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You're in the right place because fear of flying is one of the most common phobias we treat. And you can now download real professional help from flying phobia experts. what is fear of flying?Fear of flying ("FOF") is an irrational fear of flying, of being or feeling out of control whilst flying, causing dread, panic and avoidance. It usually covers the whole experience of flying - with a build-up of anxiety and dread from the moment the flight is booked, peaking on the day of travel and, if the suffer can get on a plane at all, the flight is endured with extreme discomfort or panic. Arriving exhausted and tired, any relief is often temporary as thoughts turn to the return flight. Most people with FOF are normal, intelligent, well- balanced people who once flew happily but are now anxious and panicky when flying or else don't fly at all. They know the statistics about how safe air travel is but this doesn't help them. the causeFOF can be caused by a traumatic or unsettling event (such as an in-flight emergency) but it is usually created by a slow build-up of ideas, perhaps from films and the media, that flying is not the best thing to do. These ideas are then reinforced by a series of relatively minor incidents (like turbulence, a poor landing or long stacking) which normally would be okay but at the time the individual was perhaps a lot more stressed that normal (background stress levels raised by other things like tiredness or financial, work or relationship problems) and this tipped them into a mild panic attack. This builds into a phobia. safety behaviours & avoidanceSafety and avoidance strategies are used by the sufferer to reduce the danger and to control and accommodate their panic and embarrassment. Many people use medication or alcohol to endure a flight but these often leave them in no state to enjoy a holiday or do business when they arrive. Flights are avoided. Energy and time are used in planning and traveling by alternative means. Partners and families have to forego overseas holidays. Excuses are made to avoid business trips. Jobs and invitations may be turned down. People and situations may be manipulated.
Most people we treat have avoided flying for years, even decades. But there comes a point (often through family or work pressure) where they think "enough is enough". And do something about it. And get help. the cureA flying phobia is like getting a puncture: it happens to lots of people, it can happen to anyone, it makes flying very difficult or impossible, it's very frustrating, and it doesn't matter when, where or how you got it. You just know you've got it and that it can be fixed. We do this fixing using the Fast Phobia Cure. It's fast, gentle and without the scare tactics and exposure used by the older and less effective FOF treatments. In our private phobia clinics in the United Kingdom it often requires just a single pleasant treatment session for people just like you to be free of their flying phobia. And we have treated all extremes of flying phobia: from people who avoided flying completely to those who only ever got as far as the airport, to a man who passed out at check-in and a woman who persuaded the crew to let her off the plane after the doors had closed. like no other treatmentWhat makes this different from other approaches is that we are therapists who specialize in fears and phobias. So we focus on the fear because this is where you need help. So this isn't about how safe air travel is. We won't tell you how planes fly, what noises they make, or how well pilots are trained, or that they also have families they want to get back to. Because a part of you - your conscious, rational logical mind - already knows, or can guess, all of that. And it doesn't help because the other part of your mind - the unconscious, creative, imaginative part - kicks in and says "no, feel frightened". So instead of confronting this head-on with logic, reason, facts and statistics which you know doesn't work, our program works with the creative irrational part of your mind that's been driving the phobia: the part that has created all the mental disaster movies in your mind. It does this using the Fast Phobia Cure which simply changes the movies, patterns and ideas you have picked up around flying. This allows your unconscious mind to put flying back in the "safe" box where it was before. So you can fly the way you used to, without really thinking about it.
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