Psycho-Babble Term Needed

[Weird Harold]

Anybody know the proper term for a fear of flying? I know acrophobia isn't it, because I suffer from that and have no problem flying.

 

[Bigdog]

WH, the term is aviophobia or aviatophobia. For all your phobia needs, check out www.phobialist.com. Makes for some interesting reading.

bigdog

 

[Weird Harold]

Thanks, the link will be helpful in future.

 

[Dixon Carter Lee]

I'm not afraid of flying. I'm afraid of crashing. What's that called? "Smithereensaphobia" I think.

 

[Weird Harold]

I know what you mean DCL. "It ain't the fall what kills ya. It's that sudden stop at the bottom."

 

[Laurel]

That's kinda what my dad used to say when I'd complain about his fast driving: "It's not the speed that's the killer, my dear - it's the sudden deceleration."

I have Smithereensaphobia in a big way. I'm the worst flyer. Manu has to hold my hand during takeoff and landing, and I have to sleep the whole trip so that I don't think about the fact that I'm in a tin can many miles above the ground. They should hand out tranquilizers or something, like the kind they used to slip B.A. on "The A Team".

 

[Vixen]

Ah, Laurel, thanks for the reminder! I loved A Team and had forgotten about BA and planes. Now I have the theme song rolling around in my brain. Nice change from the voices, though, thanks ;-)

 

[Pooks]

Weird Harold,

Why the question if you're not scared of flying? Just asking for interest sake.

DCL, I agree with you. Flying is not dangerous, but forcing a few feet of human body into a couple of inches of human body when stopping suddenly sure is unhealthy.

Laurel, I know a lot of people that is not comfy with flying, but travelling on commercial air carriers is the safest mode of travel today. Walking or driving is more dangerous. This has been scientifically proven. I'll try and find the figures for you.

Pooks

 

[Weird Harold]

it's called researching the facts for a story

Weird Harold,

Why the question if you're not scared of flying? Just asking for interest sake.

I'm not, but a character in a story is.

 

[sweetnpetite]

good link contained herin

 

[shereads]

aerophobia

 

[SeaCat]

Hmmmmm, do they have fear of reading in there? (Maybe a fear of the written word?) Or how about a fear of erotica? (Other than religeos fanatacism of course.)

Laurel,
Flying isn't that dangerouse, it just seems unatural. Think about how dangerous trains are. Do you know how easy it is to derail a train traveling at speed? That one would give me a case of the Heebie Jeebies if I let it.

Cat

 

[brightlyiburn]

Hmmmmm, do they have fear of reading in there? (Maybe a fear of the written word?) Or how about a fear of erotica? (Other than religeos fanatacism of course.)

Laurel,
Flying isn't that dangerouse, it just seems unatural. Think about how dangerous trains are. Do you know how easy it is to derail a train traveling at speed? That one would give me a case of the Heebie Jeebies if I let it.

Cat

No, flying isn't dangerous, not at all.
If we were meant to fly, the powers that be would have given us wings. Any other means besides a giant hunk of metal.

 

[SeaCat]

No, flying isn't dangerous, not at all.
If we were meant to fly, the powers that be would have given us wings. Any other means besides a giant hunk of metal.

And people used to look at me funny when I walked onto a plane with a Parachute as carry on baggage. (Actually it wasn't to jump from that particular plane, it was to keep the damned thing from getting stolen while I was going to where I was planning on jumping.)

When people would ask me why I would willingly jump from a perfectly good airplane I would answer with a quote I read many years ago. "I'll stop jumping from perfectly good airplanes when they start making perfectly good airplanes."

Cat

 

[shereads]

Ahem. Cat & Brightly: you're having a 5-year-old conversation.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who fell for it.

 

[lucky-E-leven]

Anglophobia- Fear of England or English culture, etc.

 

[SeaCat]

Ahem. Cat & Brightly: you're having a 5-year-old conversation.

I'm glad I'm not the only one who fell for it.

Oooppppsssss,
Oh well, so it's a long conversation.

Cat