Help me out here Era...
How to overcome fear of flying? I fly about on avg 20-30K km in total each year and as of late my anxiety has not only manifested itself out of nowhere (still need to set up sessions with a psych to unpack but life just keeps postponing things...anyway) but also rooted itself in the element of fear of flying.
I never used to feel like this, in my teens or even mid twenties I actually enjoyed flying, now I dread it for a few reasons. One being I can't really afford business so I'm stuck on 10h flights crammed into these miniscule spaces (hell i'm even a small guy actually, short with avg build so god help those poor tall/gaunt bastards) and two now I just feel that I will die, accident statistics or overall safety of flying aside. It's like common sense is losing the battle in my mind all the time.
Hell I know that planes are built for some extreme conditons but when that turbulence hits my heart goes racing and my brains screams "this is it"...yet my brother loves to tell me the story of how I once, when younger, slept through a flight when things got so rocky that the gas masks dropped down and people started screaming in panic.
I don't really want to take meds or end up drinking excessively on the plane. Hate this shit.
How to overcome fear of flying? I fly about on avg 20-30K km in total each year and as of late my anxiety has not only manifested itself out of nowhere (still need to set up sessions with a psych to unpack but life just keeps postponing things...anyway) but also rooted itself in the element of fear of flying.
I never used to feel like this, in my teens or even mid twenties I actually enjoyed flying, now I dread it for a few reasons. One being I can't really afford business so I'm stuck on 10h flights crammed into these miniscule spaces (hell i'm even a small guy actually, short with avg build so god help those poor tall/gaunt bastards) and two now I just feel that I will die, accident statistics or overall safety of flying aside. It's like common sense is losing the battle in my mind all the time.
Hell I know that planes are built for some extreme conditons but when that turbulence hits my heart goes racing and my brains screams "this is it"...yet my brother loves to tell me the story of how I once, when younger, slept through a flight when things got so rocky that the gas masks dropped down and people started screaming in panic.
I don't really want to take meds or end up drinking excessively on the plane. Hate this shit.