fear of drowning in a car

Recently I have been so terrified to get in a car or even the school bus. I did get into a car accident 3 years ago (my mom was driving) where we hit a deer and the airbags went off but no one was hurt and I wasn't fazed at the time. Whenever i'm in a car now i feel my stomach clenching and it's hard to breathe. I feel like i'm gonna throw up and it doesn't stop until i'm out of the car. This didn't start happening until recently but it's quite severe.

During the night, I sometimes wake up with the sensation of have a fleck of spit caught in the back of my throat. Like I've accidentally inhaled a bit of saliva. I've tried looking up people having similar problems, and a lot of people mention mucus or phlegm or catarrh, but I distinctly mean spit. It's like when you accidentally inhale a bit of water. It doesn't feel thick or sticky or like something is coating my throat like post nasal drip.

We went out with one of our friends in their car. They have 2 children (aged 7 and 5). When we entered the car my daughter was so excited...but few mins later she started crying badly to go back home...nothing was sooting her that time..not even her father was able to control her. still we continued for the beach area..after we got down from the car she became calm and stated playing with the kids (running and racing)...again after 15 mins we got in the car to go back home and she was the same.

The best advice I can give you is to talk to someone and try to face the fear. Get back in your car and go for a drive even if it is only around the block. Each time you do it it will get easier. You have to take your control back. I should really learn to take my own advice. I wish you the best of luck and I hope you feel better.....

, cups, paper, sticks, trash, etc, but I have fear of it being a needle. The funny thing is, most of the time, I never review the photos; I guess just knowing I have them brings me relief. Before, I was even using a picker to pick things up off the ground, which I would store in the trunk of my car; however, I've pretty much gotten past that. It has come to the point that my condition is impacting my relationship.

By the time that I loaded them in the car and got home, I was sick with heat. I had to park all of the way in the back(popular place). I have started leaving my windows cracked and praying that nobody steals the car. Pray for some releaf!

One of my 3rd grade students drowned In a stream behind his home. One of the saddest funerals. EMTs and cops even attended. Sometimes I feel guilty for being super overprotective of my daughter. But situation like this is why. Kids are very fragile n precious.

There are many people whose personality takes a turn for the worse when they get behind the wheel of a car. Your husband is the type that might be afraid to confront others when face to face (as you mention at home) but feels shielded and less vulnerable when enclosed in the car. He then takes out his frustrations behind the wheel. You can often spot these drivers on the roads.

You could also bring along a puzzle book, like a word search, etc. I have a lot of anxiety in the car when my panic is peaking, and puzzle books are a really nice distraction for me, they help a lot. That's because I'm focused on something else, while at the same time, not looking AT the carm or the traffic and other things that would make me anxious.

I have a huge fear of driving and being a passenger in the car! It started out of the blue about a year and a hald ago! Nothing happened to bring it on it just happened! Its awful as I drive 60 miles every day for work! I have panic attacks along with it some days and have to pull over! My psychiatrist put me on Ativan that I take before driving to and from work or when I am getting into someone elses car and it seems to help al ittle bit. I am also on Effexor....

I have son who just turned 5. He had/has sort of the same fear. He's always hated to have the window down in the car while driving and if it starts looking like a storm or the wind picks up while outside he starts getting anxious. He wants ALL his toys from outside picked up and put in the garage right away. He has no fear of fans though. I'm just a Mom, but I would say, wait it out. She is still very young. At that age it is hard to talk to her about fears and explain wind.

Also on top of this nowadays i have a fear of sleeping as i have started to get dreams of drowning where i wake up feeling short of breath , In the shower i also feel like im drowing. I have done tests and they seem to be fine i was pregnant til 2 weeks ago and i suffered a missed miscarrige i will be having a chest x ray to check for fluid on the lungs as i wasnt able to do this in my pregnancy . I cant help but feel the heart and the miscarige are related but thet think its fine.

This sounds like an unfounded fear you have developed and I too, feel therapy would help you a lot. Were you in a car accident of this nature in the past, this would cause your fear? Anxiety causes most of us to develop fears like this, some have a root cause and others don't. Therapy will help you determine why you have this fear, and how to get over it. If therapy doesn't help (I think it will) there are medications to ease your fear.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?

t feel secure with my boyfriend. I might be homeless soon. My car needs alot of maintenance. My pregnancy has trapped me and i feel like im drowning. I love my baby but im also feeling really down by him or her.

back when I was 11, I had teasing so severe I considered several things including going in traffic (a boy in my class actually told me I should run in front of a car and end things already) it was hell and my family had no clue until I chose to talk to my mother as an adult. I was also depressed at 16 but not suicidal. I think we have one of those too about gating your pools here in Socal.

