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About 20/20



As I told you last week, ABC News 20/20 is working on a story about flying. They had expected to find someone who will  sit only in a certain place on the plane. That didn't happen.



Many of you responded, but they are still looking for someone who must sit in a certain plane on the plane. If that is you, please email Helaine.Tabacoff@abc.com and give her your phone number so she can get back to you.



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Patrick As Aviator Non Grata



In this week's column, Patrick tells us about being snubbed. He believes Airbus left him off the list when it invited the media to fly the A-380. Such is the cost of saying unkind things about the mammoth.



Patrick's column is at this link.



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Feel Like A Big Shot When Driving Your SUV?



Look who's going to be laughing at you? The guy who sucks in enough money from $100 a barrel oil to have an Airbus A380 for a private jet. The world's 13th-riches man, Prince Walid bin Talal of Saudi Arabia, has one on order to be delivered in 2010.



At 6,400 square feet, the prince's private jet will be bigger than a lot of dot-com McMansion. At least Hummer-heads can strut until then . . . unless the price for the prince's oil rises to $200 a barrel.



Not yet disgusted enough? Read the whole story at this link.



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While On The Subject Of Cars . . .



Hi Tom,

 

I bought your DVD sets about a year ago -- and they tremendously helped me overcome a longstanding fear of flying.  It never prevented me from taking trips. It just made the trips white knuckled and unpleasant.  Anyway, since your great DVD's I have flown anxiety free for almost a year. 



A month ago, police were chasing a car thief at speeds up to 115 mph in Charlotte North Carolina for 40 minutes.  The thief's truck hit my minivan and sent me spinning into oncoming traffic where I was hit by a city bus.  Lucky for me, I was hit in the rear as both the middle and third row of my van was demolished. If I had been hit head on, I would not be here typing this note to you. 



It's a great example of how you think you are "in control" and safer driving than flying -- but in actuality driving is so much more dangerous.  I experienced it first hand.  A month later, I still have some residual anxiety when driving and don't really feel very safe on Charlotte streets -- worried I'll end up with some PTSD and am trying to actively talk myself down. 



A month from now I am taking a 5 hour flight to visit my daughter in LA.  As I said my flights since your program have been amazingly worry/anxiety free -- but now I am concerned that since my baseline anxiety is increased post accident, that I will be back to square one with anxiety when I fly.  What do you think?  Any suggestions?  I plan to redo the Anxiety DVD's that I purchased from you. Is there anything else you would recommend?

 

Thanks again for all the good work that you do!



My Thoughts On This



I think she is going to do fine. There is physical safety, and there is emotional safety. It is smart not to confuse the two type, and she doesn't. It is all too easy to believe that if we feel afraid, it means we are in danger. That's not necessarily so. And likewise, it is easy to feel safe when not safe, as this story shows. She felt safe as she drove her minivan, unaware there was a car chase headed her way.



According to research by Sivak and Flannagan published in the January-February 2003 issue American Scientist (click here to read), the average flight is 694 miles. To drive that distance is approximately 65 times as risky as flying.



Put another way, when you drive 10.8 miles on a rural Interstate highway, you have the same risk as taking a flight of any length, even New York to Tokyo!



As skillful as any of us are, there are things -- like those expressed in the email above -- which we can't control.  We are physically safer in the air, but we can't take advantage of that far greater physical safety unless we can be guaranteed of solid emotional safety when flying.



What About The Post Traumatic Stress Disorder A Possibility?



I think not. PTSD develops when there is an experience which overwhelms the person's ability to maintain a sense of identity during the episode. If an experience is recorded into memory, but no experiencer for that experience is part of the recording, then flashbacks can take place. Flashbacks are intrusive, and -- though they are a memory of an event -- without a sense of ones self as the experiencer of the event at a certain place and time -- the flashback seems as if it is taking place presently.



Another thing, similar to PTSD, can cause a problem. If we believe we have everything under control, and believe nothing can happen to us, when something does go terribly wrong, it shatters our confidence to the point that we may be unable to go about living as we did before.



It takes a certain amount of built-in ability to remain calm under fire to deal with life. When this is not built-in, people try to boost their ability to keep anxiety at bay by maintaining a fantasy that they are invincible. This is seen frequently in young boys, as they identify with superheros.



My Friend Charlie



When I was a young boy, my friend Charlie put on a Superman cape and jumped off the roof of the garage at his home. He broke both legs. Years later, when working with children at the Child Guidance Clinic in Bridgeport, Connecticut, a young client revealed that he had thought about jumping from a second floor apartment window in order to test his flying skills. I told him about Charlie, thinking that would give him second thoughts about trying that in the future. Instead, he explained, "Of course. He only had a cape -- he didn't have the whole outfit!"



When our false belief that we are safe (by whatever reason we believe that) is shattered, something like PTSD takes place. There are no true flashbacks, but the moment when our false belief-system was destroyed is etched in the mind, and that etching can be pointed to as a reason to take no risk ever again. But the real reason for not taking risk is, there is not enough built-in -- not that the illusion is shattered -- to function.



Calming Can Be Built In



We now know how to build calming in. It is no longer necessary to let a bad moment -- including a bad flight -- stand in the way of having a life. Sure, it is easy to take the position that a bad flight was a brush with death (it wasn't) and therefore one will never risk flying again.



If one doesn't have the internal calming to take the incredibly small risk of a flight, one must either stay at home, or take the far, far greater physical risk on the highway.



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