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Anyone else have them?
Or perhaps the ques**tion should be "Which ones do you have?" as it's pretty much definite we all have them however badly or not they effect us and our day to day life.
To see someone else with one which you don't have is funny - but not to the person who has the fear.
Friday night at 10-35pm I des**troyed my main one - the fear of flying.
Well not the fear of flying as such I love flying itself, the feeling of freedom and the sights and sounds of being 7 miles or so above ground is an awesome experience but the fear of not being in control and relying on the skills of someone else who you don't know and being confined in a small space with over 200+ people in there with me used to terrify the crap out of me.
But about 6 weeks ago I decided to confront my fears and booked a holiday to Tenerife levaing a week las**t Friday. To tell you the truth my hand was forced - next June I'm getting married and of course it will entail a honeymoon abroad which will involve flying and I do not want to be worrying about it for the next 8 months so this holiday was a "tes**ter" for then and if I could “hack it”.
I firs**t flew in 1997 aged 17 to Toronto and it was no problem - a bit of boredom and agitation towards the end of the flight but nothing else. Greece for 3 years from 1999 - 2001 no probs also.
But in December 2002 I flew to Eurodisney for a “relaxing” break before Chris**tmas. The pas**t year I’d had a problem with my “image” and became obsessed with how people saw “me” and on the morning we left I woke up at about 8am and felt like death.
I was literally shaking and broke into a cold sweat and couldn’t breathe and collapsed onto my bed feeling like I was dying – later I realised it was down to a bad panic attack but at the time I was terrified.
I managed to get to Paris and onto Eurodisney but all through the holiday I was terrified of the flight home.
The flight home was bad but I managed it somehow and for nearly the las**t 4 years I’ve avoided flying.
Until las**t Friday.
I sort of decided “What will be will be”. “Do I let it ruin my life or confront it?”
I decided to confront it. If I re – experience my feelings back in 2002 so what? It’s not likely and if it happens so what?
Las**t Friday I went to work for ½ day and after went to Eas**t Midlands Airport for a 4 hour flight to Tenerife. That day I had a “bad attitude” – come on fear do your wors**t I don’t give a sh*t take me on and I’ll win.
And I did.
At 17-35 we took off and at 21-40 I was in the arrivals terminal at Tenerife Sur waiting for my cases.
My wors**t fears were imagined in my head and in reality were unfounded. I was imagining bad things which were unlikely to happen and causing myself unnecessary anxiety over nothing.
So do you worry over s**tupid things and how badly do you let them effect your day to day life? Do you try and ignore them or let them play on your mind and try and “solve” them in your head?
My only regret is not confronting my fear earlier and spending the las**t 4 years being afraid of flying. If you confront these irrational fears you see they are jus**t that – irrational and only exis**t in your mind and the sooner you confront them and do the opposite of what they are telling you (ie telling me not to fly as it will be jus**t like Eurodisney all over again) they will literally vanish and free you of the fear and anxiety holding you back.
Or perhaps the ques**tion should be "Which ones do you have?" as it's pretty much definite we all have them however badly or not they effect us and our day to day life.
To see someone else with one which you don't have is funny - but not to the person who has the fear.
Friday night at 10-35pm I des**troyed my main one - the fear of flying.
Well not the fear of flying as such I love flying itself, the feeling of freedom and the sights and sounds of being 7 miles or so above ground is an awesome experience but the fear of not being in control and relying on the skills of someone else who you don't know and being confined in a small space with over 200+ people in there with me used to terrify the crap out of me.
But about 6 weeks ago I decided to confront my fears and booked a holiday to Tenerife levaing a week las**t Friday. To tell you the truth my hand was forced - next June I'm getting married and of course it will entail a honeymoon abroad which will involve flying and I do not want to be worrying about it for the next 8 months so this holiday was a "tes**ter" for then and if I could “hack it”.
I firs**t flew in 1997 aged 17 to Toronto and it was no problem - a bit of boredom and agitation towards the end of the flight but nothing else. Greece for 3 years from 1999 - 2001 no probs also.
But in December 2002 I flew to Eurodisney for a “relaxing” break before Chris**tmas. The pas**t year I’d had a problem with my “image” and became obsessed with how people saw “me” and on the morning we left I woke up at about 8am and felt like death.
I was literally shaking and broke into a cold sweat and couldn’t breathe and collapsed onto my bed feeling like I was dying – later I realised it was down to a bad panic attack but at the time I was terrified.
I managed to get to Paris and onto Eurodisney but all through the holiday I was terrified of the flight home.
