About the Fear of Flying - The Effects of Fear

It is important to remember that almost 40% of the population have a fear of flying so you are not alone, and although there may be many reasons for your fear, there is one common aim. That is to be able to fly and be in control of the feelings and actions that come with your fear of flying. That is why we encourage you to read and join the forum. This is where you can ask other fearful fliers for assistance.

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It is important for you to know that not only do you share a common fear with many others but that your fear of flying has a similar effect on many of those people. It is extraordinary that sharing a fear and its effects can have such a beneficial effect. And it is for that reason we constantly encourage you to join the forum.

As you know, the effects and consequences of this fear can be considerable. It is not uncommon for anxious flyers to worry for days weeks and sometimes months before a flight. Physical and medical symptoms often precede a flight, in particular a loss of appetite, general tightness in the stomach irritability and an inability to concentrate are common.

Often an all-pervading sense of doom and despondency set in and no amount of effort can dispel it. These are common symptoms and you should try not to exaggerate their effects on you, because they are caused by anxiety and are not in addition to it. Until you have a strategy to overcome your fear you must expect these feelings, because they are perfectly natural things to happen.

Remember that when you are able to deal with your fear of flying you will not feel the way that you do now. This is well illustrated by a lady who cancelled her seminar booking because, as she said “ If I overcome my fear then I’ll have to get on a plane, and I don’t want to do that because I hate flying” From an outsiders view this was absurd but it was her real and genuinely held belief.

Other people cannot make you to overcome your fear of flying, only you can do that but this site and our help products will change your views and will get you flying.