Psychology
Financial expert reveals severe flight anxiety required panic therapist on private jet
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Why Everyone Is Drowning In Debt (and how to get out) - Caleb Hammer
"I burst down in tears. It was anxiety. It was remembering a lot of the things I haven't done, a lot of the family I haven't visited because of my fear of travel. It was grief, as much grief as it was anxiety. I brought him. Yes. So I brought him. You brought your panic therapist on the jet with you? It was our plan."
Hammer discloses he hasn't flown in over a decade due to severe flight anxiety and hired a panic therapist to accompany him on a private jet for a short Austin to San Antonio flight as exposure therapy. The emotional breakdown during the flight was less about terror and more about grief over missed experiences and unvisited family members. He's now working with the therapist on a game plan to overcome the phobia through gradual exposure.
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