159. Travel Anxiety

Getting Old Quickly

In Episode 159, Billy Donnelly talks about the escalating levels of travel anxiety he's found he experiences now -- particularly after his most recent trip to Detroit and Chicago. While he felt a certain degree of nervousness in traveling before, since the diagnosis of his GI condition, he's found that being in situations where he lacks control over his surroundings and environment can take a toll on how he physically feels -- which then plays a role in his level of concern over inexplicably finding himself with a bathroom emergency. He describes several scenarios from his trip to explain further how his mind and gut wind up in a vicious cycle of worry that does him no favors. And he talks about the burden he carries in certain situations when he can just tell his health and its inconveniences are becoming an annoyance for others and the feelings he then has to deal with as a result.