Being afraid of flying often means having to fight an invisible enemy that can show up suddenly, in the middle of the journey or even in the waiting room at the gate, when everything seemed to be under control.
The onset of a panic attack on the plane it will undoubtedly make you feel out of control, with shortness of breath, violent palpitations and a generalized sense of asphyxiation largely dictated by the feeling of being trapped inside a car in the clouds.
For this reason, here on FlyCalm we have designed a fundamental and always ready-to-use tool, accessible from our platform in every single interface even offline, for support in the midst of a psychological emergency: our special Panic Button.
What is the Panic Button and where is it located?
If you navigate FlyCalm's main screens — from the interactive weather map to our blog readings — you'll notice, at the bottom right of your screen, a well-marked, red, round button marked with an alarm/shield icon. That's ours Panic Button. We've made sure that, just in the event that you have an unpredictable adrenaline rush in your heart due to sudden clear-sky turbulence (or even an alien mechanical noise that you can't interpret), you can immediately press it to be catapulted straight to relief.
Cognitive emergency intervention, step by step
The mind in the grip of terror and panic has only one primordial objective: to escape from the perception of death by fleeing, bringing thoughts only to the most disheartening scenarios or to the imminent catastrophic tragedy. The Panic Button, when pressed, turns off the confused outline or crowded buttons and instantly projects a dark, reassuring support and a visual path structured on three indispensable cornerstones of psychotherapy applied to panic to bring you back to the "Grounding" or anchoring in the present.
- Step 1 (The Vago-Sympathetic Breath Control): The very first signal to lower the beating heart rate in the neck. The interface will force you, with fluid and calming animations (like a relaxed pulsation in blue-sky), to realign the oxygenation which, in the case of the attack, is out of order due to escape hyperventilation. The famous sequence "4 seconds inside the nose, 7 blocks dilated lungs, 8 in breathing and emptying", will chemically block the adrenal glands after the sixth cycle in full from bombarding you with poisonous cortisol and adrenaline to make you doze off and get back on track.
- Step 2 (The Physical and Mechanical Rational Explanation): If what terrified you was an astonishing noise from scratching against the hold or the impressive metallic creaks that you often hear during the first asymmetric pre-landing descent procedures: the interface intervenes to reassure you by offering you the factual reality of the aircraft procedures, basically blocking the belief of the irreparable failure and replacing it with the correct sense of operation of the standardizable and very serious regular office machinery on board.
- Step 3 (Rationalize and Demolish the Specter of Lethal Turbulence): Don't forget the obvious while your teeth chatter in terror: air gaps do not cause wings to crash into the sky or sudden implosions and our application, on this last page of the rescue screen, destroys the incongruent false myth of turbulence in a clear and friendly way, to close the psychotic circle and offer you the sleep you deserved.
Why can timely use save your liver (and your vacation)?
Being able to enjoy an "artificial aseptic friend" designed and designed to give you a stable hold when everything (body and air), although physiologically safe, appears to your very fragile senses instead to be sinking hastily down prey and hostage of indomitable meteorological elements, pushes your rational trust to the limit of logical breakdown.
Never delay: an attack of panic neurosis must be quelled at the root as soon as your fingers and the back of your neck tend to tingle with the very first dry gasps, a single click on the Panic Button on the hot glass of the display distracts your corneas, making you fully return to this side of conscious control before the catastrophe slope pushes you to the point of crying out of terror.