And so it begins...
Feb. 12th, 2007 08:56 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
litheraThe freaking out period of travel.
About a week ahead of any major travel I do, I start to flip out a bit. I worry about all of the what ifs. I do this normally but it is normally a sort of idle wonderance. There isn't any teeth in it. Suddenly add airplanes and I'm a freaking basket case. I don't know why I'm like this. I know it has gotten worse rather than better over the past few years especially. It mighe have to do with the climate of fear around this country when it comes to airplanes.
It could be all sorts of things coming from all sorts of places. I can think of at least three possible sources. Maybe they're all joining together to form a merry band of neurosis. Who knows?
All I know is when I go to the doctor for my malaria pills tomorrow, I'm probably going to ask for something to help me stay a little calmer.... if not to sleep. I generally can't sleep on planes. If they move at all (let us say, turbulence for instance) I just wake up again. It makes for a very surreal time if I travel a long time. (How about around the world this time?)
Anyway... This isn't to get a bunch of people telling me it'll be okay. I'm working on it.
I just need to talk about these things in order to get some sort of a handle on them. As soon as I'm moving and in action, I'm fine. It is the waiting that gets me. Every damned time.
About a week ahead of any major travel I do, I start to flip out a bit. I worry about all of the what ifs. I do this normally but it is normally a sort of idle wonderance. There isn't any teeth in it. Suddenly add airplanes and I'm a freaking basket case. I don't know why I'm like this. I know it has gotten worse rather than better over the past few years especially. It mighe have to do with the climate of fear around this country when it comes to airplanes.
It could be all sorts of things coming from all sorts of places. I can think of at least three possible sources. Maybe they're all joining together to form a merry band of neurosis. Who knows?
All I know is when I go to the doctor for my malaria pills tomorrow, I'm probably going to ask for something to help me stay a little calmer.... if not to sleep. I generally can't sleep on planes. If they move at all (let us say, turbulence for instance) I just wake up again. It makes for a very surreal time if I travel a long time. (How about around the world this time?)
Anyway... This isn't to get a bunch of people telling me it'll be okay. I'm working on it.
I just need to talk about these things in order to get some sort of a handle on them. As soon as I'm moving and in action, I'm fine. It is the waiting that gets me. Every damned time.
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Date: 2007-02-12 05:13 pm (UTC)Fixed it for you!
Sleeping pills will help. Talking these things out will help. Making lists of the things left to do and crossing them off as you do them so you know there are things you can stop worrying about will help, too.
My ear is open for bending by you about this stuff, too, just let me know when you want to get together.
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Date: 2007-02-12 05:21 pm (UTC)That would be bitchin'.
Cool. I don't know when I'm not going to be running around crazy, so... Heh.
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Date: 2007-02-12 05:24 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 05:28 pm (UTC)no subject
Date: 2007-02-12 05:34 pm (UTC)I could also do lunch in addition to this, just so you know.