My anxiety is often at its worse when people I love go traveling or leave the house; I am just constantly bombarded with thoughts of worse case scenarios and it gets to the point where I just sit there shaking.  

I try to check in or do the ‘text me when you get there’ and usually the people who know me know to give me an ETA or an estimate of how long they’ll be gone, but sometimes I don’t get a response and my mind just jumps to the worse possible things.  Lately it’s gotten so bad that I’ve developed compulsions, like knocking on wood whenever I have a thought, even if I don’t believe in such things. 

Right now I’m waiting for someone to tell me they got off their flight safely and are settled in.  It’s been a very long time.  No one else is worried and I understand the person might be busy, but I just can’t stop freaking out.  The worse part is that, logically, I know something could have happened and I have no control over the situation.