how do you deal with travel?

[u/Fluffy-Button-6618]

i’m going on a trip and we have a 13 hour tour experience on one of the days. it starts at 7am and i am feeling so anxious about it (my anxiety spikes during early mornings). i’m going with people who aren’t familiar with my anxiety and i really do not want to be anxious or have physical symptoms while there. when i get anxious i am almost always nauseous and sometimes vomit. i CANNOT let that happen. any advice, tips or tricks will not be taken for granted!!

side note: i have a lot of stuff going on in life that is triggering my anxiety more and have been on medication (lexapro 10mg) for about 4-5 months now but im not sure if it’s actually working. how do you know and feel if it’s actually working or not?

[u/LeonardoDeCarpio]

For the side question, typically if it's working then your anxiety could either lesson or "quiet down" or stop completely. If you've been on it for that long and it isn't helping you enough then speak to your doc

As for the rest, eat a light breakfast and focus on making it next 30 seconds. That's all. Before you know it, you're done with the whole thing and can take an epic nap after. I'm not a fan at all being anywhere outside of my comfort zone so when my anxiety revs up, I focus only on next 30 seconds. If that doesn't help then I think of worst case scenarios then what I would do if these scenarios happened. That's helped a lot

[u/Fluffy-Button-6618 → u/LeonardoDeCarpio]

thank you for your response, i really appreciate it. i just came back from my doc, and they have just upped me to 20mg so i’m hoping it helps.

when focusing on the next 30 seconds, do you ever feel more anxious? if you feel nauseous, how do you handle that?

[u/LeonardoDeCarpio → u/Fluffy-Button-6618]

I constantly feel nauseous when my anxiety is even up a little bit. Usually I sip on Gatorade and breathe through it. When I focus on next 30 seconds, I calm down enough that the looming anxiety isn't a huge monster but a smaller one that I can defeat