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I flown a lot of places, don't mind take off or landing, but have such an irrational fear that there will be a catastrophic failure mid flight. Have to fly again in a month and am already crapping myself. I don't think I'd mind if I was by myself, but I have my family with me and the thought of something happening to them...

Anyway, need help with my fears which have caused me to have massive massive panic attacks in the past.
Help please!!!
 

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Plugger35 said:
I find if I watch a few Air Crash Investigation episodes before a flight it helps settle my nerves.
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Funnily enough that is the very show that fascinated and destroyed me
 
The Passenger said:
Hurtling around in a steel cage at 1000km/h whilst 40,000 feet in the air... What could possibly go wrong?
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**** all, don't be a prick and put fear into his mind. There is literally more chance of you being killed in the drive on the way to the airport than there is while you are up in the air.
 
spartanwa said:
I flown a lot of places, don't mind take off or landing, but have such an irrational fear that there will be a catastrophic failure mid flight. Have to fly again in a month and am already crapping myself. I don't think I'd mind if I was by myself, but I have my family with me and the thought of something happening to them...

Anyway, need help with my fears which have caused me to have massive massive panic attacks in the past.
Help please!!!
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Read this, it will help.

http://www.bigfooty.com/forum/threa...h-239-on-board.1051663/page-226#post-36591848
 
I have the same kinda thing. Love take off and landing, enjoy the speed and rush and am completely relaxed. But I'll be taking 5 flights within a couple of weeks next month between Singapore, Thailand and Cambodia... Including 2 air Asia flights.. And a scoot. Then after that flights over the Middle East... Which isn't so worrying, strangely.

I don't fear fying, but I fear flying in Asia all of a sudden. Does that make me an avionasiaphobe?
 
Make use of the airport bar and then the in flight service for a couple of quiet ones....just enough to take the edge off and get to the "aaah, life's good!" stage.

Fly at night so there's at least a chance you'll be asleep if something goes down and you won't know much about it.

If something did happen, odds are it will be over pretty damn quick.

Otherwise.....there's really nothing you can do except nut up and get on there. Must be a bit difficult with the family if you have to act all tough and brave and "no no sweetie, nothing's gonna go wrong!" to everyone else while you're shitting yourself......
 
You could look at a course such as
http://www.fearlessflyers.com.au
but they aren't cheap.

I'd be careful about alcohol or anti anxiety medication combined with altitude as these can be a cocktail for trouble.

I'd probably recommend improving your anti stress and relaxation techniques.
 

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MisterMarcus said:
Make use of the airport bar and then the in flight service for a couple of quiet ones....just enough to take the edge off and get to the "aaah, life's good!" stage.

Fly at night so there's at least a chance you'll be asleep if something goes down and you won't know much about it.

If something did happen, odds are it will be over pretty damn quick.

Otherwise.....there's really nothing you can do except nut up and get on there. Must be a bit difficult with the family if you have to act all tough and brave and "no no sweetie, nothing's gonna go wrong!" to everyone else while you're shitting yourself......
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This, drinking piss has gotten me over a fear of flying for sure.
 
spartanwa said:
Funnily enough that is the very show that fascinated and destroyed me
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Then you'll know that there needs to be a series of issues that causes a plane to crash.
You're really got nothing to worry about.

But if you're that anxious about flying, I'd go and speak to a doctor about it and they might be able to prescribe something for you.
 
http://gizmodo.com/this-app-tells-you-the-probability-of-your-plane-crashi-1684405123
This may help some.
'Rational expectations' is a term commonly thrown around by economists trying to work out why people do stuff. It's based on the idea that individuals weigh up the pros and cons of a certain action, and use that to make a decision. It's one of the fundamental underpinnings of a free market economic model, but as this app proves in miniature, it's also bullshit.

'Am I Going Down' is a pretty simple app: given your departure, destination, airline and aircraft of choice, it spits out the odds of your plane turning into a fiery wreck. It's meant to put nervous fliers at ease, thanks to the astronomic odds (one in 5.4 million for my last transatlantic flight) of crashing.

The app, built by London-based Vanilla Pixel, uses data from accident archives and flight records from the NTSA and International Civil Aviation Organization, among others. The statistical method seems sound, although there's no accounting for things like rogue state-backed separatists with surface-to-air missiles.

More than just being a $0.99 novelty, though, 'Am I Going Down' is a good case study in human irrationality. Most nervous flyers are probably dimly aware that they're at far greater risk driving or walking or shovelling snow, but there's something emotionally terrifying about plane crashes that captures our imagination.

Now we just need to make a probability app for the anti-vaxxers.
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spartanwa said:
I flown a lot of places, don't mind take off or landing, but have such an irrational fear that there will be a catastrophic failure mid flight. Have to fly again in a month and am already crapping myself. I don't think I'd mind if I was by myself, but I have my family with me and the thought of something happening to them...

Anyway, need help with my fears which have caused me to have massive massive panic attacks in the past.
Help please!!!
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Check some stats - you are way way more likely to die in a car crash.
 
Ask if you can sit in with the pilots and take control.
You always feel safer when in control.
 

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Just remember most incidents occur in the first 10 minutes and the last 5 minutes of a flight. Having said this, the Air Asia and Air France tragedies happened mid flight. So yeah, you are pretty much stuffed lol.
 
SOME helpful comments, thanks.
 
Yeah it has been said, but focussing on the numbers might help. Try to find out how many planes are in the sky at any one time, how many take off and land each day of the year, etc - and you will see that your flight is just another one of those.

When on the plane, if it shakes or you hear a funny noise, just think of the last time you landed, or of all the planes that land every minute of the day throughout the world without a problem.

Finally, anxiety/stress is often also a product of what you have control over and whether you have done all you can - think of studying for an exam. In a flight, once on board you have no control. Nothing you do can change the odds of a crash so sit back and relax. In the super unlikely event of a catastrophe what could you have done about it anyway? Worrying cannot help here like it can in other situations.
 

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