You are afraid of flying what do you do?

Answer 1

you could just not fly or you could try sleeping. im scared to fly to but i still want to go on holiday, my mum said to just forget about it and think of getting at the hotel and having a good time. you could also watch the DVD on the plane.

Answer 2

I read that before you get on an airplane you should sit down in the airport, close your eyes, say the alphabet backwards and count to 5,000. Hope this helps! (I myself am scared of flying so you're not the only one!) ;)

Answer 3

Each of us gets a certain amount of built-in ability to regulate anxiety. When we don't build in an optimal amount of this ability, we compensate in one way or another to deal with anxiety.

Most common ways to make up for not enough built-in ability to regulate anxiety are to try to control situations we find ourselves in, and to avoid situations we can't control unless we have a way out. Flying - as a passenger - gives us no ability to control the plane or to get out of the plane during flight. The result is anxiety.

Learning more about how flying works helps, but that alone is not enough. That is just intellectual; the problem is more emotional. A part of the brain - the amygdala - triggers the release of stress hormones when we think "what if the wings fall off" or "what if there is a terrorist onboard"? The stress hormones cause the feelings.

If we could keep these thoughts out of mind we would not get either the stress hormones or the feelings. Some people are able to keep unwanted thoughts out of the mind, or can do so for a while. But when that system fails - often it fails when in turbulence - it can't be reestablished.

This leaves no answer other than to change the unconscious mental procedures associated with operation of the amygdala in the subcortex.

Answer 4

you call it plane phobia

Answer 5

don't fly