Approaching holiday, but joyful expectation mingled with anxiety? You worry about how to pass the flight, and willing to pay for magic tabletochku, which plunges you into a dream until the landing?Perhaps you - aerophobia. However, as I do. For me and for thousands of other people's fear of flight became a very real medical problem. And yet I'm learning to go on a plane and put up before landing. Fellow-sufferers may be interested in my advice to victims.
Diagnose
Fear - and the natural protective reaction. He suggests that the body is all right. The brain analyzes the situation, there is a small dose of adrenaline. This is good and right.
It is important to learn to distinguish useful from fear-fear issues. If you can not lose my temper, fear is "a common, somewhat increased anxiety," or limited to ten or fifteen minutes, plus several short-term fear of flying time - this is normal. But if there is prolonged uncontrolled shaking, panic (the need to jump up and fuss), a sharp increase in heart rate, shortness of breath, if the fear grows into terror and lasts for hours - is cause for concern and the adoption of certain measures.Pre-flight
Turn to your health
Heart during panic attacks has serious load. It is therefore desirable to see a doctor to check his health, at least, do an electrocardiogram. If the heart is so-so, good start to strengthen and train. Heart attack on a plane - nasty stuff.
Nerves, too, is to treat. Advance (2-3 weeks prior to trip), it makes sense to drink away the course of soft soothing, even though the same valerian, try to eliminate the possibility of hassle.
Teach materiel
Enemy must know! Makes sense at least in general terms to represent what is happening with the aircraft.
Excessive detail is not needed, or any deviation from the drawn thee "ideal" scenario would be to provoke fear. Importantly - to understand the general principles and stages.
Useful to know the general technical characteristics of the aircraft on which to fly, statistics of accidents. For example, in preparation for a recent flight helped me a lot, such information: IL-96, which was to fly, it is worth $ 30 million. During his commercial exploitation of accidents have been recorded.
It is necessary to find out exactly how the aircraft ready to fly, what system and how often they are checked, what kind of training is the crew. In fact, at present the major airlines risk of technical failure is minimized.
Tune in for the best
Attitude - the first case. Understand why it is you are flying. How important this is. Know that by recognizing yourself that you can not overcome fear, you become a patient. Yes, your life is no flight will seem to you safely. But as far less colors in it will be! And whether it's your life? Learn to trust your fate and accept it entirely.
Create positive images and anchors. Hang in a car stuffed airplane. Arrange with your friends delicious fun picnic at the airport, watching the take off and sit down to huge passenger liners.
Personally I have a screen saver - the cabin. Like all Internet users, I subconsciously enjoy, including a computer. And this picture coincides with the joyful anticipation of the new mail messages from friends and other amenities.
Prepare a "rescue"
Well, it is unlikely you jump with a parachute. Rumor has it that paratroopers with the experience strive to push through a civilian aircraft their "system". Probably, it is really reassuring, though the practical use of such "baggage" seems to me highly dubious.
My ideal full list of what is to take on the plane and allow to relax:
* Traffic airbag will get comfortable and try to sleep.
* A small (!) Dose of spirits. As an option - a cocktail rum-cola in a plastic bottle from the Coke 0,5 l. Goal - not to get drunk senseless, but to help yourself relax.
* Soothing (this may be banal or valerian motherwort, but can be serious and antidepressants, which are prescribed by a doctor. Lovely stuff - pills for motion sickness Bonin. Personally, I am from them spiritually sleepy).
* An interesting read, necessarily life-affirming and easy to understand. If absolutely nothing is found, will go stupid glossy magazine or a collection of anecdotes about the lieutenant Rzhev. Fiction may be supplemented or partly replaced by some electronic toys such as Tetris, which creates the illusion of activity and killing time. After takeoff, you can listen to the player (of course, just plain positive music, no strain, and negative!) - Music distracts from changing the pitch turbines.
* A box of fine sour candy, a la monpase.
* If you have health problems, especially blood pressure and heart - do not forget your meds.
The list can be adjusted in accordance with their own feelings. For example, I can neither read on an airplane, or listen to music. Now I use tranquilizers (limited to one tablet) + a small dose of alcohol.Before the flight - do not sleep!