They kept on walking until they found an oasis, where they decided to take a bath. The one who had been slapped got stuck in the mire and started drowning, but the friend saved him. After he recovered from the near drowning, he wrote on a stone: TODAY MY BEST FRIEND SAVED MY LIFE. The friend who had slapped and saved his best friend asked him, "After I hurt you, you wrote in the sand and now, you write on a stone, why?

Also i never had asthma or anything of that nature, i am a smoker but not a heavy smoker in any sense of the word, i have been told by my phtsician i do have fluid in my lungs but he said its nothing out of the ordinary (then he retired a week later) but maybe the liquid he said in my lungs contributes to some sort of water pressure around the body drowning type reaction? I dont know, i know its not dry drowning!! Who gets that?

Not tryin to be mean but if u don't know how your body works maybe u are to young to be havin sex. If u don't know how to work a car would u drive? No the concequences would be a wreck. Would u get in a pool and try to swim if u didn't know what water was? No the concequences would be drowning! Well the same with sex only the concequence is stds hiv and pregnancy!this is not a game ladies! This is your life. Please read a book, protect your self and use a condom!

I had to cut him out of a tree, his head on my chest as I drove to the hospital, he died before we got there. I witnessed a murder, a man i knew was shot in the kneck more than once, back of his head blown out, and my favorite uncle died. Ive had several close friends lose their children at small ages by horrific deaths including cancer, drowning, and being shot. Since July I cannot stop thinking about death. The worst fear comes over me when im by myself, thinking someone is fixing to kill me.

Winter over here in New Zealand, but when it is summer, it gets pretty warm, I have never had any of these issues, I usually stay inside during the hottest part of the day, if I want to take a walk, or go out in the car, I do it early or later in the day. I don't get sunburned as I don't stay in the sun too long, plus, I put on a good sunscreen and wear a hat when I remember. Summer is not my favorite time of year, but I manage to survive.

Definitely.. there is a lot of death and terrible incidents happening in my area too. A hit and run, a man killed, a child drowning, it's so scary. Definitely hug my kids a little tighter at night, and praying for you and your family!

My doctor tells me that I have fluid in my lungs and advised a duretic. I have angina and on heart tablets. Should I have been given antibiotics?

I would also write poetry when I was having an attack, and that helped a lot. It might help you to have your feelings on a piece of paper, instead of in your brain. I hope I could help!

I just want to share my experience a lil,,I quit the pills so many times,,but the main thing that I addressed this time is why was I taking them,,a lot of people end up hooked because of chronic pain issues or injuries and then some of us because we just love how they make you feel-as in my case. I have underlying depression and it increased as well which each pill I took as the opiates mess up your chemicals in the brain.

Besides the fear of something being wrong with my baby I am afraid of not making it to thw hospital in time. This is my third child. With my second, I barely made it to the hospital! As soon as I got there I delivered. Has anyone on here not made it to the hospital with there previous pregnancy? What did you do!?

I can say I have used the netti pot nasal rinse, and it takes some getting used to, especially if one has any fear of drowning/water. I find it effective at clearing the sinus areas between the two nostrils but think it does little else. I suppose if one has some dust or pollen or other aggravating in the nose it could help by clearing that out. I have read not to us tap water as it may contain irritants. I use bottled steam iron water, not spring drinking water for my netti pot.

s because I had 2 accidents in the past 3 years--one where a speeding car in the middle of the day T-boned me, one where I scraped the car along a railing in a construction area (might have dozed off?), and one where I caught someone's bumper when doing a U-turn--he came out of nowhere. I also have had a couple of close calls while a passenger: scary!

I am a very high stress person and was diagnosed bi-polar at 14, I overdosed on my meds at 16. That is the same year I was in a horrendous car accident that knocked out the majority of my teeth. I needed oral surgery for implants as well as had most of what was left of my teeth drilled away to put crowns over. This accident had lingering effects, whatever teeth didn't come out in that accident were so brutalized they continue to need painful upkeep with the dentist.

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