Published on 12, July, 2020
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.
Given the current climate change related travel disruptions to both air travel and including rail strikes, going forward, it’s far too risky and dangerous to travel without a chaperone any longer distance over 20 miles on any forms of travel - before my later in life diagnosis and before Covid, I would have happily travelled alone on SailRail, overnight coach (via Holyhead) and air travel between the U.K. and Ireland (Dublin) but I’d have to think twice now especially after being stranded in Holyhead for 2 days on my return from Ireland
I'll head to Manchester, in March, via Coach - from Belfast - but the first Coach is towards Glasgow. The old service between Cairnryan and Carlisle is gone; now.
The only real coach service from Manchester to Dublin via Holyhead is now via Birmingham but one ends up waiting for hours in Birmingham - the Irish government wants to ban short haul flights between Ireland and the U.K. so partly due to the ongoing U.K. rail strikes and possible travel disruption within the Republic of Ireland my options are increasingly limited since Covid ended
I’m looking at coaches and trains from Manchester to South Wales, especially Pembroke and Fishguard, for the ferry to Rosslare - from there, getting the train to Dublin would be a doddle by comparison to Manchester, Chester, Holyhead Dublin (North Wall) which is a real hassle - flying from Manchester or Liverpool to Dublin is a real pain too, as it takes an hour even outside of rush hour to get out of Dublin Airport