Fear of Flying and Treatment for it

Have you felt tizzy while going up or get tensed while when your feet are not grounded? Then you surely are suffering from Fear of Flying better known as Aerophobia when people fear of being on an aero plane or a helicopter that flies high in the sky.

Fear of Flying is very easily found phobia among people around the world as they feel sick of going high up and travel on airplanes or other flying vehicles. Fear of flying can be associated with various phobias such as agoraphobia or acrophobia. It could also be caused due to claustrophobia, which is basically fear of being in an enclosed space.

Treatments for Fear of Flying

Treatment for Fear of Flying is very necessary as you could land yourself into various problems if it continues and miss very much in your life. When you keep get afraid of flying it could take a toll on your professional as well as your personal life. Your family outings in overseas could get cancelled only due to your Fear of Flying and you could also miss important business meetings due to this.

So it’s really important to get rid of this problem and thus needed to follow the following for better results:

1.      Non-medical Techniques-

•                     Educating people about flying habits and let know about the flying realities

•                     NLP - In case of phobias, the most important technique is double dissociation. When a single dissociation is described as a visualization of self from another person’s perspective, the double dissociation is defined as visualization of self from another person’s perspective during an observation of yourself from “another” person’s perspective.

•                     Behavioural therapies are very helpful in order to lessen the fear by making the in-flight experiences virtually

•                     Cognitive Therapy could do the job well when there is no prior history of panic in the patient

•                     Hypnotherapy could also work well when it comes to let people sit in peace to their seats while on the plane.

2.      Medical Treatments-

•                     Medications such as benzodiazepines or other such relaxant drugs can help reduce the anxiety

•                     Alrazolam acts as good anxiety reducing agent when it comes to in-flight phobic situation

3.      Alternative Techniques-

•                     Massaging before the take off or self meditation helps in regaining confidence to avoid the phobia

•                     Regular meditation and exercises along with some demo in-flight training helps in getting the extra confidence

•                     Skydiving and bungee jumping helps in gaining confidence and fight against the fear of height

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Its must for all to remove the Fear of Flying from their head as this could turn fatal for them and can cause serious losses as well.