AIBU - husband currently flying over Iraq

[sayyet]

Full disclosure I have anxiety which is only being made worse by having a difficult twin pregnancy. My husband is travelling to Oz for work and I have been stalking/tracking his flight. AIBU to be absolutely terrified that my husband is currently flying over numerous politically unstable countries? I keep thinking of that horrendous crash in Ukraine. AIBU?

@Lifecraft

Why are you specifically worried about Iraq? Have I missed some news?

How you feeling OP, hope you’ve got some rest.

Anxiety isn’t rational.

If it helps, my dh has actually been in Iraq on the ground and is fine... The news/media give us vivid images which we lock on to. The vast majority of Iraq is empty, and many of the people are peasants who would no sooner shoot down a plain than you or I.

Try and use the cbt techniques you have learned and apply them. I would think of all the normal people in these countries who are doing washing, feeding chickens, playing with their kids. It is much more normal than you think.

There are now commercial flights from the UK to Iraq, try not to worry.