Phobia of airplanes
Let's discuss aerophobia which is the fear of flying. It’s widespread and affects more than 25 million adults in the U.S.! Almost 1 in 10 Americans experience this fear and discard flying almost anywhere!
Like that famous song used to say:
“Country roads, here we go…”
And that’s where the journey of aerophobes starts when they decide to travel by car!
This fear can arise after a traumatic experience, or modelling someone else's experience or symbolic representation. People begin to avoid flying, limit themselves to road travel, etc.
Plane crashes are rare, but every incident attracts tons of attention as we can horrible pictures and videos including the wreckage from the crash site.
Ways to treat fear
1. Academic
When experts explain the theory of aviation and aircraft construction. But this method does not always help to relax because natural disasters are often to blame for aviation accidents.
We all do understand that trying to get academic knowledge of aeronautical engineering is not the right way for people that work hard every day and use to choose between Netflix / interesting book and going to sleep 30 minutes earlier. Hand's full.
2. Cabin imitation
An imitation of an airplane cabin - a simulator, where a person gets used to and gets rid of a phobia by confronting his fear
Simulators of airplanes are the real training models that are mainly used for training pilots, and won’t come cheap (e.g. training in Boeing 737 Max simulator costs ~$450 per hour)
3. Mental Imagery
Classic Mental Exposure Therapy
While practising Mental Imagery people face hard challenges - the imagination of fears has a lack of immersion and the doctor won’t have control of your mind, which leads to misunderstandings of scenarios which patients are thought by doctors. Let’s be honest, sitting and trying to imagine that you are in the cabin of the aircraft won’t help you to feel in the air
4. The real-life experience of flying on airplane
Virkelig terapi … Å-å, la oss ta noen BARF-POSER … vær så snill, fest sikkerhetsbeltene! ;)
5. Virtual reality exposure therapy
People need an effective and safe tool, which will be easy to use and can be trained in the comfort of the home!
And here comes PsyTech VR, our team has developed a unique VR space that immerses a person in safe aerophobia training, assembled from 5+ levels. Learn courses on the platform, use guided phobia training in your Meta Quest headset, and get ready to forget about the fear!