traveller1
26-06-13, 12:12
Hi everyone! I'm new to this site so please bear with me! :)
I've never really suffered from travel related anxiety until fairly recently. It was about 3 years ago and I was travelling with my parents to Cyprus (I'm 20 now) and felt a bit nauseous and needed to go to the bathroom quite frequently but it was nothing that hadn't happened to me before. However, in the departure gate I gradually got more and more anxious. It climaxed when I got on the plane and felt really very nauseous. This was combined with a feeling of the inability to escape if anything went wrong, or if I felt really ill. I felt sick for the rest of the flight (4.5 hours) and felt nervous but I tried to relax and this helped somewhat. I initially thought it was just normal travel sickness until it started happening nearly every time I travelled. It goes completely if I travel the route fairly frequently (a 50min journey to University).
I'm going to Wimbledon (2 nights) with a University friend tomorrow and obviously I'm really excited about seeing the tennis. I can't help but feel nervous about being on a train to London for a couple of hours (I feel nervous already!). I keep having visions of being sick on the train, or being ill generally in London away from home. We're both catching separate trains to London because we live in different towns, but are meeting up at King's Cross.
I'm trying to be as prepared as I can be, I'm already packed, printed off maps and timetables, got my Rescue Remedy Pastilles and some Kwells.
I hope you can offer me some last minute advice, so I don't have to suffer too much whilst I'm away.
Best wishes :)
I've never really suffered from travel related anxiety until fairly recently. It was about 3 years ago and I was travelling with my parents to Cyprus (I'm 20 now) and felt a bit nauseous and needed to go to the bathroom quite frequently but it was nothing that hadn't happened to me before. However, in the departure gate I gradually got more and more anxious. It climaxed when I got on the plane and felt really very nauseous. This was combined with a feeling of the inability to escape if anything went wrong, or if I felt really ill. I felt sick for the rest of the flight (4.5 hours) and felt nervous but I tried to relax and this helped somewhat. I initially thought it was just normal travel sickness until it started happening nearly every time I travelled. It goes completely if I travel the route fairly frequently (a 50min journey to University).
I'm going to Wimbledon (2 nights) with a University friend tomorrow and obviously I'm really excited about seeing the tennis. I can't help but feel nervous about being on a train to London for a couple of hours (I feel nervous already!). I keep having visions of being sick on the train, or being ill generally in London away from home. We're both catching separate trains to London because we live in different towns, but are meeting up at King's Cross.
I'm trying to be as prepared as I can be, I'm already packed, printed off maps and timetables, got my Rescue Remedy Pastilles and some Kwells.
I hope you can offer me some last minute advice, so I don't have to suffer too much whilst I'm away.
Best wishes :)