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Friday, April 10, 1987 / University Daily Kansan
THE FAR SIDE
Bv GARY LARSON
'Well, this is getting nowhere fast!
Can't Get Enough!
Gunn later described four aephorbia personality profiles. In the first profile, he said the aephorbic had a generalized anxiety about flying.
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A young woman patient of Gunn's, who also is an employee at the Med Center, has a chronic concern about flying. Almost 11 years ago, she was in an airplane that crashed in St. Thomas, Virgin Islands. She received only minor injuries, but a number of other passengers died.
"I know that two-thirds of most aerobics would fit into this category,"
"but really extra sensitive to flying or have a chronic concern about it."
"For six months after the crash I didn't well sleep, and loud noises really bothered me," said the woman, who is uncomfortable just talking about the possibility of flying.
Phobias
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"When a person becomes frightened, the body's normal reaction is to prepare it for fight or flight by alerting the body's nervous system." he said. "The sympathetic nervous system, which triggers the excited reactions in the body, is brought into
Gunn gives tapes to all patients to help them teach themselves to relax before and during the plane ride. In addition, he gives them a checklist of things they should and shouldn't think about while flying.
"Many times I have taken my patients on plane rides because the best way to deal with a phobia is to stop avoiding it," he said.
Gunn described what happened to the body during an anxiety attack.
Gunn said he told phobic people to block their sympathetic nervous system by relaxing or by using self-hypnosis and instead bringing into focus the parasympathetic nervous system. This system allows the body to relax.
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The third personality profile involves patients with separation anxiety, or what Gunn described as feelings of insecurity without parental guidance. The symptom may show up in the elementary school years when a child is afraid to leave home for school.
"My method of dealing with these people is to logically desensitize them to flying," he said. "Because you are so focused on patients has not been in a plane accident or has even had anyone close to them in a plane accident."
The fourth profile involves claustrophobia, or the morbid fear of being in a closed place. Gunn said claustrophobia was central to many phobias because it was a physical indication of fear.
"These people are afraid of either being confined in space or time," he said. "Some may be afraid of flying in a small airplane, while others may be frightened by the thought of flying for eight hours."
The second personality profile includes those aerosphobics with control problems, Gunn said. Passive phobic people fear losing self-control if they have an anxiety attack on an airplane. If the people usually are aggressive, then they fear not being in control if an anxiety attack occurs.
"I had one male patient who was
play " When the fear is over, the body returns to normal.
aerophobic because he was afraid to leave his wife and new baby boy." Gunn said. "He was afraid of not ever seeing them again."
"I haven't flown since then."
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But a phobic person's fearful feelings are slow to dissipate, and the body actually remains tense for several hours, Gunn said. This ongoing stage of alertness actually tears down the body.
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