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I'm 11. Gene, welcome to the program. Hello, Dr. Laura. I am absolutely thrilled to speak with you. I've been a listener for the last 28 years.

Dr. Laura, what my question for you is today is whenever I go on vacation with my husband, if we go to Europe and we usually go to Europe about every 5 years, we're very fortunate to be able to do this.

About 80% of the time I suffer from extreme homesickness and it manifests itself in panic attacks. I lose my appetite.

I have a hard time concentrating. There's a lot of tears and this happened 5 years ago. We landed in Portugal. It was a beautiful day we had for...

Whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, whoa, how many years has this been going on? This has been going on for 30 years and I'm 65 years old.

Have you ever gone into any kind of counseling for it? Panic attacks? No eating? That's pretty dramatic. Have you ever gone to a professional? What did you learn when you were with a professional?

Well, what I learned when I was with a professional was that what I learned is that you know what gene whether you are at home in California or whether you're over in Europe.

Think about it's just the surroundings that are changing. You are still you. You have a loving husband. You have loving friends.

So this is kind of a phobia and to almost kind of repeat in your head you know what gene go ahead and allow yourself to enjoy what's going on.

And how did that work for you? Well, you know Dr. Laura about 50% of the time it's been pretty good. Now we have a trip coming up at the...

Okay, I don't want to go into the trip coming up. Okay. Knowing that this happens all the time. Why do you go on trips to Europe?

Why do you put yourself through that? How much fun is your husband having with you panic attacks and not eating? I mean what's the point?

Yeah. Well, the times that I do go I do enjoy the sites, the activities, the...

I'm really confused now. How can you enjoy it if you're having panic attacks and can't eat?

Well, it happens about 60% of the time. So it does it a few moments ago. You said 80%.

Okay, okay. You're right. You're right. If 80% of the time I was going to get sick if I traveled I probably wouldn't travel.

So I was just curious is to why you put yourself through that? Yeah.

Yeah, some part of you doesn't want to perhaps some part of you doesn't really want to be there. Well, and I never...

What part might that be? What part might that be? What part of you may just not want to be on that trip with him?

Yeah. What part is that? Talk to me about that part.

You know, Dr. the part that that doesn't want to be there. I'm a very structured individual.

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