"DGS" == DGS writes:

DGS Any feedback or experiences anyone can share?

You've had some good responses. Hope you don't quit just yet. Many
things we do in modern life are not natural, and thus anxiety is a
normal response. It may be that you had more anxiety than an average
first-flight person. Well, this isn't Lake Wobegone where we're all
better than average! For me, public speaking invoked the anxiety you
had on your first flying lesson, and the cure was Toastmasters--just
practicing the activity repeatedly.

For a long time I had a low level of anxiety flying. Finally I
decided it was because I wasn't flying often enough. Buying my own
plane and flying a lot more removed that. That's not your case, but
the point is that there are ways around anxiety.

I've thought more than once: why continue an activity that caused such
a level of discomfort? But there's something about flying that hooks
you...I can't really explain it. After a couple of weeks not flying I
get a little ansy--and a flight cures it. Strange.
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The hardest years in life are those between ten and seventy.
~ Helen Hayes, age 83