Traumatic stress, neural self and the spiritual mind

Fear of Flying, Stress and Epileptic-Like Symptoms

“…3,4,7,10,11 Taken together, these findings indicate that individual histories mainly linked to various traumatic experiences and stress related sensitization to various conditioned "phobic" stimuli may be exaggerated and too sensitively experienced as dangerous or life threatening. [12][13][14] In addition, results of this study also agree with some data that personal difficulties and work related and career effects may be related to fear of flying. 2,3,10 Although extensive research has not been performed yet, it seems to be apparent that, experiencing severe excessive distress from or avoiding air travel may be severely detrimental to both current operational efficiencies and also longer term work related consequences.…”

“…7,10,11 The current study proposed to examine the relationship between aviophobia as measured by the widely used "Flight Anxiety Modality Questionnaire", "Burnout Measure", the "Limbic System Checklist", and "Trauma Symptom Checklist", intending to provide a deeper psychological assessment which may assist to understand basic mechanisms of this syndrome based on individual histories mainly linked to various traumatic experiences and stress related sensitization to various stimuli that may become exaggerated and too sensitively experienced as dangerous or life threatening. [12][13][14] This psychological sensitivity and progressive sensitization to stress stimuli according to some findings may be related to neurophysiological processes related to temporal and limbic epileptiform disturbances that Persinger called "temporal lobe lability". 15 Persinger 15 described that such temporal lobe symptomatology may cause a wide range of experiences and postulated continuum of temporal lobe lability and its associated manifestations.…”