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Traveling with an anxious pup

If you're new here you might not know my dog has some pretty bad anxiety. Generalized/social not separation.  He's cool with being alone. He does seem to also suffer from FOMO a little too and throws a fit when we leave though. But if you read about Tuckers anxiety  it goes into depth about him, but he is medicated for it. He takes prozac daily and when something particularly stressful we have gabapentin.   Every year for Christmas we travel 6 hours north to my sister's house, she's a dog person so Tucker comes with me. It's a long car ride, and some of the basic things like people shadows lights windshield wipers all set him off really bad.   I am 99.99% confident that Tucker will not go up and bite someone, he's safe to be around. Just not to pet. But traveling with him is mildly unpleasant. So here are some tips and tricks that made our adventure a bit more enjoyable. Medication So tucker was prescribed prozac for daily use and gabapentin for really bad days...
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Tuckers anxiety

Hi there! My name is Johnnielynn.  I am a lifestyle blogger who writes about mental health as well as other things.  Typically I talk about my own but today were going to be discussing my dog.  I got my dog in August 2020 yes he is a "covid puppy".  I adopted a dog mostly on impulse.  Now before you judge  I work from home, I have before covid and still do now that the world has gone back to normal. I have plenty of time with him and he is loved very much. Most people will hear that he was a covid puppy and he has anxiety and will tell me that's why.  They assume separation anxiety, Tucker doesn't have separation anxiety.  He has general and a bit of social anxiety. . It started as a puppy So I got him when he was three months old.  He was at an in home daycare, I don't know if the kids were rough with him or just too rowdy but when I got him kids scared him.  My nieces and nephews he was happy with, but other kids would scare him and he...
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My anxious life

 Good morning or evening I don't know when you logged on. My name is Johnnielynn and I am extremely anxious.  I have struggled with anxiety for as long as I can remember.  Over my 34 years of life I've had to learn to cope and how to function not just with it but inspire of it.  Where my anxiety began I don't know if my anxiety is a result of abandonment trauma or if it's a chemical imbalance.  I do know that while I don't remember experienceing it until I was 7 my mom said I was much younger.  When I was 3 my parents got a divorce. during that time and until my youngest sister was 3 we had a family councilor that was concerned with my self esteem, or lac of.  My mom has told me that she was told to praise everything I did. "Johnnielynn you're sitting so nicely" "look how good you're..."  I only remember being 7.  I remember being in second grade, and every day I was crying because my tummy hurt. As soon as I was out of school I was happy...
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I'm Back!!!

 Hello everyone, Guess who's back.  I am Johnnielynn, I write a lifestyle blog where I write about my love of beauty products, nannying, pets, and anxiety.  I've been off of blogging for a while and I've missed it so much. Blogging has always been helpful to my mental health. I've also got a social circle of non makeup obsessed friends so while they let me talk about all of the different beauty products that I am loving it's not real exciting to them.  Why did I leave? Ok so as you can guess from the title this isn't my first blog. I first started my blog in 2015 and ran it well for 5 years. I never went "viral" and really it just made me happy. Unfortunately with 2020 came uncertainty and inconsistency so my anxiety crept into my blog. So I gave it up.  I felt like I wasn't putting anything into it, which made me feel guilty so I let it go.  But I've gotten my mental health back under control and am thrilled to start this journey... again Why ...
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