A Prescription for Dealing With Anticipatory Anxiety

I used it on my recent family trip to Asia.

Photo by Donald Merrill on Unsplash

I tend to use an unscientific and unprofessional word to describe anxiety: It sucks. One major reason it sucks is that anxiety can be hugely difficult to eliminate, especially the free-floating sort that has no easily discernible cause.

But there is one type that we can discern the cause and that we can exorcise and tha…