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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 1 year ago

    I don't travel, period. I haven't been more than 20 miles from home since 2018. I have a chronically overactive digestive system so I physically can't travel unless I take immodium, which has side effects like tiredness, headache and nausea. There's nothing I want to do enough to put myself through that.

    I do get a bus out into the nearby countryside sometimes and go walking, usually by myself. Being alone massively reduces the anxiety. It also helps to stay within a distance where I could walk home if I really had to (<20 miles).

    Anxiety in my life has been reduced enormously by giving up travel and only doing short trips if I genuinely want to. Pushing yourself to travel if you're not enthusiastic about it leads to resentment and you'll end up hating and fearing it even more.

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  • over 1 year ago

    I don't travel, period. I haven't been more than 20 miles from home since 2018. I have a chronically overactive digestive system so I physically can't travel unless I take immodium, which has side effects like tiredness, headache and nausea. There's nothing I want to do enough to put myself through that.

    I do get a bus out into the nearby countryside sometimes and go walking, usually by myself. Being alone massively reduces the anxiety. It also helps to stay within a distance where I could walk home if I really had to (<20 miles).

    Anxiety in my life has been reduced enormously by giving up travel and only doing short trips if I genuinely want to. Pushing yourself to travel if you're not enthusiastic about it leads to resentment and you'll end up hating and fearing it even more.

Children
  • 9 months ago in reply to HP35

    Sorry you've been suffering from anxiety like this, the added digestive problems can't be easy to deal with either. Have you seen your GP about this? Just wondering if they might be able to give you something to help both with the anxiety and also the digestive problems.

    I've recently been diagnosed with Crohn's which also seems to be triggered when I'm overly stressed.