A bad flight that another person might forget about, they don’t forget about; it becomes carved in stone, and when, a week later, they think about getting on an airplane, they go right into a panic attack. Nervous Flyers Bunn More Quotes by Nervous Flyers Bunn More Quotes From Nervous Flyers Bunn I had a male client who said he had a fear of flying for seven years, every time he flew he was totally miserable, except for one time when, before he came back from a business trip, he hooked up with someone. He said they didn’t get any sleep. They made love all night long and he dragged himself out of bed onto the airplane and had a perfectly anxiety-free flight. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines If a person is chronically anxious, it doesn’t take much serotonin for them to consolidate memory, it happens really fast. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines What happens in turbulence [with anxious people] is enough stress hormones release that a person has trouble telling the difference between reality and imagination, so they start imagining the plane’s falling out of the sky. They really believe they’re about to die. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines When something happens to you, if you don’t consolidate the memory, you don’t remember it, when some people get on a plane and have a turbulent flight, they forget about it [afterwards]. And it’s not that they try to forget about it. They just don’t consolidate that memory. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines You need to think about those things ahead of time so the links are established and it happens automatically when you’re on a plane, once we find [what produces] oxytocin, we can just keep it going through the whole flight. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines Oxytocin is produced during foreplay when the chemistry is right between two people. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines Anybody who’s got anxiety in their lives when they get on a plane is more likely to produce post-traumatic stress. Nervous Flyers Bunn latest-headlines
