re: Southwest Airlines flight from Denver forced to divert after engine cowling rips off

I have to fly frequently for work and pleasure. I have suffered from flight-related anxiety for decades. Its severity fluctuates based on a number of arbitrary factors. When I have particularly acute episodes, I take klonopin. What you must recall is that your anxiety is fundamentally irrational. Commercial airline crashes do happen, but they are extraordinarily improbable. Imagine in your minds eye all of the airliners racing across the globe right now, at this very instant. Will they all crash? No. Will even one? Highly, extremely, meteorically unlikely. Now of all those planes safely flying all over the globe today, will yours be the one to crash? Vanishingly improbable. You could fly every day for your entire life and never come close to a fatal incident. You will experience psychological discomfort, but your plane will land safely and you will move on with your life.