied fear, and psychotherapists have a huge arsenal of funds, which with a guarantee heal from panic attacks.
If you can make other people's stories about aircraft, but avoid thoughts about your own flight, you can try to cope with your phobia yourself. The main rule — graduality. Start by viewing pictures of aircraft, read the stories of people on the Internet about the flights, study the entire process of training the aircraft to receiving passengers.
After that, go to the airport. No need to buy a ticket and experience yourself flight. Stay by the viewer: watch the takeoff and landing airliners, take pictures, write all the feelings that arise from you in the process. Over time, you will get used to the fact that hundreds and thousands of people are safely launched, meet with relatives.
When you feel that you can easily look at the landing of the aircraft, start planning your own flight. Give yourself a time (how much will be required) to get used to the thought that you go around the ladder into the salon, sit down in the chair, take off, you will read, have, look in the porthole, and then gently land and go out in another airport. Imagine yourself in flight as many times as you need so that you stop pounding the heart and sweat your palms.
Now you are ready to buy a ticket.
You can also watch video about the causes and modern methods of treatment of Aerofobia.
