Travel and Anxiety: Overcoming Nervousness On the Road

An estimated 40 million people in the U.S. (or 12 percent of the population) are diagnosed with anxiety disorder; and even more people have anxious feelings specific to travel (about 25 percent of the population).

“The most common fears about travel have to do with flying, being away from home, and becoming ill while away,” says Rosen. “Patients that I see fear getting ‘lost’ and not being able to get home, or getting sick and having to go to a hospital that they do not know.”

Get tips to help put your fears aside in the full article here.