The best way to survive the flight - it's healthy sleep. It would therefore be to organize themselves lack of sleep before the flight.
Of course, if you could swallow much of hypnotics on the takeoff and wake up at the airport after landing - it would be a paradise for people like me.
Reasons why it is still not done, simple:
* In the event of an emergency landing a man under the influence of sleeping pills or a potent tranquilizer will not be able to choose from an airplane.
* Anesthesia - a piece thin. It must be true to calculate. A person under general anesthesia must be supervised by doctors, otherwise the risk of death from cardiac arrest and cessation of respiration is much higher than the most gloomy forecasts for the crash.
Do you want to pay for tabletochku?Thus, flight
Relax and enjoy
You made a decision and got on a plane. Thus, you have entrusted your life technique and people in the cockpit. Now too late to change his mind and pointless to do anything. Anything you can do for the safety of that flight - to be the perfect passenger. Silent, quiet, minimal moving about the cabin.
You - the passenger. And for the plane - just the goods. And behave in such a way as it should be loaded - just sit in his place. You agreed to share the fate of these aircraft for several hours. Himself. More talk about. Everything that happens with the airplane, more does not concern you. Close your eyes, mind your ears and just be patient.
Listen and wince with every vibration is useless - took its place you will automatically fully entrusted my life. More it does not belong to you. Over the next several hours she manages the crew commander. Everything.
Somatic
Serdtse.Skoree all fear will have an effect, the pulse was more frequent before takeoff. People suffering from panic disorders to overcome their fears, enjoy ... corny sweets. Generally, eating launches powerful ancient psychological mechanisms to cope with stress. Caramel diverts, transfers to the brain positive information prevents motion sickness and ear congestion, which creates a strong subjective changing the pitch of the turbines at each sip. In general, this medication is worth a try.
If the heart is naughty, do not forget about your meds. If you do not take them, with signs of heart attack Call the stewardess. They know what to do in such cases. But it is - only in case of emergency!
Do not wait for that flight attendants are valerian, sleeping pills, antidepressants, and a parachute. You should not create problems for people, telling how you frightened and ask the aircraft to fly more quietly.
Tremor. Learn to cope with a tremor. Take a few deep breaths. Hold your breath. Get your toes. Relax. Sit up straight, come take a back seat. Completely relax the hands, elbows on the armrests. If this helps - withstand a break of five minutes and only then ask styuardssu fetch water. Popey water or othlebni from their plastic bottles.
Stop panic
Fear, even animal terror, it's not panic. As long as you control the external manifestations of your fear, you do not create the problems and danger to others. Panic - this is not the ability to control his body, the need for active operations, traffic, screaming.
If you can not not talk about their fear of their neighbors through the cabin and flight attendants - you panic. If your hands start to frantically scour in search of support or no end to switch the fan to unfasten / wear seat belt, if you can not sit still, you begin to jump, you want to jump up and run around the cabin or hide under a chair, if you begin to moan, whine or scream - all this panic.
This is a very nasty and dangerous thing. First, you lose a human face in the eyes of others. Secondly, the panic is contagious. If the plane on the coincidence is still a couple of the same type as you, who hold only by force of will, you can trigger their collapse. A collective panic - this is a real threat to the security of your plane.
Examples where the plane makes emergency landing due to the hysterical ladies and alcoholics, brawlers, history knows. Buyanov removed from the flight and escorted to the local police (the refusal to return transportation by the airlines). It is not necessary to create ourselves and others so many problems. By the way, long-haul flights some airlines are now staffed by security staff.
Cope with the panic it is very difficult. But it is possible. Rule number one - your movement in the plane must be very slow.
No sudden movements, screams and jumps! Even if your desire is completely harmless - scratch your nose, drink a glass of water, open the book - do it slowly. Before you do anything, count to ten, make at least one deep breath.
If a special need for action not ignore their wishes, sit quietly as a mouse, and try to sleep.
I'm sure everything will turn out! In the end, if the next flight dalsya especially hard, you can always refer to specialists.
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