How to Travel Full-Time When You Have Crippling Anxiety, Depression, and Travel-Triggered Mental Health Issues
It’s hard but not impossible
Trigger warning: This article talks about anxiety, depression, OCD, and other mental health issues. Proceed with caution.
Travel and mental health issues don’t play well together.
When you live out of Airbnbs with no fixed address and spend all your time flinging yourself out of your comfort zone, there is little room for the safety and security that those of us with mental health issues seek out.
I have no safe place. Nowhere to go when things get rough. And they definitely get rough.
This is a tough article to write because it’s going to get incredibly honest. I’m going to tell you things that few people in real life know (I do a very good job of hiding my issues).
But I want to write it because I know there are plenty of people with mental health issues who desperately want to travel but worry they can’t do it.
Quick disclaimer because I’d not feel right writing this article without it — I can only offer my own experiences and perspective here. My issues are nowhere near as severe as some, for whom traveling may be impossible. I’m also — natch — not a doctor…
