A 67-year-old woman spent 17 years without traveling by plane due to her fear of using this means of transportation. However, after learning about the music of btsnow manages to control anxiety during flights.
This is the story of Debbie Adamson, originally from Southampton, Hampshire, United Kingdom. who told how she managed to travel by plane again accompanied by the songs of the South Korean band.
According to the story spread by Kennedy News & Media, his fear began years ago, when he was a student, after making his first flight. From then on, He began to think that any plane he was traveling on could crash.
As time went by, his fear increased to the point that he hid his personal documents to avoid boarding a plane.
In 2006 she planned a trip with her husband and three children to Orlando, Florida. However, When he was about to board, he hid his passport inside a magazine that was at the airport. The staff issued a new document so he could travel.
Adamson recalls that He cried for about three hours on the plane and, from then on, decided that his subsequent trips would be by other means of transportation. to avoid, at all costs, traveling by air.
“I can’t explain it, you just can’t control it. It is an absolute terror. Even with the slightest turbulence, he would cry again. He never ate or drank, [pero] I got off flights feeling pretty bad. It was really terrible,” he recalled.
Almost two decades passed like this, until in 2025 a friend who worked as a pilot began to explain how airplanes work and the safety procedures used in aviation.which gave him greater peace of mind.
He then joined a Facebook group dedicated to supporting people with aerophobia (fear of flying) and discovered that BTS’s music calmed him.
As part of her process, she planned a trip with her husband to Santorini, Greece, to celebrate their 40 years of marriage. Before that trip, her family encouraged her to travel to Orlando as a kind of test.
The woman prepared a playlist with BTS songs and, during takeoff and the journey, she closed her eyes, held on tightly to the seat and concentrated on listening to the music.
“I created a bulletproof playlist of every song I love so I knew I’d keep listening to them. I closed my eyes during takeoff and held on really tight. Once I did, I started rationalizing it. I simply showed myself that I had given myself permission to not be afraid, and that was it. All the pressure was imposed on me by my own mind”, he said.
The trip was totally different from his previous experiences, as the strategy helped him cope with the flight, even when there was turbulence.
Although she considers that the fear has not completely disappeared, she feels calm that she has developed tools to face it and be able to continue traveling.
“I would never say I’m cured, but I have enough self-awareness to think, ‘I’m going to give myself permission to not be afraid.’ I had nothing to be ashamed of, I couldn’t help it. But what I didn’t do was give my mind the freedom to inform itself about it and be a little more logical in that sense,” he commented.