Today, air travel has become a habit, but many people find it extremely disturbing. The phobia of flying can hinder any promotion work, as well as trips to visit family or friends, or sought after rental.
In a year there are about 35 accidents per 35 million flights total: watching in numbers there seems to be little to worry about. Yet the fear of flying is very common. Why? There are several reasons. The first is familiarity. The plane is not at all familiar, unlike, for example, the automobile, we make thousands of times a year. There are a series of events related to normal and means that scare novice passengers. The bell that calls the hostess, for example, often generates discomfort and fear. The same applies to the turmoil. Yet when we're on a bus, a street full of holes, we are subject to greater stress at times. Who flies frequently knows these things. Familiarize themselves with the means and scales of fear. Then there is the question of control. Once you get on a plane you must give it the ability to have control of the medium on which you are. The car instead gives a feeling, though illusory, more control. On the plane there should be entrusted to professional drivers, checks, thousands of engineers who have worked with us. The problem is that the perception of risk enters into the sphere of emotion more than 'that of rationality. The strong emotions have a role. Especially when the media talk about in depth in a plane crash: the descriptions are more dramatic than the fear rises. Obviously an important role is also played by 'imagination: People think of terrible situations, perhaps impossible in reality. Those who suffer from fear of flying, aerophobia, fears what might happen in the contact by plane, both before and during the flight, or even when you decide to travel. All the moments of the trip by plane can be lived with fear, although there are some particularly feared, for example, takeoff and landing, or certain weather conditions that most frequently give rise to anxiety (turbulence, thunderstorms, fog and wind strong). The intensity of fear can range from simple discomfort experienced before or during the flight, the absolute terror that prevents the person from the journey or, if this is impossible, it causes serious inconvenience to the crisis of acute anxiety and panic . Fear of flying may be felt even by those who have never flown, since blocking simple decision to take the plane. The
aerophobia is classified among the anxiety disorders in the group of specific phobias, which now seem to be the most common forms of anxiety. It is therefore, in terms of definition, an unreasonable fear, without apparent justification, marked and persistent, a particular object, place or situation.
Usually the fear of flying does not occur in isolation: it is often associated with other types of phobias, especially those for transportation, for the heights and enclosed spaces and can be found alone or in combination, the following symptoms: Somatic
: affecting various systems: cardiovascular (tachycardia and / or vasoconstriction periferica che provocano una sensazione di freddo alle estremità e i brividi); respiratorio (respiro corto, superficiale e frequente, la sensazione di mancanza d’aria, un senso di oppressione toracica); ghiandolare (aumento della sudorazione); gastrointestinale ( nausea e vomito , senso di gonfiore e pesantezza addominale, crampi addominali, sensazione di “farfalle nello stomaco”, diarrea ); urogenitale (aumento dello stimolo all’orinazione e della diuresi); muscolare (senso di tensione e dolore muscolare, cefalea “a casco”, rigidità e dolori alla regione cervicale, crampi addominali).
Psychic: including a general feeling of painful waiting, the fear of going crazy or dying, fear of losing control.
This set of symptoms can occur in different gradients of gravity (from the acute crisis to a permanent feeling of discomfort) and when the subject is in the situation-stimulus (for example at the airport upon check-in, when you fasten your seat belts), or some time before the trip, in some cases even a month before and only evoke thoughts or mental images that relate to aircraft, flying, heights, travel.
Obviously if the turmoil ' anxiety (which can degenerate up to the level of panic ), which however may remain present throughout the flight, increases dramatically. It 'necessary to distinguish individuals with agoraphobia with panic attacks than those with a phobia of flying, as the former are concerned by the idea of \u200b\u200bbeing sick while they are locked in' plane while the latter are more concerned by the idea of \u200b\u200ba fall or crash.
Fear of flying can occur at any time of life, sometimes abruptly, most often in a piecemeal manner. In some cases there are, in recent or remote history of a person, events that can be traced to the onset of symptoms, or which, if nothing else, the subject himself refers as a cause or event triggering fear. In the case of an unexpected event, there is often a "traumatic" who is elected to the triggering event unique and absolute. As in any other case of more or less sudden onset of phobic symptoms the cause is never detectable in a single situation or event: the more often we witness a complex chain of circumstances which, variously intertwined with the personality of the subject and their emotional experiences, evolve over time to lead, often through an event particular that acts as a trigger, the manifestation of distress in its fullness.
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