re: My Body Has Defeated Me. It's Over.

you don't have anxiety of flying you have referred anxiety because that attack where your throat got too dry happened on a flight. You are actually anxious that the same thing may happen again. And you were on a plane when it happened. So your brain now associates flights with that same attack. If it would have happened on a train or on a bridge you would associate it with that.

Man ......QUIT FLYING........


But I’m beginning to smell A rat....... look dude.. there are times I’m on the floor withering in pain, and yes I whimper and sob because it hurts so bad..... but there is nothing worse than A QUITTER.............

Get out of the house every day. Look up hiking trails near you and get on them. Bring meds, in case you need them and take a walk in nature.

Dude Im not trying to be a dick but you have to rid yourself of the victim mentality.

Id suggest working out. You'll feel great and when you physically see a difference, your attitude and self-perception will change.




Id also suggest smashing as much box as possible, cause when has that not worked?

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Interesting. Wish my therapist would've brought up that concept. She never did.

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In defense of your therapist she didn't have a handful of message board posts on which to base her diagnosis.

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nteresting. Wish my therapist would've brought up that concept. She never did.

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Find a new one.

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So you think my brain has just screwed with me because it associates flying now with asthma and potential death? So how do I change it? How do I make my brain realize flying isn't going to kill me?

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Stop talking about your brain as if it's not you. You might not be able to control everything it does, but you can control a lot of it. Many people need professional help to learn to do this. Find people who help you.

You come on here basically not thinking it’s worth it to be alive, yet all you seem to talk about is flying.... if you are flying all these places you must NOT be in that bad of help... sorry to ask but are you depressed about not being able to fly, or are you really as sick as you say?????

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Didn't it only happen once, and the doc suggested a plausible cause? Why do you think this is some new chronic affliction of yours?

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Yes but now I feel like since my anxiety associates flying with potential death it gets worried when I get on a flight. So that automatically activates the anxiety. I will say with the Prednisone I felt pretty much fine on a flight though I still worry about what would happen if I happened "again". I mean there's not much they can do to save you on a flight, especially when you're over oceans.

I think mentally what I need to do is just accept that I can't live in fear. If I die on a flight I die on a flight. I wouldn't be the first person to die on a flight. But I can't just not fly.

This.......

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You come on here basically not thinking it’s worth it to be alive, yet all you seem to talk about is flying.... if you are flying all these places you must NOT be in that bad of help... sorry to ask but are you depressed about not being able to fly, or are you really as sick as you say?????

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I am depressed about both but the flying aspect is what really put my depression into overdrive the last few years. As in being at least somewhat depressed the majority of the time.

To recap I suffer from the following things:
High Blood Pressure (under control through medication)
Eosinophillic Asthma
Allergies
Depression
Anxiety
GERD
Hemorrhoids

So I think its both my physical ailments and what I think they mean for my life which is what causes me to be depressed. And I don't doubt the depression makes them worse. They get to essentially tag team me.