Hi, welcome
Anxiety is a serious illness. It has a few advantages like punctuality but overall life is far better when we conquer it and it is curable n some circumstances. (see link below)
Like many mental health issues, a multi ponged approach works best. If you simply get some medication from your GP that wont be a ideal long terms fix, add to it- relaxation, changes to your life like environment, move from city to country, going out more - comedy?, hobbies, sleep study, financial contentment or joining him on his business trip if thats possible.
When I first got treatment for my anxiety in 1987 my therapist identified a few things that I recall to this day as significant to my overcoming my anxiety. "when Tony are you going to stop saving the world"... "every time you feel anxious ask yourself- is it realistic"
When we get anxious we often explode the situation away from realism, our out of control mind is saying that this upcoming event is life changing, a terrible thing to happen etc whereas, if you were a fly on the shoulder of your husband every moment of that trip, you'd highly likely be calmer as the unknown would discontinue. You'd know there was nothing to worry about. So my process was "is my thoughts realistic"? If they are not then how do you get rid of them? Well the answer is to use one or more of your senses, eg skin- play golf, sight- window shopping, build something, ears- listen to music, smell cook a meal. All these sensors give our mind a distraction.
I hope that helps.
https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/staying-well/depression-distraction-and-variety/td-p/275790
https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/anxiety-how-l-eliminated-it/td-p/183873
https://forums.beyondblue.org.au/t5/anxiety/worry-worry-worry/td-p/87808
Reply anytime
TonyWK
