Odie;1148289 wrote: I won't go in a airplane, nope, won't do that and not gonna go in one to get over my fears..........enclosed places......not for Odie!
but you are right, the only way to get over fears and phobias is to face them.....worked for me years and years ago with thunderstorms.
worse part was when my shrink put headphones on me and I listened to several of them.:-5:-5
best part, going outside repeatedly in them, yup, got soaking wet, but it worked.
Aw hun that is a shame, I remember feeling that way too I have had to fly all my life my parents forced me from an early age. I was always a wreck. In my 40s I went to the doctor, she told me my fear was an unreasonable fear, as in there was no cause for it as nothing traumatic happened to me to cause the fear and she gave me these little pills, they numbed my brain and she told me to use them as long as I needed.... well I am not a pill fan but tried them for a couple trips then one day I had to fly on a 12 hour trip and decided no more pills because I had my daughters with me and I had to have my wits with me. Well it worked I managed it was great. The next big flight I took was an 8 hour (the whole 8 hours in the plane this time) to the UK alone all by me self... it was LIBERATING and I am cured.
Faced my fear I did I did, that and going into a crowd alone, going to a strange place, meeting strange/new people all in one shot.
Again it was amazing.
