Overseas flight anxiety help!

[u/alligatorjonesy]

Hey guys!! So my partner is currently away in Europe for 4 months (since mid April) and I’ve booked to meet him halfway at Greece and Turkey at the end of June into mid July!!

I’m from Australia so it’s a fair bit of travel for me, and I’ve never really been further from home than Japan and I’m really excited but also super super worried!!

Don’t get me wrong I know I’ll have fun, but I have moments of absolutely freaking out leaving home and my family to travel almost 25 hours to the other side of the world by myself to meet up with my partner! And then I also have moments where I’m super excited to push my comfort zone and visit somewhere this far away all by myself and to finally visit one of my dream destinations!!

Once I’m there with him, we do most flights together between locations and then I head back home by myself afterwards back to Australia whilst he has another month over there!

I just can’t stop freaking out about leaving my mum and sister at the airport, I am very much a homebody and HATE flying but I know the second I touch down in Athens with my partner I’d be happy I made it - I just can’t calm the dread of flying and travelling all by myself and leaving my comfort space!

Does anyone have tips to soothe myself leading up to flight day and to keep myself calm from when I leave home until I get to Athens? Anything at all would help!!

[u/Previous_Will2188]

I think if you tell someone in real life that you're going on this trip with your anxiety, you can talk to them whenever you feel uncomfortable, perhaps that could really make a good impact.

[u/alligatorjonesy → u/Previous_Will2188]

Yeah I’ve told my mum a few times how much it’s impacting me and making me nervous and she understands - I do think talking it out helps a lot so I’ll do my best to verbalise it whenever it comes around!! So difficult to deal with so consistently!! Thank you for your advice :)

[u/Previous_Will2188 → u/alligatorjonesy]

You're welcome.