As an academic and journalist who has travelled extensively over the last 20 years – but also a diagnosed sufferer of generalised anxiety disorder – I’ve been researching the myriad triggers of travel anxiety.
Many readers will be familiar with the dread and panic that can stem from delayed transport, overcrowded streets, chaotic airports and encounters with officious bureaucrats. But there are also less obvious causes linked to ecological degradation, cultural miscommunication and the complexities of personal identity and experience.
