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    Crises de panique

    Le piège du sciage et du soudage

    Rédigé par Alex Gervash, pilote professionnel (31 ans d'expérience) et spécialiste de la peur de l'avion (18 ans d'expérience, plus de 16 000 cas traités)

    Cette contradiction épuisante qui consiste à essayer de se calmer tout en alimentant sa peur avec des pensées catastrophiques à chaque vol.

    Le piège du sciage et du soudage

    Why You Exhaust Yourself During Flights

    What does a fearful flier actually do during a flight? You are usually doing two contradictory things at once, which is exhausting.

    Sawing the Metal Ball

    Imagine your fear is a heavy metal ball. You spend the flight trying to "saw" it smaller. You distract yourself, you drink alcohol, you pray, you check the flight attendants' faces. You are desperately trying to calm down.

    Welding the Ball

    At the exact same time, you are adding more metal to the ball. You listen to a noise and think, "That's the engine failing." You feel a bump and think, "We are falling." You recall a news story about a crash.

    You are trying to soothe your nervous system with one hand while terrifying it with the other. This is why you land feeling physically shattered.

    You must learn to drop the saw and stop the welding. You cannot force your autonomic nervous system to calm down by scaring it with catastrophic thoughts.

    En bref

    Cette contradiction épuisante qui consiste à essayer de se calmer tout en alimentant sa peur avec des pensées catastrophiques à chaque vol.

    Alex Gervash - Spécialiste de la peur de l'avion et pilote

    À propos de l'auteur

    Alex Gervash

    Pilote et spécialiste de la peur de l'avion

    • Pilote professionnel (31 ans d'expérience dans l'aviation)
    • Formée en psychologie et en thérapie des traumatismes (EMDR, Somatic Experiencing)
    • Fondateur de phobia.aero et de l'application SkyGuru

    Alex Gervash leverages 31 years of commercial aviation experience alongside his psychology and trauma therapy expertise to provide a sophisticated approach to flight fear treatment. By applying principles of polyvagal theory to the autonomic nervous system, he helps the nervous flyer deconstruct the biological roots of their phobia.aero symptoms. Through his comprehensive aerophobia therapy programs, Alex has guided over 16,000 individuals to overcome fear of flying, while his pioneering SkyGuru app provides real-time in-flight support to a global community of 200,000+ users. This unique intersection of cockpit mastery and mental health science allows Alex to transform the way travelers process anxiety at 30,000 feet.

    16,000+a aidé
    Reconnaissance par l'ONUNations
    31 ansaviation
    Expertexpertise