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jon_santana said:
There are lots of ways to get over it. When you check in for your flight, let the crew know about your fear. They’ll help you. Also, look at the statistics and see how flying is a much safer option than driving.
If that still doesn’t work, you can have your doctor prescribe you some anti-anxiety medication. I have a MAJOR fear of flying as well, and I’ve found that the only thing that has helped me has been Xanax. My docotor gave me a prescription for .5mg. I take 1 pill about an hour before the flight, and another pill about a half-hour after that. It works like a charm, and it didn’t make me drowsy or anything. I was even able to look out the window during takeoff, which has always been the worst part for me.
I completely understand what you’re going through, and I wish you the best of luck!
# 3 July 2010 at 8:53 am

ulysses said:
I recommend the “rationalist approach”. In a nutshell, you need to look at the facts and do the math. Do you know how safe air travel is? It is by a wide margin the safest transportation method available. You may believe otherwise because of the news stories you’ve heard about planes crashing. When a plane crashes, it’s big news and gets reported extensively BECAUSE it’s such a rare occurrence. But the actual truth is that hundreds of millions of people have flown billions of miles and very very few of them have been injured. In the early days of aviation, planes crashed more often but it was still rare. Today, small single-engine planes occasionally crash but it is rare. In developing countries that have inadequate safety mechanisms, planes occasionally crash but it is rare. In the United States, Japan, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, large commercial jet airliners almost never crash. In fact, do you know how many commercial passenger jet airliners have had fatal air accidents in the US in the past 7 years? Two. Two out of about a million flights. You have a MUCH better chance of getting struck by lightning on the ground than of being in a plane crash. And you have a far higher likelihood than that of dying in an accident inside your own home. Airports and large commercial airliners are among the safest places you can be. You’re even less likely to die of a heart attack because they have automatic defibrillators at the ready, along with lots of highly trained safety personnel.
So, to ease your fears of flying, you should take control by asserting the following: As long as you only fly on jet airliners (no propellers!) and you don’t fly on any Indonesian, Chinese, or Russian airlines, and you don’t fly into that one airport in Argentina where the runway is too short, then you should be fine. As far as hopping on a major US airline and flying between cities, you can rest assured that They have basically solved that whole crashing problem. And since 9/11, nobody will ever be able to hijack an airliner in the US either.
If all of this information doesn’t put your mind at ease, you can just accept that your fear is irrational, and drown it in a couple of stiff drinks before you get on the plane. Don’t overdue it, they won’t let you on the plane if you’re plastered. Because of the safety.
# 5 July 2010 at 12:02 am

haggerpotter said:
go to your family doctor and tell him/her about your anxieties – s/he will prescribe a benzodiazapine such as xanax or valium and you will be calm the entire flight
# 8 July 2010 at 3:16 am

Samantha K said:
To give you a little background, I (JP Richards) was in my second year of a debilitating fear of flying, when I discovered this powerful technique that stopped my fear of flying in it’s tracks.
You see, I had to fly because my best client bought me a ticket to Columbus, Ohio for a company meeting and training. Before I could get out of the meeting and say “no” to flying, the client had bought me a airplane ticket, and I was stuck facing my fear of flying or possibly losing my best client.
So I did what most people do as a last resort… I went to see a certified Hypnotherapist and NLP Practitioner.
And guess what?
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# 8 July 2010 at 8:11 pm

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