Poll: Could you travel abroad on your own?

DX'd - Other
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For me the answer is no. I would have to be accompanied by someone and have a lot of support

  • Yes
  • No
  • Maybe
2

Yes I could if I had enough money, but not carrying it with me as I’d either get it stolen or lose it. Money is like the world’s only superpower so anything is possible for me if I can buy my way through it.

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I mean abroad, out of the country no.
Abroad, throughout the country, yes, because I have before and I want to again.

4

Could I? Yes probably. Would I? No. I mean I can travel alone no problem…but my biggest fear would be airport security and customs/border agents and stuff like that…those people scare me almost more than cops do…and I’m not even hiding anything.

5

I don’t travel well but I could probably do it without too much trouble.

6

Out of the country.

7

I changed my vote haha

8

I’d even find internal travel hard. Ok hopping on a train as stations are signposted but navigating myself around when I got off- EEK!

9

Me too. I don’t even like riding the bus around town. I find though, that when I throw myself into an uncomfortable situation, I end up getting things done. It always seems worse thinking about something than actually doing it when I have no choice.

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I couldnt do it alone - I too would need at least one trusting and supportive person traveling with me - my paranoid anxiety would flare up. My anxiety borders on the irrational and paranoid when pushed to the limit - I do not do so well with planes, just too darn frightening for me. On top of GAD I suffer from OCD - panic disorder and some leftover agoraphobia - I honestly don’t think it would work

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When I renewed the identity card and mentioned the purpose to apply for a new passport, the staff just could not believe me and mumbled “how can a mentally ill travel abroad”.

(I showed her the disability card so that the processing fee could be waived)

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12

i could but everyone on the plane could be in danger…
i have ocd when it comes to opening exit doors…
open…close…whoops… sorry!
open…close…whoops…sorry !
you get the picture.
take care

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13

wow, that is rude , and ignorant, sorry that happened to you.
take care.

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I voted “maybe” because I traveled alone once from Mexico to California about 10 years ago just fine, even though I had been diagnosed with Bipolar. But then later, after I was diagnosed with Sz too, I started freezing up in airports and following my husband around very closely because it all just felt so overwhelming. I still think I might be able to do it by myself though.

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I voted a big no.

Even if I made it through customs and luggage and all that… I would be SO lonely I’d have no fun.

Traveling/ hiking/ camping… is just not something I like to do alone.

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I have travelled alone a number of times…Both domestically and internationally.

I didn’t vote for keeping the results genuine.

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17

Definitely no, I have no experience with it anyway. I would need support.

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That’s sort of me too, though I considered going alone to a few places before. For me it would depend where I went, languages, the politics of the place, etc…though most countries now there will be some people speaking English.
When I have been to other countries (just 3) it was with other people.

Does this ^ have something to do with escaping the Death Star?

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19

I have and could in this country. Internationally, I could, but more than likely would have to stop at every other coffee shop to just sit down and figure out some random thought that’s haunting me.

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Don’t you get angry when they discriminate the mentally illed?i would kick them in the ass if they said if infront me me,haha

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