fear of driving cars

does anyone have a fear of being a passenger in cars or on buses planes etc do you manage your anxiety?

Of course there is always a what if, but we also take a risk by walking down the street, driving our cars, etc. Have you ever thought of talking to a therapist about this? Health anxiety is quite common in this forum and can really take a toll on us unless we get to the bottom of it. Keep us posted!

I highly recommend the follwing resources to help you over-come this fear of driving. In my opinion they are priceless and well worth the money. If you can afford them, I would order them today so you can get your recovery on the road. They have been instrumental in my recovery and I actually keep them in the car with me, just in case. 1) The Driving Fear Program - www.drivingfear.

i started getting anxiety while working at a casino as a bar server, well lets just say i had to quit, then the anxiety seemed to dissipate until i got in a car with someone else driving. I have been hit by a couple cars in my life and been in a couple accidents, and these were many years ago. I know that anxiety runs in my family on my mothers side in her sisters (my aunts).

When I was 15 I had my first panic attack,not long after I developed eye floaters, then I was diagnosed with fibromyalgia. I quit driving bc of the fibro I was so weak. But now that I have it under control I'm 26 and still can't drive. As a passenger when we come to a red-light or any stop allot of the time the road looks as if it's still moving. I have always assumed it was anxiety.

I do have an anxiety about driving but mine is the opposite. I have severe anxiety and panic when driving alone. I think my fear is something will happen to me and I wont be able to pull over, etc. Anyway, I know it is important to continue driving. It sounds like you are on the right track with trying to draw your attention away with music, etc. Perhaps trying to look at it like "so what if I get anxious...what is the worse that can happen...it will pass.

Wow this forum is really helping me, it's shocking to hear so many similar stories and experiences, When I was young I had a permit to drive with a licensed driver, I lost control of a vehicle when I hesitated in an intersection in the poring rain I slammed on the breaks in fear of not making a yellow light, I didn't cause an accident and nobody got hurt but I ended up across the street very close to a gas station pump which has scared me deeply, I was 18 and have not driven since

I am really tired of cars and dumb drivers. This is the second car accident I have been in, in a short time. Luckily the car will be fixed unlike our other car which was totaled. All this stress is giving me bad headache.

I am not a fan of the idea of self driving cars. We all know how easily our computers mess up.

OK, Today I had reason to speak with a former general practitioner and he was alarmed that I am not having any immediate follow-up of this EEG. He was surprised that I was still driving around and awaiting a second opinion at the end of November. Should I be concerned that I am having no treatment and still driving? He freaked me out a little when he said that there is apossibility of having a seizure whilst driving.

Yes!!..I hate driving in cars now..the motion and bumps of the car are pure torture because my daughter sits low on my stomach..

t figure out why, but my personal fitness trainer at the time told me something to the conclusion of,when your driving gravity is against you and it is more work on the heart to be driving a car that sitting in a chair. stopped driving for over a yr. I wear a heart monitor now, and sometimes my heart goes off, without warning and pull over. Or I don't drive at all.

I find sometimes if im in a car with people all of a sudden i get kind of dizzy and my heart beats a little slow then all of a sudden BOOM a huge thump beat, my throat gets tight, then my heart races and i NEED to get out of the car, i feel trapped. ive once actually called 911 cuz my mom wouldnt pull over because we were on the highway and i was having such a bad panic attack my hands went numb. Any advice or commetns would be awesome!! Thankyou!!

fear of HIV; of committing a hit-and-run; psychotic illness; making a catastrophic mistake; making something bad happen if I don't follow compulsions; and some other smaller ones. From onset at 18 for about six months, I had it very bad. Then, I managed it well until about two months ago. At onset when I was 18, I had some depersonalization symptoms, which have not returned. I take lexapro 10mg daily, and it really works.

I went to the ER the 2nd time this happened when I was driving and they did tons of tests..EKG, pregnancy test, CT scan, chest x-rays, and found nothing. I made an appt with my primary care physician and she thought it might be panic attacks. I have been on Zoloft for 2 weeks and seen no improvement. I started thinking they probably weren't panic attacks because this sensation occurs every time I am in a car, from the time the car is moving, to the time it stops.

s lots of issues with MS and driving. Cognitive problems, vision, reflexes - all those can add up to being an unsafe driver. When I was driving, I found that other cars were a distraction. I felt like I had to shake myself mentally every five minutes to get me to pay attention to what was in front of me. If I tried to look at the other cars, it made me feel off-balance and a little weird. Part of that was based on eye movement.

Anyone not enjoying being in a car? I dont mind driving but wen i get into town trying to reverse is impossible. I just reverse and hope i dont hit anything lol. At 37+4 this belly bounces around and isnt very comfy on country roads.

I just fear that I may have not known I hit someone (like I didn't hear it because of my loud music or the car didn't hit me but hit something else as a result of my driving) Get what I mean? So, I don't know how I could change that way of thinking even though I know the norm is "you would know". I just see the tiniest possibility of not knowing so it's really hard for me to make that decision of "I would know".

Just think as your driving along that the probability of you passing someone else who is driving with panic attacks is pretty high. You are not alone. God Bless.

You are not actually fearful of driving or travelling itself, but rather the fear of losing control if you have another panic attack. This is because when we have a panic attack, the first thing we want to do is to retreat to our "safe place", which for most people is our home. The further away from our comfort zone, the more uncomfortable we feel.

However, since I had my second child (a BEAUTIFUL boy) those trips - both long and short- have had to stop. I have very suddenly developed a fear of riding in cars that I have never experienced before. I look at those two beautiful children in the backseat and am paralyzed with fear at something happening to them in an accident. The odd thing is that my husband is a wonderful driver who has never been in a single accident or even gotten a ticket.

The driver is the one who decided, not the couple. I assume the boy was driving, because his girlfriend was not of age. He is the one to be mad at, and to individually call out for being a bad driver. I am sorry you were in an accident, but blaming it on all kids ignores the fact that bad drivers come in all ages. Around where I live, I would say farm workers should not have driver's licenses, for how oddly they drive in tractors.

I also believe whether or not they took drivers education they should still have to take the driving portion of the test. But I would also like to see something done about others that shouldn't be driving as well.

After that she sat in the center while we both walked around for a while-that led to each of us driving our own cars and walking the entire center by ourselves. We always knew where the therapist would be in case we felt we needed her. It's called de-sensitizing yourself to your surroundings. I am now alive today because of that therapist. Once in a great while I still feel the need to "get out" but tell myself it will pass.

It has been 8 weeks today since surgery, Dr B said I could drive but, never had the courage till this morning, I got up determined that I was going to do this on my own!!!! I had a doctors app. For the EMG test, ( just to make sure there was no never damage) ...doctors office was not from my home so I drove , most of the driving was just looking straite so it wasn't that bad especially having to where the neck brace!!

I can relate, after a horrible wreck in 2009 , riding with my husband and ANYONE is a huge challenge. I would discuss the extent of fear it puts within you to better help him understand that your not simply uncomfortable, yet frozen in fear to simply compare the difference of the effect it is taking on you.

what kind of car would you be ? I want to be something fast...convertible...flashy.....Saab convertible....lol this should get some fun responses.

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