How do you Adapt to Changes in Routine?

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I've always had a hard time adapting to sudden or unexpected changes in my routine. When it happens, I get frustrated, angry, and overwhelmed, and if someone pushes me too far, I melt down. I've been pushed to the brink of meltdown point twice in the past four days because of this, and I'm getting tired of it. I hate feeling like the world is collapsing around me when things don't g the way I expect; it's scary, exhausting, beyond irritating, and no one around me really seems to understand the extent of the impact it has on me. What do you all do to make adapting to sudden change easier?

In recent times I'm in a "safe environment" so to say, which means that my family knows very well to let me know earlier on if something's up (ideally, at least a day earlier on). That's a result of some long talks and experiences.

Of course, sometimes there are events I don't have an impact on, but they are rare and while it is hard to adapt to these changes, it's not impossible for me and there are still some possibilities to avoid the change like spontaneous visits by guests for example. I simply stay in my room for that time. Of course I'm upset, angered and in some cases overwhelmed, but I guess I'm lucky that my family does give me some safe grounding and acts supporting in such moments.

I might have to add: For me, it helps to know at least some of the commonly disturbing events that could occur. The aforementioned spontaneous visit is something that can happen any day, so I could develop a (let's call it) "subroutine" for this. It makes it much easier to deal with as it works like a fallback plan I can resort to.

High resistance and distress that people can see.

I take a med for my anxiety & one for my OCD & the combo makes adapting to changes a little easier.