Anxiety Support Group
Anxiety is a physical condition marked by intense and persistent feelings of distress, fear, angst or dread. General anxiety caused by routine day-to-day stresses usually passes quickly and is experienced by almost everyone at one time or another. However, such feelings that linger over time and are very difficult to cope with, and which lack a clear cause, may indicate...
I am noticing a pattern that whenever I am driving my anxiety attacks are worse. I start to get short of breath and breathing funny. Im pulling at my hair constantly. Legs shaking! When I get stuck in traffic or stuck at
a light it gets worse. I am really irrabtable and ansy when im in the car. Once I step on the gas it subsides but will not go away until I am home. Then I can calm down. Its also that feeling that you are alone in the car and what if something happens. This is really hard right now I dont even want to go anywhere. I try to control it with breathing but it doesnt work. I can take a zanex but it will not work right at that moment. It sometimes feels like something is smothering me then I start to breath really fast.. I hate this and I just want to feel better. I saw my therapist yesterday and I have an appointment with a psychiatrist next week. I cant live like this anymore! :(
a light it gets worse. I am really irrabtable and ansy when im in the car. Once I step on the gas it subsides but will not go away until I am home. Then I can calm down. Its also that feeling that you are alone in the car and what if something happens. This is really hard right now I dont even want to go anywhere. I try to control it with breathing but it doesnt work. I can take a zanex but it will not work right at that moment. It sometimes feels like something is smothering me then I start to breath really fast.. I hate this and I just want to feel better. I saw my therapist yesterday and I have an appointment with a psychiatrist next week. I cant live like this anymore! :(
I went through this... many times I would close my eyes when going on certain roads or over bridges. I was the worst passenger ever. I attempted to do some CBT and it didn't seem to help. 4 years ago, my husband who is a truck driver said pack-up, youre going with me. 3 weeks on an eighteen wheeler and I couldnt even deal with riding down certain roads or over certain bridges.... before we made it out of town I was yelling slow down, etc. A trip to Chicago, I was in the sleeper, curtains closed having a panic attack. Snow in Memphis, grabbing the handle on the door so tight my knuckles were white. It eventually vanished. Ended up spending 3 1/2 years out there on the road. I remember thinking at one time, I'll never go to California... I won't fly, I won't float and there's no way I'll make it in a car. I wanna see Philadelphia but I'll never make it, I have no way to get there. 4 years later, I've been everywhere except Maine, Vermont, Washinton, Oregon, Idaho, Hawaii and Alaska. You can overcome it.