massive anxiety when in a car?
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Hunny~ I advise you seek counseling of some sort. Your experiencing a form of post traumatic stress from your recent car accidents. You will need to have a professional who can help you confront and eventually overcome these issues. Obviously for now I don't recommend driving anywhere alone if possible always try to have someone with you and better yet make sure they're driving! I really hope you seek help I don't want an unfortunate incident like that controlling your life. Best Wishes
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YOu need to consciously retrain your internal voice that talks to you in your brain. For instance you get nervous on the freeway. Instead of thinking about horrible accedents, Put positive words in your mind like....'"I am a good driver, I drive defensivly, I haven't ever been in an accident. I make good choices when I drive here. I have driven on this freeway for years and nothing has happeded and if it does I trust my driving abiliitirs"\n\nYou gotta change your internal dialog and give yourself a break. Eventually you will drive the freeway, carfully and not with such fear.\n\nThe greatest thing in fear is fear itself.\n\nYou have the ability to change yourself and your attitude about things.
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I was trapped for 16 1/2 hr in a car on the collapsed freeway. I lost my mother, and it was the most emotionaly scary event I have ever been in.
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I'm making a guess here, but you may be suffering from a form of panic attack syndrome.  It's been my experience that with PAS, people will oftentimes develop an irrational fear that springs from one identifiable event (or not so easily identifiable) that hits them with such force  that from then on, a feeling of dread comes over them each time they find themselves in a similar situation.  I had a friend who would clutch every time they were driving, but only when they went over a long bridge.  Another person I knew, who couldn't have been a more loving mom, had a thought once of picking up scissors and doing something to her child. She was mortified, but now can't completely get the offending thought out of her mind.  Is this what you're experiencing with driving.  If so, think seriously about this question:  was there a defining moment when you were driving or thinking about driving that this thought of killing someone or getting killed yourself "swept" over you?  I've discovered with PAS, that you might have had similar thoughts before and easily dismissed them, but at a particularly vulnerable point the same thought has much greater sway over you, and is frightening at that point.  What makes it frightening is that along with the thought comes the PANIC ATTACK or sense of dread, and we react to the instigating thought in a much more fearful way because of the sensation of panic that attends the thought.  Why it becomes difficult is that we often lose sight of the initial moment when this PANIC(or dread) first hit us, and especially fail to notice that we may have been uniquely (for us) vulnerable at that moment due to prior lack of sleep, excess caffeine intake, outside stress, painful life events, etc. Hope this wasn't too rambling an answer, but the things that best helped me were 1) letting the "feeling" that comes along with the fear wash over me rather that fighting it or trying to shut it off - it loses its sting that way, or 2) the proper antidepressant.
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You may have a more serious anxiety problem. Speak to your doctor about it.
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before i was pregnant, i had panic attacks, and anxiety while driving, and it got worse when i was pregnant. so much worse that while i was driving i would black out. so i went to see a dr. about it and he said that it was normal but he prescribed me paxil, to calm me down, it seemed to work, but not right away. go see a psychiatrist. he may be able to help you.
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Oddly, I never had one prior to 9-11.  Now flying creeps me out.  I got a script for aniexty, which helps, but basically makes me sleep in long flights.  Outside of that, I found traveling with someone I trust (my husband) who could talk me through the scariest bits helps.  I still get a bit wonky on flights, but I've studied the safety of flying, and still take my trusted partner with me to talk me through it.\n\nIt's really scary, but it is one of those things that you have to face from time to time.  If it's really out of control, get some anti-anxiety meds.
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Yes..I have major anxiety and that always happens 2 me....
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rd,\n\nIf you were older, I'd recommend you take a valium and a few glasses of wine and just chill.\n\nWhen you are in your 20s and you and your bf/maybe even husband are driving for 8 hours in a car, there will be HOURS of silence, let alone 5 minutes.  This is why we have radios and CD players...so old couples don't have to listen to the drone of the car engine.\n\nIt is what we call "comfortable silence." And it is okay.  Regarding the "he said, she said."  Don't tell anybody anything you don't want to have out in public.\n\nWell, good luck with your soap opera.  Oh, yeah...in 2 months you won't care a bit about this episode that is totally consuming you right now.  It will pass.  In 6 months you will be embarassed, not at anything that happened, or that maybe you were "outed", but that you got so wound up over nothing.
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ya actually yesterday i was driving w/ the bf and his son and friend, and were dropping his son off and this guy almost crashed into us in the appt. complex driveway and i yelled WTF! so loud with these 2 kids in the back seat. i sometimes do that when im at walmart or some othewr trashy store where the customers are the worst drivers. i felt real bad but i guess that happens
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i am extremely claustraphobic. fear of confined spaces. its so bad that even hearing about people in spaces make me queesy.. my boyfriend came home from work yesterday telling me about him having to crawl 50ft under a house in a crwl space the was less that 2 feet high and i started to hyperventalate.
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Ask your dad what his major concerns are about you driving by yourself. then try to figure out how to allevate them.\n\nmost parents are scared that teens will have a lot of friends in the car ,or fiddle with their phones and music so much that they will get distracted and into an accident.\n\nask for rules or a contract say these are the rules and i break them theni lose my driving privliges. \nfor example i will not drive with more than _ people in the car or i will not drive more than 10mi over the speed limit or i will only drive to school, work, friends house or whatever.  just let him know you are willing to be responsible.\n\ntalk to some adults your dad is friends with who have teenagers that are allowed to drive and see if they will talk to him for you.\n\nalso don't go in there with an attitude.  driving is a privlige.  your parents or the state can take it away when they wish if you break their rules.
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Lots of "Breathe Deeply" exercises...And have someone else drive---That driving can raise your blood pressure even higher!
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I can only go by my own experiences, and I would argure there must be.  When I used to live by an airport , I got used to some of it but I had to stop a conversation until the plane passed.  It would set me off into an impatient feeling and I would not want to talk any more.  \n\nBeing in traffic can make one very snappy--it takes a couple hours to come down from that--so have it be in your back yard--do you ever come down? The sound of the cars and even the lights.  It's got to add stress.  \n\nMy guess is that there is a higher BP in the city rural or burbs.
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Worry about driving lessons, or staying focused on DRIVING!
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I am standing here terrified I can't move I can hardly breath, were on the highest ride in North America the SCREAM to death I'm going to fall of the ride oh my god HELP.......\nAhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhh were as fast as 3 racing cars together I feel like my face is going to fly of my body,I feel like I'm gonna turn into nothing. \nThen the ride stopped.
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sounds like an anxiety/panic attack