Ashley, I was reading a news article about a woman with panic disorder who ran over a man and killed him but didn't know what's going on cos she was having a panic attack. Now, I definitely don't want to drive.
Thanks. If I got my hands on it I'd read it in its entirety.
I tried looking at Brain and Behavior Research Foundation. They talk about current studies they're doing and from that I can piece some things together, but yes it is a LOT.
Yeah I calmed down from it because I reread it and it said she was driving backwards. No panic attack would make you drive backwards. She was in a parking lot (car park) and decided to drive backwards probably because she is a moron, so panic attack or not, she killed the guy because she was driving improperly. I feel bad for the man being dead and for her living with that guilt for life.
I will tell you my biggest fear is getting a panic attack when I am driving because I get very dizzy and I don't want to severely injure or God forbid kill myself or someone else. I have this fear I'll get an attack, become very dizzy, accidentally kill someone because I didn't pull over as quickly as I wanted, and the judge will go yeah yeah whatever and I'll end up in prison for life or the majority of my life..... That and the fact I become petrified. I wish brains were like cars, cos I'm ready to trade in for a new one (brain).
Due to a driving phobia/agoraphobia it's been very difficult for me to hold down a job. Now, I loved the last job I had even though it lasted less than a week and it wasn't my fault or my phobia that made it not last. But now my parents are saying they refuse to drive me to a workplace and I am supposed to start job shadowing in another town nowhere close in early November which is coming up. I live with my parents for 6 months and on my own for 6 months. During the winter 6 months I go out with my neighbour when I need to go out. If my parents found that out I am 100% sure they'd tell her to stop helping me. They are very concerned that I won't be able to survive on my own in the winter hence why they are forcing me to go to the library and get a daily written statement or take out a book and if that doesn't work they'll keep pressuring me to go to the store and get pizza dough or what have you like they have been all summer and autumn.
I am 30. I was more independent at 18 and 19 then now at 30 because of the condition. I have tried many forms of therapy with people saying it will work and it will cure you to no avail. The medicine seems to only help somewhat but not with my driving phobia. I am being harshly judged for being 30 and living with my parents half of the year including by people who claim they had a driving phobia but I am starting to believe they really did not or had a mild case of it. I can't live on my own, as much as I want to, I can't afford it. And my parents are more concerned with their image and the image of me in others' minds and I can barely afford therapy I pay for it off of a credit card when I really need it (and I need it a lot more than I pay for it).
My reasoning for my driving phobia is thinking I will have an anxiety attack when driving. I have tried emdr, cbt therapy, hypnosis, etc How do I convince my brain it's not going to happen when I am driving? And also what are sme root causes that make us have a driving fear and how do I get over them?
Listen to a lot of hypnosis before going out, realise a lot of anxiety is rumination and once you do something it's not as bad as you thought, tell yourself you get a treat when home if you accomplish your goal, go out at least 5/7 days.
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