Hello All,
I am currently in Hungary for 6 days on holiday visiting my girlfriends family and I went on a plane for the first time in 15 years this Tuesday.
I was very nervous about flying as I HATE rides and things that mess with my balance and sense of control and being 35000 feet in the air made me feel terrified. Upon take off the plane changed direction and the feeling of the motion gave me a huge panic attack which lasted the whole of the flight. Landing was very much the same with the feeling of the plane turning to land on the runway but the landing itself didn't bother me as it does for many others. I can only explain this feeling as a vertigo when the plane turns which sends me into panic mode.
As I looked around the plane everyone seemed very calm even some on their laptops and sleeping whilst I was freaking out from the feeling of dropping and sinking, literally having a full blown panic attack next to my girlfriend. The whole flight I was just worried about the imbalance.
How can I deal with this as I need to take the 2 hour flight home back to the UK this coming Tuesday and I really want to be able to deal with it better and maybe even enjoy it.