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<blockquote data-quote="nickdnz" data-source="post: 440137" data-attributes="member: 38640">Actually, all phobias are very treatable, including Acrophobia. It requres gradual exposure and relaxation training over a prolonged period of time, but it is very treatable. In fact there is such a thing called flooding, which is extremely effective at curing phobias, in which you force a person to face their phobias for a long period of time (eg if they are scared of spiders, poor a hundred on their head and tell them they can scream and cry, but not leave the chair), in which the human body can only experience extreme terror and panic attacks for a couple of hours. By the end of the flight, he may not like flying, but he would have likely been cured of the phobia.What your friend may have is PTSD, which is much harder to treat.I tend to agree with GG. If he knew he had a real problem, he should have either undergone treatement a month or so out of the RWC, or declined at the beginning.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="nickdnz, post: 440137, member: 38640"] Actually, all phobias are very treatable, including Acrophobia. It requres gradual exposure and relaxation training over a prolonged period of time, but it is very treatable. In fact there is such a thing called flooding, which is extremely effective at curing phobias, in which you force a person to face their phobias for a long period of time (eg if they are scared of spiders, poor a hundred on their head and tell them they can scream and cry, but not leave the chair), in which the human body can only experience extreme terror and panic attacks for a couple of hours. By the end of the flight, he may not like flying, but he would have likely been cured of the phobia. What your friend may have is PTSD, which is much harder to treat. I tend to agree with GG. If he knew he had a real problem, he should have either undergone treatement a month or so out of the RWC, or declined at the beginning. [/QUOTE]

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