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?

[Pannalash]

@Lifecraft

[Pinkblueberry]

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

[Kyvia]

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

Anxiety isn’t rational.

[Scarfaceclaw21]

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.

[MissCharleyP]

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