Please help, on holiday not coping!

[Kay85]

Hi guys, I have only posted on here a few times which is mainly cos I've been relatively well lately. My worst ever anxiety experience was way back web I was 18 and went on a holiday with some friends to Corfu...it was awful and I panicked the entire two weeks, didn't out with my friends, didn't sleep, eat etc. anyway since then (8 years ago) I have gradually clawed my life back from a place that saw me becoming suicidally depressed, dropping out of university. I have now been on anti-depressants for 6 years which helps me to live a semi normal life. I still have my issues and panics in every day life at least once a week though.

So, at the moment I am in Lanzarote with my sister. We arrived yesterday. This is not the first holiday I have been on since the horrific Corfu trip those years ago. It is however the first 'hot' holiday I have been on since. I wasn't even too worried about coming to be honest as I've been ok on holidays in the last few years and have been generally in a good place lately..well as soon as I got on the flight I realised it was not going to be a good flight, I was very anxious but held out and got here without a MAJOR panic. However since arriving I am my good. It is hot and I think this must be te link with my anxiety. I want to go home, I can't relax, I can't eat. I feel awful and trapped and very scared. Does anyone else get this on hot holidays? What can I do? I hate this do much

Sam

[BobbyDog]

I had a similar experience in January of this year. Try and find somewhere with air conditioning, if you have it in your room great, hopefully that should calm you a little. Heat is one of my panic triggers. Try and find something to do to relax you, read a book, crossword/wordsearch puzzles etc. If there is a swimming pool or you are near the sea, get in the water, that will cool you down. Get something to eat that you can take back to your room.

[Kay85]

Thanks, sometimes it's just reassuring to hear that others have had the same experience with heat and that's there's a reason for it and it's not just me having a relapse for no reason at all. Sorry about all my typos in that post also I was a bit frenetic. I just wish I could be normal and just relax and enjoy a holiday like other people seem to :-( we don't have air con but have rented a fan which is actually pretty effective. Hoping I'll get used to it and less panicky as the week goes on

[Annie0904]

I am usually anxious for the first couple of days on holiday then settle down and enjoy it. I hope you can enjoy the rest of the week :hugs:

[Kay85]

Thank you, I really hope it gets better too. I'm just a bit upset right now that I'm obviously not as 'ok' as I thought I had been lately and the ugly anxiety can rear its head at any time and ruin things.

[nicola1980]

Hi i know exactly how your feeling i went away in june and before the flight i was a mess and not even diazepam calmed me down, when i got there i had a couple of days where my anxiety was bad but when that happened i took myself off to my room for a lie down, it wasn't my best holiday but i coped and you will too :hugs: xx

[Kay85]

Thank you, it will get better as the week goes on won't it...and it is only a week this time, nt two which literally felt like a lifetime back in Corfu. Just need to hang on in there. I do also feel bad for my sister as its just me and her on the holiday and I feel like I ruining her trip too :-(

[Anxious_gal]

Air con is good :) I won't stay in a hot place without it in the room.
I even slept under the air con thing!
The next thing I did was always have a hand held fan or a battery powered one.
I'd freeze a small bottle of water, it's like a giant ice cube and takes a few hours to defrost.
It's cooling to hold it in your hands or against your neck.
I can't sunbath, I can't take the hot sub frying my skin lol.
Big baggy lose light coloured clothes help protect your skin from the sun.