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Travel anxiety-anyone else have this?

Queen
over 4 years ago

Hi,

Am curious to know if anyone here suffers from travel anxiety? When I was little occasionally I used to suffer from bad anxiety when we had to travel than the few miles into our town, but the 45 miles to where my grandparents live was too much and resulted in anxiety and attacks leading up to the day in question. Then on the day of travel, we would take my dads car, if I went nine times out of ten I'd have a panic attack and end up sick along the way.

I'm a bit older now but my travel anxiety is even worse now. Any journey even the short ones into town make me so anxious and give me anxiety symptoms leading up to it and on the day.

I never go anywhere now. No job, no friends just extreme anxiety. Also another form of this is that when I'm in the car and travelling I need the toilet and need to wee literally within five minutes of the journey starting. And on hour long journeys it becomes so difficult, especially as most public toilets are closed here now.

This morning I was meant to go with my dad to see my grandma but the anxiety was severe and I backed out and now I feel so guilty and bad.

I know that the logical thing to do is to go to the doctors but I get severe panic attacks when I go so I don't go.
But I realize that this is becoming really bad for me.

Parents
  • over 4 years ago

    I have this problem for a few reasons. 

    I have a massive thing about becoming stranded somewhere (it’s mobility related more than anything) 

    I also don’t like trying to decipher what people are going to do next. Going out into town there are a lot of what Seem to me to be boisterous people and people like this scare me a lot. Teenagers terrify me. Children stare at me. People try to talk to me and I don’t know on any given day how i’ll Respond. Some days I seem fine and able to communicate back but mostly I find myself shutting down and not able to communicate in a ‘reasonable’ manner. 

    I no longer go out unless with a support worker or parents. Which limits me a lot. 

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  • over 4 years ago

    I have this problem for a few reasons. 

    I have a massive thing about becoming stranded somewhere (it’s mobility related more than anything) 

    I also don’t like trying to decipher what people are going to do next. Going out into town there are a lot of what Seem to me to be boisterous people and people like this scare me a lot. Teenagers terrify me. Children stare at me. People try to talk to me and I don’t know on any given day how i’ll Respond. Some days I seem fine and able to communicate back but mostly I find myself shutting down and not able to communicate in a ‘reasonable’ manner. 

    I no longer go out unless with a support worker or parents. Which limits me a lot. 

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