Do You Have Anxiety While Flying?

For the last five years, I have had panic attacks while flying on airplanes. I have needed to take prescription medicine, a cocktail and nausea medicine to try and overcome it. All that and I would still have an attack, it just delayed it further in to the flight. It was embarrassing and frustrating. I am not afraid of flying. I am however claustrophobic and a secret control freak. The fact I cannot get up and move when I need to freaks me out and I can't take it. I have also learned that I take on others peoples stress, anger and anxiety.

This past March I flew with my two brothers and my little brothers girlfriend and it was the first time in five years I did not have an attack. I did however have my regime. I assumed that it. finally worked. Then this past week I flew with my best friend and on the way home, I forgot the regime and did not take my anxiety medicine. For the first time in five years, I did not need medicine or anything else to get me through a flight. I cannot express how amazing it felt. I felt accomplished. I felt successful.

I attribute this success to my own self growth over this past year. I have really made it a point to distance myself from toxic people. Sometimes we don't even realize how negative our surroundings are until we stop and take a deeper look.

I also had to dive deep into looking at what I really wanted out of life. What makes me happy. This is a task I am still working on. Self discovery is a long journey for me so far. I was so stuck in habits that did not serve me so to break them, I am going to need to do a lot of work. So far, I am loving the things I am learning about myself.

If you are feeling unhappy, I encourage you to take a good look around at who you are spending time with and what things you are doing everyday that you wish you weren't. A change needs to happen. Take small steps first. If you hate waking up at 6am, how can you change that? There are other options. They may just need a tweak or maybe you need a major life change. What's the worse that could happen?