Please help alleviate my flying phobia )-:

[mosschops30]

Its that time of year, where I cant sleep, feel I am doomed and ready for death.
Yes I am going on a 2 hour flight

Any help or advice gratefully received, ideas of how to stop obsessing about things I have seen on Air Crash Investigation, visions of mid-air collisions, useless engineers, faulty wiring.

Would love to get to the airport and feel excited rather than terrified

There's not a lot you can do about it once you're up there! Find being resigned to being out of control of my fate quite relaxing.

Hypnosis?
Bach Rescue Remedy?
Something prescribed by the GP?
Go to one of those sessions they run at some airports - they're aimed at getting you over the fear of flying and end in a short flight for those who are up for it! (no personal experience but saw it on TV)

good luck

Mosschops30
sorry- if you find something to help let me know
not been abroad since you know when!

have tried:

diazepam
alcohol
CBT
Hypnosis
Fear of flying course

none of these things work for me, so I just need a way of putting things out of my mind, not being filled with dread and enjoying the start to my holiday

When it's time to go,it's time to go,wherever you are.
Go with that thought.

go for the logical approach - check the safety stats - you're probably about 1000x more likely to die in a car on the way to the airport than flying from it. safest form of transport and all that. Avoid wathcing Lost..sorry, didn't mean to be flippant..
Hope you get it sorted anyway.

i can cope with dying, its the falling 35,000 until I die that I dont like !!!!

..don't think you'd survive that long to realise anything, would be fairly quick in a plane.

You'd be dea before you fell mossy.
I watched a terrifying documentary about a plane,the entire upper section of which ripped clean away mid air,the night before I flew home last saturday!

Actually,I spent the whole month away watching harrowing documentaries about either transplants or plane crashes.

oh i do hope so, dont like the idea of falling all that way strapped into my bloody chair

moondog i do it all the time, seem to enjoy terrorising myself

I saw one therapy for dealing with phobias that aimed to make them boring.

Used on agrophobia sufferers, it concentrated the sorts of things they find distressing into a sort of personalised video nasty.

You then watch the video over and over again, until it gets dull. As I understand it, the idea is that poeple can get used to pretty much anything, and you may recall that during WWII mental illness, including paranoia went down a vast amount. Perhpas knowing for an absolute fact that millions of people want you dead and are trying to get you, is easier to cope with than the suspicion.

Thus if all else fails, I'd be tempted to try compiling a tape of "worlds most gruesome crashes" clips from TV, then just leave it on as background noise.