The flight home was bad but I managed it somehow and for nearly the las**t 4 years I’ve avoided flying.
Until las**t Friday.
I sort of decided “What will be will be”. “Do I let it ruin my life or confront it?”
I decided to confront it. If I re – experience my feelings back in 2002 so what? It’s not likely and if it happens so what?
Las**t Friday I went to work for ½ day and after went to Eas**t Midlands Airport for a 4 hour flight to Tenerife. That day I had a “bad attitude” – come on fear do your wors**t I don’t give a sh*t take me on and I’ll win.
And I did.
At 17-35 we took off and at 21-40 I was in the arrivals terminal at Tenerife Sur waiting for my cases.
My wors**t fears were imagined in my head and in reality were unfounded. I was imagining bad things which were unlikely to happen and causing myself unnecessary anxiety over nothing.
So do you worry over s**tupid things and how badly do you let them effect your day to day life? Do you try and ignore them or let them play on your mind and try and “solve” them in your head?
My only regret is not confronting my fear earlier and spending the las**t 4 years being afraid of flying. If you confront these irrational fears you see they are jus**t that – irrational and only exis**t in your mind and the sooner you confront them and do the opposite of what they are telling you (ie telling me not to fly as it will be jus**t like Eurodisney all over again) they will literally vanish and free you of the fear and anxiety holding you back.
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Death, in any form, is something I fear greatly, particuarly dying alone and/or in great pain, but I guess those aren't entirely irrational as they're both rather unpleasant things. I didn't like heights much when I was younger, but I'm now thankfully over that... otherwise, I guess the main fear I have is of outright failure.
Drowning is what I fear most in the way of death. when i die, I don't want it to be by drowning. Don't know why - i think it's because of the slowness and your inability to breathe and how you feel it all as you slip away that scares me.
Aye come to think of it fear of falling in water and drowning isn't irrational either.
Irrational fears should really only be fears of things that cannot harm you.
Irrational fears should really only be fears of things that cannot harm you.
Borat wrote:
> falling off the back of a luxury ship, at night, and no-one
> knows you fell ... you just watch the lights disappear into the
> distance, knowing you can scream as loud and as long as you
> want, but no-one will hear ...
That won't be an issue in five year's time. The technology already exists for a boat to 'know' that you're no longer aboard, and where you are instead, instantly alerting crew.
Not the point of the debate, but just throwing that in there.
> falling off the back of a luxury ship, at night, and no-one
> knows you fell ... you just watch the lights disappear into the
> distance, knowing you can scream as loud and as long as you
> want, but no-one will hear ...
That won't be an issue in five year's time. The technology already exists for a boat to 'know' that you're no longer aboard, and where you are instead, instantly alerting crew.
Not the point of the debate, but just throwing that in there.
The fear of flying isn't really irrational. I mean, going up many thousands of feet in a tube with wings ... one serious malfunction and #&!%*@#!
I can swim but I wouldn't like to try it in the middle of the ocean :O ... one of my worst fears that ... the one about falling off the back of a luxury ship, at night, and no-one knows you fell ... you just watch the lights disappear into the distance, knowing you can scream as loud and as long as you want, but no-one will hear ...
Sorry, that's a bit deep and disturbing ... it's just one particular nightmare I had that stuck with me ...
Sorry, that's a bit deep and disturbing ... it's just one particular nightmare I had that stuck with me ...
Corazon wrote:
> Boats dont bother me as i know i can swim if it sinks. I lack
> wings though.
I cant swim :P
I have wings though :P
> Boats dont bother me as i know i can swim if it sinks. I lack
> wings though.
I cant swim :P
I have wings though :P
Seraphim wrote:
> I have a fear of flying, i think thats more to do with watching
> the news too much. As i have with going on a ferry.
Boats dont bother me as i know i can swim if it sinks. I lack wings though.
> I have a fear of flying, i think thats more to do with watching
> the news too much. As i have with going on a ferry.
Boats dont bother me as i know i can swim if it sinks. I lack wings though.
I think the fear of flying in most people is caused by the thought that if the plane "breaks down" you're screwed but that's not the case.
On one of Sky's documentary channels there was a documentary about a plane that lost all it's fuel and the englines cut out but the pilots managed to glide it into an airport to safety.
Still I bet the passengers were bricking it!
On one of Sky's documentary channels there was a documentary about a plane that lost all it's fuel and the englines cut out but the pilots managed to glide it into an airport to safety.
Still I bet the passengers were bricking it!
I have a fear of flying, i think thats more to do with watching the news too much. As i have with going on a ferry.
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