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Fear of the Plane.
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What do doctors prescribe to calm people down on planes?
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if you're actually shitting-your-pants terrified, they might prescribe you something like valium or beta-blockers, but most doctors are quite reluctant to do this in case you have a bad reaction on the plane and they can't get you any medical attention.
Most GP's are loath to give out Benzo's anymore. But if they do you'll either get a low dose of temazepan or diazepan (valium).
The latter is the nicer drug, the first one makes you feel shite.
Secondly do not try and drink to remove your nerves, I've drunk heavily on a long haul flight before and it was ugly, I managed to get about 1 hours sleep and woke up with the worst hang over I ever have had.
Then they served us breakfast of those rubber omlets and I was very nearly sick.
Grim.
Planes are safe compared to other forms of transport. It's just that when they do crash, they do so spectacularly, often killing a hundred or more people in a spectacular fireball.
I think it's because people percieve flying through the air in several tons of aircraft at 500 mph at 30,000 feet to be dangerous. And people percieve that because it's something we only do occasionally, and it's unfamiliar to us (ie more unfamiliar than using a car or bus), that it must somehow be more dangerous.
Personally, I like flying (as long as it's no more than about 2-3 hours, any more is a chore). It's funny watching the nervous people. A sort of entertainment.
:yuck: Plane food! Hope you get what u need capacity!
I think it's words like that that are making him afraid. He's asking for help, not to be reminded of the dangers!
It's at the point where I'm not even going on holiday for myself but for other people. I don't want to go on holiday and the idea of a plane seems to have taken the fun away from it.
Put it into perspective.
I read somewhere if you drove the same amount of miles as you did fly, then you're 10 times more likely to die in a plane crash. But don't quote me
Capacity: you may want to try a hypnotherapist, doesn't always work but hey what's the worst that could happen? I see planes as wonderful things, I just wish there was an observation deck or something because the windows are terribly small and they're terribly cramped.
Note to self: fly 1st class one day
Indeed.
It's hitting the ground which kills you
I think it's the other way around.
If you drove ten thousand miles, or flew ten thousand miles (for example) your chances of dying in the car are ten times higher than in the aeroplane.
I was on a flight to Spain once and the bloke next to a mate and me was looking scared. So we ended up having this load conversation about crashing, and the way that the plane would split up on landing.
He looked like he was going to have a heart attack.
Evil, yet funny at the same time.
god...its the SMELL of plane food that makes me gag! Early morning is the worst...rubber cooked mushrooms :yuck: