Find helpful resources for protecting your mental health while traveling, including blog posts, guidance for traveling with mental-health medication, podcast episodes, and TED or TEDx Talks about travel, culture shock, and uncertainty.
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Blog Posts
- How to Calm Airport Anxiety Before a Flight?
- How to Overcome Flight Anxiety?
- How to Manage Anxiety While Traveling: A Complete Guide
- How to Handle Homesickness After Relocating for a Relationship?
Traveling With Mental-Health Medication
- CDC — Traveling Abroad With Medicine
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Important for anyone traveling with antidepressants, ADHD medication, anxiety medication, sleep medication, or other prescriptions. Different countries have different medication restrictions, so this is something to investigate before departure rather than at the airport.
Travel Mental Health Podcast Episodes
- How to Overcome Travel Anxiety and the Fear of Flying — Zero To Travel Podcast
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Focuses on both general travel anxiety and fear of flying. It explores phobias, panic, psychological triggers, and practical ways to approach travel fears. - Anxiety and Flying With Dr. David Carbonell — Disordered: Anxiety Help
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A particularly useful episode for people who already experience panic or chronic anxiety and worry about being trapped on an airplane with intense symptoms. - How I Overcame My Anxiety Around Travelling — Owning It: The Anxiety Podcast
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A personal discussion about travel anxiety, avoidance, anticipatory fear, and gradually becoming able to travel despite anxiety. - How Can I Beat My Fear of Flying? — Do You Really Know?
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A short episode specifically about flight anxiety and what can help before and during a flight. - Overcoming Your Fear of Flying With Tom Bunn — Flying Smarter
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Therapist and retired airline captain Tom Bunn discusses why people become afraid of flying, panic and claustrophobia, and ways to address those fears. - Homesickness — The Psychology of Your 20s
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Explores homesickness, nostalgia, attachment to familiar places, identity, and why someone can unexpectedly struggle after leaving home even when the move or trip was something they wanted. - Expat Homesickness — Expatability Chat
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Focuses specifically on missing home while living abroad and adjusting to unfamiliar surroundings, routines, relationships, and culture. - Dealing With Homesickness Whilst Travelling — Your Dose
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Discusses homesickness during travel, relocation, and periods spent away from familiar people and places. - You Made It Abroad… So Why Does It Still Feel So Hard? — The Expat Therapist
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Addresses the emotional crash that can follow a major move, including loneliness, homesickness, identity changes, and the confusing experience of achieving something you wanted but still struggling emotionally. - Solo Travel for Introverts: Overcoming Travel Anxiety & Building Confidence — Travel the World Confidently
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Focuses on solo travel when you are anxious, quiet, socially uncomfortable, or unsure whether you can manage being away by yourself.
TED & TEDx Talks About Travel, Culture Shock & Uncertainty
- What Is Culture Shock and How I Overcame It — Ashley Huang
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Focuses specifically on the confusion, fascination, frustration, and uncertainty that can appear when adjusting to an unfamiliar culture. - Rethinking Culture Shock — Natalia Meza
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Explores the stages of culture shock and how moving between cultures can affect the way someone understands themselves and their surroundings. - Finding Home — Padyn Kesselring
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Focuses on homesickness and adapting emotionally to unfamiliar environments. - The Meaning of Home — and the Joy of Traveling — Pico Iyer
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Explores travel, belonging, identity, home, cultural differences, and how movement between places can change our understanding of where we belong.
